Bernd Stange

Bernd Stange in March 2012 the Jena Ernst -Abbe- sports field.

Bernd Stange ( born March 14, 1948 in Gnaschwitz, the district of Bautzen ) is a German football coach.

As a football player, he was active in Chemistry Gnaschwitz amateur and the GDR until 1965. A year later played rod in forward Bautzen before joining the SC DHfK Leipzig, where he in 1970 his playing career ended. Bernd Stange graduated from the DHfK a degree in physical education teacher.

He was in 1970 a member of the coaching staff of FC Carl Zeiss Jena; initially as a youth coach, from 1971 as an assistant coach Hans Meyer. In 1978 he moved to the Football Association of the GDR and supervised various youth teams there at first. Later he was assistant coach and 1983-1988 coach of the East German national soccer team. Due to poor performance of the East German national team, he was released on 1 December 1988.

Rod was an unofficial member of the East German State Security Service and spied on, among other things Jörg Berger, who announced this until 2005. The reports of rod ended the national career of Hans Richter in the GDR.

From 1989 to 1991 bar was coach of FC Carl Zeiss Jena, then moved to the Bundesliga and was from 1 July 1991 to 18 August 1992 Coach of Hertha BSC. 1993/94 he coached VfB Leipzig in its sole Bundesliga season, but was there an early release on 21 February 1994. In the season 1994/95 rod was sports director at Hertha BSC. This office was on pole in the spring of 1995.

Now sat stick his coaching career abroad continues - via Ukraine (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, 1995/96; CSKA Kiev, 1996), Australia ( Perth Glory, 1998-2001) and Oman ( coach of the national team in 2001 ) eventually led him into the Iraq.

From 10 November 2002 to 5 July 2004, he was coach of the Iraqi national soccer team. The contract, which he had yet completed at the time of Saddam Hussein, commented some extremely critical. Despite the extremely unstable political situation (Iraq War in 2003 ) of his team after qualifying for the Olympic Summer Games 2004. Due to the tense security situation in the country, he resigned in July 2004 from his office. The Iraqi national team finished fourth at the Olympic Games in August 2004.

On 18 January 2005 Bernd Stange took the first division side Apollon Limassol in Cyprus. From the second to last place in the table, he managed thanks to a surprising second round with only one defeat the leap to seventh place in the table. In the season 2005/ 06 then Limassol managed the feat, losing none of the 26 season games and to be undefeated champion. Here Apollon Limassol won the Cypriot Super Cup.

On January 5, 2007 rod resigned from his post, as his former assistant coach Harald Irmscher was released for financial reasons. Since July 30, 2007 rod was coach of Belarus, again with Irmscher as an assistant. After he declined the offer of a contract extension, his contract expired in late 2011 from Belarus final. In April 2013 rod was introduced as the new coach of the national team of Singapore.

Besides his work as a football coach Bernd Stange club chairman of the Action Base eV

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