Antoine Hey

Antoine " Tony" Hey ( born September 19, 1970 in West Berlin) is a former German football player and current coach.

Playing career

Antoine Hey grew primarily on in North Rhine-Westphalia, where his father, the football player Jonny Hey, spent most of his career. Antoine Hey played in his youth at VfB 03 Hilden and Spvg Hilden 05/ 06, before joining the 1989/90 season to Fortuna Dusseldorf in the Bundesliga. In a total of three seasons Hey competed in 49 games for the Fortuna and scored five goals. After Dusseldorf was relegated at the end of the 1991/92 season, the midfielder moved to league rivals FC Schalke 04

Here Hey came in two seasons on 19 missions, where he could not score a goal, and joined the 1993/94 season to the then second division Tennis Borussia Berlin. For the capital city Hey achieved in 27 encounters seven hits, but could not prevent the descent of the association and therefore moved within the 2nd Bundesliga for SC Fortuna Köln.

The Domstädtern Hey denied in three seasons 94 games and was able to achieve 16 goals, before joining Birmingham City in the summer of 1997 and remained there for two seasons. From England Hey 1999 returned to his home club Fortuna Dusseldorf back to the Regionalliga West / Southwest and moved a year later to the 2000/01 season to the then second division side VfL ​​Osnabrück.

This season Hey denied again 33 second division games, but was able to achieve a goal. After a six- year tenure (1 December 2001 to 30 June 2002) as an assistant coach at Wuppertal SV and two other seasons 2001/ 02 and 2002/ 03 in the Cypriot first division club Anorthosis Famagusta as well as a three-month short-term use from March to July 2003 by the English third division side Bristol City, Hey moving in 2003 to the then third division VfR Neumünster. Here he took over his players next position in the midfield also the post of coach. In May 2004, Antoine Hey was on leave from the Board of Directors because of persistent disagreements over its contractual relationships with the VfR. With the end of the 2003/ 04 Antoine Hey then ended his active career.

Coaching career

Heys first as a coach was the post of head coach at the Wuppertal SV, which he held from 1 December 2001 to 30 June 2002. The at this time still active Hey took over on 1 September 2003 VfR Neumünster in the Regionalliga Nord as player-coach the leadership of the team.

This position was held until his Hey End of career May 30, 2004, before he took over the leadership of the Lesotho national football team on 1 September 2004.

Hey is the owner of the football coach license ( UEFA Pro Licence) and the English FA Coaching Certificate. He is a trainer trainers UEFA for English - speaking countries of the African continent.

After a 15-month job in Lesotho, he was released on 1 January 2006 by the coach office, and on 1 September 2006 coach of the Gambian football team. Then took place in April 2007, again the separation between Antoine Hey and the GFA due to differences with the sports minister Sheikh Omar Fye on the remuneration of the native Berliner.

On 30 May 2007, the Tunisian first division side U.S. Monastir announced the commitment Heys as head coach for the 2007 /2008 season. However, the club sacked him in late August after the second match again.

As of March 1, 2008 Hey received a one-year contract as coach of Liberia, with the team he should qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. After the expiry of the contract with Liberia in February 2009 Hey took over the national team of Kenya, to meet the qualification for the World Cup in 2010 or CAN Africa Cup in the 3rd group stage. In Kenya there are disputes between the domestic league and the association of the release of national, in the course of Hey in March and in May 2009 a total of eleven players from the national team excluded. In November 2009 Hey resigns as coach of Kenya, there has been repeated attempts to influence to the establishment and setting of the team. Later in Kenya playful then the possible African Cup of Nations qualification and failed as well as the host of the CECAFA Cup 2009 in the first round.

On July 1, 2010 Hey signed a four -year contract as technical director of the Libyan Football Federation.