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Cédric Fauré
Personal information
Date of birth (1979-02-14) 14 February 1979 (age 45)
Place of birth Toulouse, France
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
Union Namur (manager)
Youth career
2001–2002 Toulouse
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002–2004 Toulouse 72 (30)
2004–2005 Guingamp 32 (13)
2005–2006 Istres 21 (6)
2006Le Mans (loan) 14 (2)
2006–2008 Reims 72 (31)
2008 Le Havre 10 (1)
2009–2012 Reims 84 (27)
2012–2014 Guingamp 33 (4)
2014–2015 Charleroi 49 (14)
2015 Union SG 18 (11)
2016 Antwerp 8 (1)
2016–2017 Union SG 15 (1)
Total 428 (141)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Cédric Fauré (born 14 February 1979) is a French former professional footballer who played as a striker.[1] He is manager of Belgian club Union Namur.[2]

Playing career

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Born in Toulouse and raised in the Haute-Garonne village Miremont, Fauré played amateur football and worked for a consumer electronics company before making his professional debut with Toulouse FC in 2002.[3] In his first season, he scored 20 goals which made him Ligue 2 top scorer, helping his club win the league and achieve promotion to Ligue 1.[4] The next season, despite not playing very often, he still managed to score 10 goals.

He then transferred to En Avant de Guingamp, hoping to get more playing time. At Guingamp, he scored 13 goals in 32 league games in his only season there.

He moved to FC Istres and, six months later, was loaned to Le Mans where he remained Brazilian striker Grafite's substitute.

in the summer 2006, he signed with Stade de Reims.[5] He settled quickly and his numerous goals made him a fans' favourite.

After the club's failure to achieve promotion to Ligue 1, he announces he his departure for Le Havre, recently promoted to Ligue 1, in April 2008.

On 19 December 2008, Fauré returned to Reims. The club was relegated to third-tier National in May 2009. In his second stint at Reims, he achieved two promotions in three years. During the season 2009–10, he finished top scorer of National. Two years later, he became Ligue 2 top scorer for the second time, scoring 15 goals and helping the club from Champagne achieve promotion to Ligue 1, for the first time since 1979. Over the summer 2012, his contract expired and no agreement was found with the management of Reims.

Fauré returned to Guingamp, still in Ligue 2 at that time, for a second spell. The following season, he contributed 4 goals in 29 games to the promotion of the Breton club to the Ligue 1, which had been absent from the division since 2004. However, in the top-flight, he was excluded from a regular first-team place and on 31 January 2014, moved to Belgian side Sporting Charleroi on a six-month loan deal.[6]

In summer 2015, Fauré joined another Belgian side, Union SG.[7]

He retired in the summer 2017.[8]

Managerial career

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In 2020, Cédric Fauré starts is career as a trainer in Haute-Garonne in AS Tournefeuille.[9]

In 2022, after a short period coaching FC Mulhouse in Alsace,[10] He comes back in Belgium as head coach of Union Namur in Second Amateur Division (fourth-tier of Belgian football).[11]

On 14 May 2023, Fauré brought his club promotion to Belgian National Division 1 after finishing runner-up, due to Warnant winning the title but fail obtain a licence.

Honours

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Player

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Toulouse

Manager

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Union Namur

Individual

References

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  1. ^ Cédric Fauré: J'ai des protège-tibias avec la Vierge Marie sofoot.com
  2. ^ "Cédric Fauré, nouveau coach ambitieux de l'Union Namur : "Redonner ce passé glorieux au club"". Walfoot.be (in French). 29 October 2022. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
  3. ^ Crumley, Bruce (27 April 2003). "Major player: Soccer watch". Time. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011.
  4. ^ Lepidi, Pierre (18 May 2003). "Toulouse décroche enfin son billet pour la Ligue 1". Le Monde (in French).
  5. ^ Kostoff, Marie Ange (23 July 2007). "Cédric Fauré - "Je suis heureux à Reims"" (in French). La Page des Sports. Archived from the original on 11 August 2012. Retrieved 20 January 2010.
  6. ^ "Cedric Fauré est zèbre" (in French). Sporting de Charleroi. 31 January 2014.
  7. ^ "Cédric Fauré quitte Charleroi pour l'Union Saint-Gilloise". 26 June 2015.
  8. ^ Cédric Fauré prend sa retraite‚ lequipe.fr, 19 May 2017
  9. ^ "Football : Tournefeuille ne doit pas se rater". ladepeche.fr (in French). Retrieved 22 February 2023.
  10. ^ Sougey, Frédéric (9 February 2022). "National 3. L'ancien attaquant Cédric Fauré prend la tête de Mulhouse". Foot Amateur (in French). Retrieved 22 February 2023.
  11. ^ B.J. "Union Namur (D2 ACFF): Cédric Fauré et son staff bientôt reconduits". lavenir.net (in French). Retrieved 22 February 2023.
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