Marco Kurz

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Marco Kurz
MarcoKurzFCI.jpg
Marco Kurz as coach of FC Ingolstadt (2013)
Personnel
birthday May 16, 1969
place of birth Stuttgart ,  Germany
size 185 cm
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
0000-1988 SV Sillenbuch
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1988-1989 VfL Sindelfingen
1989-1990 VfB Stuttgart 1 (0)
1989-1990 VfB Stuttgart amateurs
1990-1994 1. FC Nuremberg 108 (0)
1994-1995 Borussia Dortmund 4 (0)
1995-1998 FC Schalke 04 58 (0)
1998-2004 TSV 1860 Munich 129 (5)
2004-2005 SC Pfullendorf 11 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2005-2006 SC Pfullendorf
2006-2007 TSV 1860 Munich U23
2007-2009 TSV 1860 Munich
2009–2012 1. FC Kaiserslautern
2013 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2013 FC Ingolstadt 04
2016 Fortuna Dusseldorf
2017-2019 Adelaide United
2019-2020 Melbourne Victory
1 Only league games are given.

Marco Kurz (born May 16, 1969 in Stuttgart ) is a German soccer coach and former soccer player . Most recently he was head coach of Australian A-League - franchises Melbourne Victory .

career

Career as a player

Briefly as coach of TSV 1860 Munich (2007)

Marco Kurz began his professional career in 1989 at VfB Stuttgart . After a year he switched to Bundesliga club 1. FC Nürnberg in 1990 . After the club's relegation in 1994, the defender signed with Borussia Dortmund , with whom he became German champions in 1995 under Ottmar Hitzfeld . Kurz was only used four times this season. After this championship, he became the arch-rivals FC Schalke 04 commits, with whom he coached in 1997 Huub Stevens the UEFA Cup won.

From 1998 until he was relegated to the Bundesliga in 2004, he played at TSV 1860 Munich .

Career as a coach

2004-2006: Regional League

During the winter break of the 2004/05 season, Kurz moved to SC Pfullendorf in the Regionalliga Süd . After a short time he became player-coach there and secured relegation in the regional league. In the 2005/06 season, Kurz was a full-time coach at SC Pfullendorf. In May 2006, Kurz returned to the "Löwen" and coached the TSV 1860 Munich regional league team.

2007–2012: 2nd Bundesliga

For the 2007/08 season, Kurz should have been promoted to head coach of TSV 1860. But because the club ended the employment relationship with Walter Schachner in March 2007, Kurz was declared to be primarily responsible for the first team on March 18, 2007. He was given leave of absence on February 24, 2009. Under the leadership of Kurz, the team won 18 times in 63 league games. Due to the tense financial situation of Munich in 1860, Kurz had limits on the design of the squad.

Since June 18, 2009, Kurz was the head coach of the second division club 1. FC Kaiserslautern . In its first season, the FCK managed to return to the Bundesliga . In August 2010, Kurz and the entire coaching team extended their current contracts by one year until 2012. In the first year of the Bundesliga, Kurz reached seventh place in the table with 1. FC Kaiserslautern after the team had been considered a relegation candidate by many experts at the beginning of the season.

After the eighth matchday of the 2011/12 season , 1. FC Kaiserslautern only scored five points. Kurz's contract was extended to June 30, 2013 in October 2011. On the following two match days, FCK won against FC Schalke 04 and SC Freiburg . This was followed by a series of 16 games without a win, so that Kurz was given a leave of absence on March 20, 2012.

2013–2017: short stops

From January 1, 2013, Kurz was the head coach of the first division club TSG 1899 Hoffenheim . Three months later, on April 2, 2013, he and manager Andreas Müller were released from their duties. For the 2013/14 season , Kurz took over the second division of FC Ingolstadt 04 as the successor to Tomas Oral . This commitment - the contract ran until 2016 - ended after nine match days. On September 30, 2013 he was dismissed after the seventh loss of the team and standing on the bottom of the table.

During the winter break of the 2015/16 season , Düsseldorf's Fortuna Kurz , who was threatened with relegation, signed on as head coach. There he succeeded Frank Kramer and received a contract valid until June 2017. On March 13, 2016 - after 81 days - he was given leave of absence. The team was on the relegation place of the 2nd Bundesliga after winning four points from seven games .

From 2017: Australia

A new employer was short in June 2017 Australia, following an two-year contract with the A-League - Franchise Adelaide United signed. Here he made it into the final of the FFA Cup in 2017 , which he won in 2018. In March 2019, an agreement was reached on the end of the contract due to "no common vision" at the end of the 2019 season.

For the 2019/20 season he signed a contract with league rivals Melbourne Victory . After playing 13 games, the team was 19 points behind the leaders and champions Sydney FC in mid-January 2020 and, in addition to four wins, had six defeats. As a result, MV split from Kurz and his assistant Filip Tapalović .

successes

As a player

As a trainer

Others

Marco Kurz is the son of Edgar Kurz , the former club president of the Stuttgarter Kickers .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics on www.transfermarkt.de
  2. ↑ Löwen put head coach Marco Kurz on leave ( Memento from May 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). Originally published on tsv1860.de on February 24, 2009.
  3. ↑ fck.de: FCK extended with head coach Marco Kurz
  4. ↑ fck.de: FCK extended with head coach Marco Kurz
  5. ^ 1. Bundesliga: Fixtures, table and results for the 2011/12 season on the 9th matchday . Kicker online . March 21, 2012. Retrieved March 21, 2012.
  6. ↑ Marco on short leave , homepage of 1. FC Kaiserslautern from March 20, 2012
  7. ↑ Football / Bundesliga: FCK dismisses coach Marco Kurz - Sport . March 20, 2012. Retrieved March 20, 2012.
  8. ↑ Marco Kurz is the new head coach of TSG 1899 Hoffenheim Achtzehn99.de, accessed on December 18, 2012
  9. ↑ Markus Gisdol new trainer at TSG - Andreas Müller and Marco Kurz exempted Achtzehn99.de, accessed on April 2, 2013
  10. ↑ Marco Kurz takes over the Schanzer ( Memento of the original from June 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , fcingolstadt.de, accessed on June 9, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fcingolstadt.de
  11. ↑ Ingolstadt puts Kurz in front of the door. In: kicker.de. Kicker Online, September 30, 2013, accessed September 30, 2013 .
  12. ↑ Marco Kurz new head coach. In: f95.de. Fortuna Düsseldorf , December 23, 2015, accessed on December 23, 2015 .
  13. ↑ Fortuna leaves head coach Marco Kurz f95.de on March 13, 2016, accessed on March 14, 2016
  14. ↑ adelaidenow.com.au: Adelaide United has signed German Marco Kurz as new head coach (June 16, 2017) , accessed on June 16, 2017
  15. ↑ https://www.transfermarkt.de/adelaide-verlangert-auslaufenden-vertrag-von-kurz-nicht-bdquo-keine-gemeinsame-vision-ldquo-/view/news/331980
  16. ↑ Marco Kurz excited to begin new journey with Victory. melbournevictory.com.au, July 10, 2019, accessed July 31, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Melbourne Victory parts ways with Marco Kurz , melbournevictory.com.au, accessed on January 15, 2020 (English)
  18. ↑ kicker.de: Kurz is the new president of the Kickers
personal data
SURNAME In short, Marco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart , Germany