Friedhelm Funkel

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Friedhelm Funkel
Friedhelm-Funkel-2016-07.jpg
Friedhelm Funkel (2016)
Personnel
birthday December 10, 1953
place of birth Neuss ,  Germany
size 181 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
1964-1973 VfR Neuss
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1973 VfR Neuss 28 (15)
1973-1980 FC Bayer 05 Uerdingen 216 (85)
1980-1983 1. FC Kaiserslautern 66 (24)
1983-1990 FC Bayer 05 Uerdingen 189 (40)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1981 Germany B 4 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1989-1990 VfR Neuss
1990-1991 FC Bayer 05 Uerdingen ( assistant coach )
1991-1996 FC Bayer 05 Uerdingen / KFC Uerdingen 05
1996-2000 MSV Duisburg
2000-2001 Hansa Rostock
2002-2003 1. FC Cologne
2004-2009 Eintracht Frankfurt
2009-2010 Hertha BSC
2010-2011 VfL Bochum
2011–2012 Alemannia Aachen
2013-2014 TSV 1860 Munich
2016-2020 Fortuna Dusseldorf
1 Only league games are given.

Friedhelm Funkel (born December 10, 1953 in Neuss ) is a former German soccer coach and player .

Playing career (1973 to 1990)

After training as a wholesaler, Funkel began his playing career in the 1973/74 season at the age of 19 at the Krefeld club Bayer 05 Uerdingen (now KFC Uerdingen 05 ). The goal- scoring midfielder played for 1. FC Kaiserslautern between 1980 and 1983 before moving back to Krefeld. After 320 Bundesliga games in which he scored 83 goals, he ended his career in Uerdingen in May 1990. His 254 games and 59 goals for Bayer Uerdingen mean the Bundesliga record for Krefeld to this day. He also played 152 games for Uerdingen in 1974/75 and from 1976 to 1979 in the 2nd Bundesliga North, scoring 66 goals.

His greatest success as a player was winning the 1985 DFB Cup with FC Bayer 05 Uerdingen by beating FC Bayern Munich 2-1 .

Between March 31 (1-0 against the Soviet Union in Kassel ) and September 22, 1981 (1-0 against Luxembourg in Luxembourg ), he played four international matches for the national B team , including on May 21 in Bremen at the 3 : 0 win against Ireland's A selection to score his only international goal.

Success as a player

National

International

Coaching career (1990 to 2020)

In his spare time as a player for Bayer 05 Uerdingen, Funkel trained his former youth club VfR Neuss in the then NRW regional league in the 1989/90 season .

At the end of the 1990/1991 season he took over the post of head coach at Bundesliga club Uerdingen for the two remaining games of the season. With the Krefeld team he was relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga in 1991, 1993 and 1996, and twice with his teams he was immediately promoted again (1992, 1994). After relegation in 1996, he moved to the second division MSV Duisburg .

On April 8, 1996, he began working in Duisburg as the successor to Hannes Bongartz . Shortly afterwards, Funkel rose to the 1st Bundesliga with MSV , where he was relegated three times in a row (with single-digit table positions) with his players. In 1998 his team reached the final of the DFB Cup, which was lost 2-1 to Bayern Munich. The 1999/2000 season was not satisfactory; when his team was last in the table, he was given leave of absence on March 24, 2000.

On September 19, 2000, Funkel took over the former Bundesliga club Hansa Rostock on a relegation zone. The team he trained managed to keep the class three game days before the end of the season. For the 2001/02 season, his younger brother Wolfgang Funkel was hired as an assistant coach, after a few weak games on December 1, 2001 released again.

On February 14, 2002 Friedhelm Funkel was coach at the first division club 1. FC Köln . Despite a good record (no home defeat) Friedhelm Funkel could not save Cologne from relegation to the 2nd Bundesliga. In the 2002/03 season he was immediately promoted again. In the 2003/2004 season, Friedhelm Funkel was dismissed on October 30, 2003 after a weak start to the season (7 points after 10 match days).

At the beginning of the 2004/2005 season, Funkel took over the team from Eintracht Frankfurt after relegation to the 2nd Bundesliga ; In 2005 he was promoted to the 1st Bundesliga with a young team. The season ended in 14th place in the 1st Bundesliga. Eintracht Frankfurt moved into the final of the DFB Cup, which they lost against Bayern Munich 1-0. For Funkel this game was the second final in his coaching career after 1998 (with MSV Duisburg), and back then the opponent was Bayern Munich. As Bayern qualified as German champions directly for the Champions League, Frankfurt started in the UEFA Cup in the 2006/07 season. Despite good performances, they did not survive the group stage. In 2006/2007 they again managed to stay in the 1st Bundesliga (14th place) and the semi-finals in the DFB Cup. The 2007/2008 season ended in 9th place.

After parts of the public repeatedly criticized Funkel's work in the final phase of the 2008/09 Bundesliga season due to the unsatisfactory sporting results and viewers at home games verbally demanded his dismissal, Funkel asked the club management for one before the last game of the season early termination of the contract, which was actually limited to June 30, 2010. The association complied with Funkel's request.

On October 3, 2009, Funkel became a coach at Hertha BSC . He succeeded the recently released Lucien Favre . In May 2010, the club, relegated from the bottom of the table, announced that Funkel's contract, which was running out at the end of the season, would not be extended.

For the 2010/11 season , Funkel was coach of the Bundesliga relegated VfL Bochum . The team reached third place in the table under Funkel and thus the relegation games to the 1st Bundesliga, in which they failed at Borussia Mönchengladbach . Funkel was given leave of absence on September 14, 2011 in the current season. Four competitive games in a row were lost and Bochum was in 17th place in the table after seven match days.

Five days after his release from VfL Bochum, Funkel took over the position of head coach at Alemannia Aachen on September 19, 2011 and received a contract that ran until 2013. After five defeats in a row and the relapse to a direct relegation place, the Funkel club took a leave of absence on April 1, 2012.

From September 2013 Funkel was the trainer of TSV 1860 Munich. After the club and Funkel announced the separation at the end of the season in March 2014, Funkel was released early in April after a 3-0 home defeat against Karlsruher SC. He was succeeded by Markus von Ahlen .

In mid-March 2016, Funkel succeeded Marco Kurz as head coach of the then second division team Fortuna Düsseldorf . On April 28, 2018, he made it to the first Bundesliga with the Düsseldorf team. During the winter break of the 2018/19 season , Funkel refused to negotiate a possible contract extension until after the end of the season in May 2019, and announced that he would no longer be head coach for Fortuna afterwards. In January 2019, the club then announced that it would extend Funkel's contract until June 30, 2020, should the team achieve relegation. Fortuna finally ended the season under Funkel in 10th place.

In December 2019, the contract with Funkel was extended to June 30, 2021 on condition that Fortuna achieved relegation.

“I have repeatedly emphasized how dear to my heart this club has grown. So it makes me proud that the successful path we have taken in recent years will continue after this season. It’s not only after the emotional home win against Union Berlin that I’m sure that we can keep the class. "

- Friedhelm Funkel on December 22, 2019

On January 29, 2020, the association announced the separation from Funkel. His successor was Uwe Rösler . Funkel then reiterated his earlier announcement that his coaching career was over.

Friedhelm Funkel (2012)

Successes and records as a coach

Friedhelm Funkel is the only coach in German football who has been promoted to the first division six times with a second division team. Funkel is considered the most successful second division coach.

In May 2011, Funkel had more than 1100 appearances as a player and coach in the first and second Bundesliga. This makes him the record holder in German professional football. In October 2019, Funkel played his 500th Bundesliga game as a coach against Hertha BSC. In July 2019, Kicker voted for football coach of the year , and Funkel finished second behind Jürgen Klopp (Liverpool FC) and was the best-placed Bundesliga coach . In the 2018/19 season and the 2019/20 season , Funkel was the oldest Bundesliga coach . On January 28, 2020, Funkel was voted Coach of the Year 2019 for the city of Düsseldorf .

Promotion to the Bundesliga

DFB Cup finalist

  • 1998 with MSV Duisburg
  • 2006 with Eintracht Frankfurt

Private

Funkel has been married to Anja Funkel (née Stapel) for the second time since June 11, 2017. He has two grown daughters from his first marriage and lives with his wife in Krefeld. His brother Wolfgang Funkel is also a soccer coach and former professional soccer player. In the 1980s both brothers played together at Bayer Uerdingen.

Web links

Commons : Friedhelm Funkel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes and individual references

  1. ↑ Mission data only from the season 1972/73
  2. ↑ 18 years of professional trainer - a chronicle from Neuss to Frankfurt am Main at tagesspiegel.de
  3. ^ Trainer history at Neuss
  4. ↑ www.transfermarkt.de
  5. ↑ www.transfermarkt.de
  6. ↑ Friedhelm Funkel leaves unity ( Memento from April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Friedhelm Funkel becomes the new Hertha coach
  8. ↑ Hertha BSC is relegated from the Bundesliga
  9. ^ No twinkle into the new season ( Memento from May 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ^ Funkel new Bochum coach ( memento from May 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 21, 2010
  11. ↑ goal.com
  12. ↑ Friedhelm Funkel new head coach at Alemannia - contract until 2013
  13. ↑ Funkel is on leave, Aussem takes over
  14. ↑ 2nd Bundesliga: 1860 Munich confirms Funkel as the new coach
  15. ↑ Friedhelm Funkel and the lions go their separate ways ( Memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ 1860 releases head coach Funkel ( memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  17. ↑ Friedhelm Funkel new head coach on f95.de from March 14, 2016, accessed on March 14, 2016
  18. ↑ No agreement on a contract extension in the training camp , f95.de, accessed on January 12, 2019
  19. ↑ Fortuna and Friedhelm Funkel agree on contract extension , f95.de, accessed on January 16, 2019
  20. ↑ https://www.bild.de/sport/fussball/fussball/fortuna-duesseldorf-neuer-vertrag-fuer-gefeuerten-friedhelm-funkel-68555898.bild.html
  21. ↑ https://www.express.de/sport/fussball/fortuna-duesseldorf/angebote-vor-heiligabend-fix--fortuna-idol-unterschreiben-neuen-vertrag-33653590
  22. ↑ Fortuna fires sparkles. January 29, 2020, accessed January 29, 2020 .
  23. ↑ kicker.de: Funkel announces the end of his career. January 29, 2020, accessed January 29, 2020 .
  24. ↑ https://www.sport1.de/fussball/bundesliga/2018/12/friedhelm-funkel-wird-65-rekordaufsteiger-und-aeltester-aktiver-bundesliga-trainer
  25. ↑ https://www.welt.de/sport/fussball/article205420311/Fortuna-Duesseldorf-Friedhelm-Funkels-pikantes-Aus.html
  26. ↑ https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/duesseldorf/sport/fortuna-duesseldorf-friedhelm-funkel-ist-duesseldorfs-trainer-des-jahres_aid-48601555
  27. ↑ https://www.sportschau.de/fussball/bundesliga/friedhelm-funkel-vor-dem-fuenfhundsten-buli-spiel-100.html
  28. ↑ Jürgen Klopp is Trainer of the Year 2019. kicker.de, July 28, 2019, accessed on August 12, 2019 .
  29. ↑ RP ONLINE: Fortuna Düsseldorf: Funkel married his Anja. Retrieved January 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Sparkle, Friedhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuss