Frank Schaefer
Frank Schaefer ( born October 26, 1963 in Cologne ) is a German football coach.
Career
Schaefer played from the age of ten, despite its small body size as a goalkeeper in the youth teams of the 1st FC Cologne, had his active career still in the youth quit due to an injury and has worked since 1982 as a youth coach for the club, before 1997, the U- 19 Bayer 04 Leverkusen took over. The qualified sports teacher returned in the summer of 2003 back to the FC, for whom he worked first as U-19 coach in November 2006 as an assistant coach of the first team and from 2007 as head coach of U -23.
After a leave of absence from Zvonimir Soldo October 24, 2010 Schaefer was his successor as head coach of the 1st FC Cologne. Under his leadership, the " Billy Goats " won seven home games in a row, which was previously managed only Henne Weisweiler.
On April 19, 2011 Schaefer announced that he would resign from his post as head coach at end of season. The reasons for his resignation, he moved to the personal area. This decision was preceded by a debate in the media about a statement by sporting director Volker Finke, who had commented Schaefer's strong commitment to the Christian faith so. " Thence comes obviously his problem of being able to combine the job as a professional football coach with his private life. " On April 27, 2011 Frank Schaefer finally announced his immediate resignation as head coach of the 1st FC Cologne. Taking care of the team for the rest of the season took Finke.
For the new season, from July 1, 2011, Schaefer took over the post of talent coordinator. As of April 12, 2012, he was again head coach at FC. He assumed the office of Ståle Solbakken, which the club's management indemnified because of persistent failure on the same day, first to the end of the season. After Schaefer had not then made with the FC in the league and was relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga, he gave on May 5, 2012 that he would resign from the post of head coach again and hold another function in the club.
On 22 May 2012, the FC introduced the new leadership trio. In addition to head coach Holger Stanislawski and the conductor for senior management succession planning and management transfers Jörg Jacob Schaefer held the office of athletic director.
Frank Schaefer is in possession of the DFB Football Trainer license.