Franco Foda
Franco Foda
Franco Foda ( born April 23, 1966 in Mainz ) is a former German football player and current football coach.
- 3.1 as a player
- 3.2 as coach
Career
Player
Franco Foda played 321 Bundesliga games and scored 20 goals. He twice won the DFB-Pokal - 1990 with the 1st FC Kaiserslautern, 1993 Bayer 04 Leverkusen. During the winter break 1996/97 he left the VfB Stuttgart. In the summer of 1997 he, after a short stay at FC Basel in Switzerland, to Austria for SK Sturm Graz. He was twice champion and cup winner Supercup winner and once and played during the very successful time at SK Sturm in the Champions League, in which he reached the second round of the best 16 teams in the 2000/2001 season.
In the German national team, in 1987 he loaded twice in the games against Argentina and Brazil.
Coach
After he had finished his active career as a player, he was hired by SK Sturm Graz as youth coach. Just one year later, in 2002, he was an assistant coach in the first team. Following the resignation of Ivica Osim Franco was appointed as the new head coach of the team. At first he celebrated with the team some success ( moving into the third UEFA Cup round ), at the end of the team landed but only on rank 6, so Foda was replaced by Gilbert Gress. Franco went back into second place and worked very successfully as manager of the amateurs of SK Sturm.
On 1 June 2006 he was again appointed as the head coach of SK Sturm Graz after Michael Petrović had to leave the club in the FC Kärnten. His contract for locals ran until 2012. On 16 May 2010 the team coached by Foda of SK Sturm Graz with a 1-0 win over Magna Wiener Neustadt won OFB Cup. A year later, on 25 May 2011, Foda took by storm the Austrian championship of the season 2010/11 and is therefore at all three championship titles in Graz involved either as a player or coach.
On March 19, 2012 Sturm Graz announced not to renew the contract with Foda. This announcement was preceded by several weeks of medial discharged clashes between coach and club management board. On April 12, 2012 Foda was suspended prematurely.
Prior to the 2012/13 season Foda was head coach at relegated from the Bundesliga 1 FC Kaiserslautern in place of Krassimir Balakov. He signed a two-year contract until 30 June 2014. Foda The association filed on August 29, 2013 from his duties as coach free. At this time the FCK was on the fourth place of the second division.
Private
Foda is the son of a German mother and an Italian father from Mainz from Venice. He owned up to the age of seven Italian citizenship. He is married and has two sons, of whom played a, Sandro, below him in the first team of SK Sturm Graz. Beginning of the season 2012/13 he moved to the second- highest division for TSV Hartberg. His second son Marco plays in the amateur team of SK Sturm Graz.
Achievements
As a player
- Two international appearances for Germany
- 7 international appearances for Germany U -21
- 2 x Winner of the DFB-Pokal with the 1st FC Kaiserslautern and Bayer Leverkusen
- 2 × Austrian football champions with SK Sturm Graz
- 1 × OFB - Winners' Cup with SK Sturm Graz
- 2 × OFB Supercup winner with SK Sturm Graz
- 3 × Champions League participation with SK Sturm Graz (2000/ 2001, reaching the second round of the 16 best teams in Europe )