Engin Fırat

Engin Fırat
Personnel
Surname	Engin Fırat
birthday	June 11, 1970
place of birth	Istanbul ,  Turkey
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1997-1998	Samsunspor (assistant trainer)
1998-1999	Antalyaspor (assistant coach)
2000-2002	Eintracht Frankfurt (coaching staff)
2002-2003	Fenerbahçe Istanbul (assistant coach)
2003	LR Ahlen (assistant trainer)
2004	Incheon United (assistant coach)
2005-2006	Sivasspor (assistant coach)
2006-2007	Saipa Tehran (assistant coach)
2007	Kayserispor (assistant coach)
2008	Iran (assistant coach)
2008-2009	Sepahan Isfahan
2011	Gostaresh Foulad FC
2013-2014	Saipa Tehran
2019–	Moldova

Engin Fırat (born June 11, 1970 in Istanbul , Turkey) is a German-Turkish soccer coach. At the beginning of April 2010, Engin Firat received the “Celik Bilek Öülleri” award in Turkey for his achievements as the best Turkish coach abroad. He heads the Moldovan national football team .

Engin Firat

Coaching career

The beginnings

The German-Turkish soccer teacher Engin Fırat grew up on the East Frisian North Sea island of Norderney and lived there for almost 20 years. After completing his sports studies (teaching degree) in Osnabrück, he began his career as a professional football coach as Horst Hrubesch's assistant at the Turkish first division club Samsunspor in 1997.

As a 27-year-old he was able to assert himself in the professional football world and earn recognition from the club and players. So it happened when Samsunspor separated from Hrubesch that the continued work with Engin Fırat was never an issue and the club hired him under the new coach, the Czech Joseph Jarabinsky , as an assistant coach. At the end of the season, Samsunspor was fifth in the table.

After the season, the coaching duo accepted the offer from league rivals Antalyaspor . They finished sixth with Antalyaspor, which was the best league result in the club's history.

Between 2000 and 2002, Engin Fırat was part of the Eintracht Frankfurt assistant team under head coach Martin Andermatt .

Cooperation with Werner Lorant

Engin Fırat worked for several years as Werner Lorant's assistant coach - including in the 2002/03 season at the top Turkish club Fenerbahçe Istanbul . The duo was only just second in the league, the Champions League qualification was achieved. This season also saw the historic 6-0 victory over arch rivals Galatasaray Istanbul .

In January 2003, after the separation from Fenerbahce Istanbul, Werner Lorant was engaged by LR Ahlen for the second half of the 2nd Bundesliga to prevent the threatened relegation. Lorant took Engin Fırat back as his assistant coach. LR Ahlen finished fifth in the second round table and had nothing to do with relegation.

For three games in the second half of the season, Engin Fırat was the head coach of LR Ahlen and thus, after Mustafa Denizli , he became the only Turkish head coach in the history of the 2nd Bundesliga.

In 2004 Lorant and Fırat competed with the newly founded South Korean first division club Incheon United . For family reasons, Engin Fırat separated from FC Incheon United after the training camp.

From 2005 to 2006 Werner Lorant and Engin Fırat took over the Turkish first division promoted Sivasspor at the beginning of the season . The team was very surprisingly eighth in the final table, even though the first six home games were played in far away Istanbul. Before the start of the season, they also won the Cup of the Republic (comparable to the German league cup).

From 2006 to 2007 the coach duo signed on with the Iranian first division club Saipa Tehran . When Lorant resigned after three months despite leading the table, the club Engin Fırat offered the head coach. Fırat had convinced the people in charge of the club of his qualities in a very short time, but Fırat declined because he was loyal to his head coach. Saipa FC took the momentum from the championship lead and surprisingly became Iranian champions at the end of the season.

Shortly thereafter, Lorant and Fırat went to the Turkish first division club Kayseri Erciyesspor . After more than 30 years, the duo achieved the club's first victory against Galatasaray Istanbul in the cup. This victory paved the way for participation in the UEFA Cup. Since the entire board resigned in the middle of the season, the coaching duo also resigned.

Engagement in Iran

In March 2008, the new national coach of Iran, Ali Daei , asked Fırat to be his assistant for the Iranian national soccer team . After Fırat reached an agreement with Ali Daei and the association, he also signed as head coach of last year's runner-up in the Iranian Pro League and finalist of the AFC Champions League , Sepahan FC from Isfahan . When Ali Daei was sacked after a 2-1 defeat by Saudi Arabia on March 28, 2009, Fırat's time as assistant coach of the Iranian national team also ended. At Sepahan Isfahan he was replaced by Amir Ghalenoei after the 2008/09 season .

At the beginning of August 2011 he was hired as head coach / manager for the Azadegan League team from Gostaresh Foulad FC . In July 2013, Firat became the head coach of Saipa Tehran .

Web links

• Off. Homepage of Engin Fırat
• Engin Fırat in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Article about Fırat at newzimsituation.com (English)
• via Fırat at sporyolu.com (Turkish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ligtv.com.tr, İran'ı fethetti! ..
2. ↑ hurriyet.com, Fernbahce collaboration report
3. ↑ Kölner Stadtanzeiger from February 3, 2013: Setbacks for Mainz, Trier, Frankfurt
4. ↑ radikal.com.tr, Lorant, BB Ankara'da ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ ntvmsnbc, Sivasspor Lorant'sız çalıştı
6. ↑ persianleague.com, His assistant arrives before Lorant
7. ↑ ligtv.com.tr: Daei'nin yardımcısı Engin Fırat
8. ↑ tumgazeteler.com, İran`da bir Türk teknik director
9. ↑ the-afc.com, Fırat named as Sepahan coach
10. ↑ Firat: "I want to go to a world championship as a coach"