Steeve Joseph-Reinette (born 2 December 1983) is a retired French

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defender.

Club career

Born in Paris, France, Steeve Joseph-Reinette signed his first professional footballing contract with French

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club

Guingamp Guingamp (; ) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in northwestern France. With a population of 6,895 as of 2017, Guingamp is one of the smallest towns in Europe to have a top-tier professional football team: En Avant Guinga ...

, the club that has boasted stars such as

Vincent Candela Vincent Philippe Antoine Candela (born 24 October 1973) is a French former professional footballer. With the French national team, Candela won the 1998 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2000. Early life Candela was born in Bédarieux, Hérault. Clu ...

Florent Malouda Florent Johan Malouda (born 13 June 1980) is a French football coach and former professional player. A left winger, he spent most of his career at Lyon and Chelsea, winning four consecutive Ligue 1 titles with the former and the UEFA Champions ...

and

Didier Drogba Didier Yves Drogba Tébily (; born 11 March 1978) is an Ivorian retired professional footballer who played as a striker. He is the all-time top scorer and former captain of the Ivory Coast national team. He is best known for his career at ...

, where he went on to make just 27 appearances in five seasons, he then moved on to Italian

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club

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in 2007–2008 season where he showed much improvement by appearing in 38 matches in 2 season, he then moved to a Romanian division 2 club CSM Ploiești. On 2 August 2009, Reinette signed for two years with Bulgarian

Slavia Sofia PFC Slavia Sofia ( bg, ПФК Славия София) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which currently competes in the top tier of the Bulgarian football league system, the First League. Slavia's home ground ...

. After a brief loan spell with Sibir Novosibirsk, in January 2011, Reinette put pen to paper to a 2.5-year contract with another Russian side -

Krylia Sovetov Samara PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara (russian: Профессиональный футбольный клуб «Крылья Советов» Самара) is a football club from Russia based in Samara. It returned to the Russian Premier League for the 20 ...

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