Volker Finke

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Volker Finke
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Finke as coach of SC Freiburg (2006)
Personnel
birthday March 24, 1948
place of birth Nienburg / Weser ,  Germany
position midfield player
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1969 TSV Havelse
1969-1974 Hannoverscher SC
1974– TSV Stelingen
TSV Berenbostel
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1974-1986 TSV Stelingen
1986-1990 TSV Havelse
1990-1991 1. SC Norderstedt
1991-2007 Sc freiburg
2009-2010 Urawa Red Diamonds
2011 1. FC Cologne (interim)
2013-2015 Cameroon
1 Only league games are given.

Volker Finke (born March 24, 1948 in Nienburg / Weser ) is a German football coach . He coached SC Freiburg for 16 years without a break , making him the record holder in German professional football. His last coaching position was that of the national coach of Cameroon .

job

After graduating from high school, Finke served in the German Armed Forces for three years , completed officer training and ended his service as a lieutenant in Artillery Regiment 4 in 1969 . After studying Finke to 1990 teacher for sports , social studies and history at the Albert Schweitzer School in Nienburg / Weser .

Player career

Finke's first position as a player was TSV Havelse until 1969 . He then moved to Hannoversche SC , where he was active until 1974, most recently in the third-class Lower Saxony state league .

Coaching career

In 1968 Finke was a licensed instructor for table tennis; he trained the table tennis youth department of SV Wacker Osterwald.

TSV Stelingen

In 1974 Finke moved to TSV Stelingen as a player- coach in the 1st district class. He led the club with five promotions up to the state league (1984, then 5th division).

TSV Havelse

In 1986 Finke returned to TSV Havelse, for whom he had previously played actively, as a coach in the Oberliga Nord . Four years later he led the team to the greatest success in the club's history, promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga .

In October 1990 (the TSV Havelse occupied a relegation place), he took leave of his own accord because he was "no longer able to motivate the TSV team". The background was disputes with the club's management and the interest of local rivals Hannover 96 in engaging Finke as a coach. Since TSV Havelse Finke initially only took a leave of absence and threatened to take legal action against a contract signed by Finke at Hannover 96, Finke terminated his contract without notice because he was publicly offended by the Havels board. Finke achieved the dissolution of his contract, but the presidium and board of directors of Hannover 96 decided in favor of Michael Lorkowski from 1. SC Norderstedt . Finke then took over the coaching position of Lorkowski in Norderstedt.

Sc freiburg

After a season at 1. SC Norderstedt in the Oberliga Nord , the then president of the second division SC Freiburg , Achim Stocker , became aware of Finke. On July 1, In 1991, Finke to Freiburg in the 2. Bundesliga and managed by SC 1993 , 1998 and 2003 each promotion to the 1. Bundesliga and in 1995 and 2001 to qualify for the UEFA Cup .

In the 2005/06 season he narrowly missed promotion to the Bundesliga with SC Freiburg in fourth. After a less successful first half of the season, Finke and SC Freiburg announced on December 14, 2006 that Finke would leave the club after 16 years at the end of the season. With a subsequent winning streak (best team in the second half of the season), fourth place was achieved in the end, and the promotion was only just missed. This gave Finkes fans and supporters a boost, some of whom organized themselves into a movement called “We are Finke”. She tried to force an extraordinary general meeting to discuss the coaching issue and to urge the board to give in to keep Finke in Freiburg. The request failed, however, because instead of the 25% of club members required by the SC Freiburg statutes, only about 15% applied for an extraordinary general meeting. Finke's successor was Robin Dutt .

At the age of 16, during which he continuously coached the same club, Finke is the record holder in German professional football. He is also the only coach in German professional football who has been promoted and relegated three times during a continuous engagement with a club.

Urawa Red Diamonds

As the successor to his sacked compatriot Gert Engels , Finke was coach of Urawa Red Diamonds from the Japanese J. League for the 2009 season. Finke, who received a two-year contract, brought his Freiburg assistant coach Karsten Neitzel and Ibrahim Tanko into the assistant staff .

In his first season he finished sixth in the league with the Red Diamonds .

When the club was in ninth place in the table on the penultimate match day, the club's management announced at the end of November 2010 that it would not extend the contract with Finke, which expired at the end of 2010.

Cameroon national football team

From May 2013, Finke was the coach of the Cameroon national football team . Under him, the team qualified for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. In the tournament itself, however, the team was eliminated after three defeats against Mexico, Croatia and Brazil. He was released on October 30, 2015.

Career as a manager

1. FC Cologne

On December 18, 2010, 1. FC Köln announced that Finke was hired to succeed Michael Meier , who was dismissed in November . Finke took over the newly created post of sports director at FC on February 1, 2011 and was contractually bound to the club until summer 2013. After the surprising resignation of the coach Frank Schaefer on April 27, 2011, Finke also took over the sporting management of the team until the end of the season. The team won the remaining three games and thus secured relegation. Finke was able to win Ståle Solbakken as a new coach. On March 10, 2012, Finke's contract was terminated by mutual agreement. The reason given for this was that the club had different views on the course in football.

Awards

Television commentator

During the EM 2008 , Finke commented on some games on Swiss television together with Bernard Thurnheer .

Movie

  • 1994 Volker Finke, soccer coach in Freiburg , Nikofilm, director: Matthias Keilich

Web links

Commons : Volker Finke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage of SV Wacker Osterwald
  2. ↑ a b Kicker Sportmagazin No. 84 of October 15, 1990, p. 50
  3. ↑ Kicker Sportmagazin No. 83 of October 11, 1990, p. 19 ff.
  4. ↑ Kicker Sportmagazin No. 85 of October 18, 1990, p. 20
  5. ↑ Going a separate way from Team Manager Finke. Urawa Red Diamonds, November 29, 2010, accessed April 6, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Finke new Cameroon trainer ( memento of the original from February 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: transfermarkt.de, from May 23, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.transfermarkt.de
  7. ↑ Volker Finke makes comeback to the Bundesliga . Kicker. December 18, 2010. Retrieved December 20, 2010.
  8. ↑ Schaefer resigns, Finke takes over
  9. ↑ "I was the bad guy" , faz.net, March 11, 2012
  10. ↑ BZ editorial team: DFB honors Volker Finke for his life's work. Badische Zeitung, March 28, 2019, accessed on March 29, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Finke, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer coach and manager
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Nienburg / Weser , Germany