Falko Götz

Falko Götz as manager of Holstein Kiel ( 2009)

Falko Götz ( born March 26, 1962 in Rodewisch ) is a German football coach and former football player.

Playing career

Götz started in East Berlin at FC Vorwärts Berlin with football games and moved to its delegation to Frankfurt ( Oder) in 1971 in the youth department of the BFC Dynamo. When he succeeded BFC 1980, the jump in the first men's team, for which he in the GDR Oberliga 40 games completed until 1983 and scored twelve goals. He was also player selection and had several assignments in youth, junior and Olympic selection in the GDR.

On November 3, 1983, he sat down with Dirk Schlegel before the European Cup final at Partizan Belgrade in the West German embassy in Yugoslavia from. After the escape he was locked by FIFA due to the then applicable rules for a year. On the day exactly one year after his escape Götz denied on November 3, 1984 his first Bundesliga match in West Germany for Bayer Leverkusen. His first of 46 league goals he scored five weeks later in the 1:2 away defeat against SV Waldhof Mannheim. In this game, he also received his first yellow card in the Bundesliga. His greatest success with Leverkusen was winning the UEFA Cup in 1988.

With the 1st FC Cologne, he was vice-champion in 1989 and 1990 and 1991 runner-up trophy winner. With Galatasaray he won the Double in 1993 in Turkey and in 1994 was Turkish masters. During this time he also played in the Champions League. With Hertha BSC in 1997 it rose to the Bundesliga on.

Coaching career

From 1997 to February 2002 Götz worked in the amateur and youth department of Hertha BSC. In the second half of the 2001/02 season he coached on an interim basis, the professionals of the club. From 12 March 2003 to 17 April 2004, he served as head coach of the TSV 1860 Munich, from which he was fired with six games left in the season and replaced by Gerald Vanenburg. At the end of the season the TSV rose in 1860 from Munich.

From 1 July 2004, he was head coach of Hertha BSC. On April 10, 2007 Falko Goetz was fired along with his assistant coach Andreas Thom due to persistent failure.

From 15 December 2008 to 16 September 2009 was Götz head coach at third division Holstein Kiel. With the club he won at the end of the 2008 /09 championship of the Regionalliga Nord, which meant promotion to the third division. Götz was dismissed on 16 September 2009. He was accused of having a player moves after losing a match against Eintracht Braunschweig by hand several blows on the forehead. This assault recognized the Kiel Labour Court in the first instance as a ground for dismissal. In September 2010, both parties agreed on appeal before the labor court in Kiel to a settlement under which Holstein Kiel dropped all charges against Falko Götz and agreed to a severance payment of 750,000 euros.

In May 2011, the Vietnamese Football Federation Götz committed as coach of the national team and the U- 23rd He received a two-year contract, but was released in December 2011 after disagreements with the Bureau again.

End of April 2013 Goetz was appointed coach of the second division Erzgebirge Aue as successor by Karsten Baumann.

Successes as a player

• GDR Champion: 1981, 1982, 1983
• 1988 UEFA Cup winner ( with Bayer Leverkusen)
• 1989 German Vice-Champion ( with the 1st FC Cologne)
• 1990 German Vice-Champion ( with the 1st FC Cologne)
• 1991 DFB Cup final ( with the 1st FC Cologne)
• 1993 Turkish champion and cup winner ( with Galatasaray Istanbul)
• 1994 Turkish champion ( with Galatasaray Istanbul)

Others

Falko Götz support as " Ark ambassador " the Ark daycare.