Heiko Vogel
Heiko Vogel ( born November 21, 1975 in Bad Durkheim ) is a German football coach. Most recently, he coached one year as head coach of FC Basel.
Active time as a player
Bird grew up in Wachenheim (Pfalz ) and played in his youth football for local clubs TuS Home Guard and FC 08 Haßloch. Later he was at SV Edenkoben in the Football Regionalliga West / Southwest, who was then the third- highest division, active.
Coaching career
Bayern Munich
After bird had given up his ambitions for a career as a professional footballer suffered due to the age of 20 years, ankle injury, he studied sports science at the Technical University of Munich. In 1998, after successful completion of the course, Vogel first competed at TSV 1860 Munich unsuccessfully for a job as a coach. About a lecturer he got a contact to Bayern Munich and became first assistant coach Hermann Hummels at youth level of FC Bayern. Later he trained there myself several youth teams (U -10, U-13, U -15 and U -17). Here he was responsible for players like today's professionals Philipp Lahm, Diego Contento, Mehmet Ekici, Mats Hummels and Thomas Müller. Parallel to his activities as a youth coach in Munich completed bird to 2004 training as a football coach at the Sports University in Cologne.
FC Ingolstadt 04
As Thorsten Fink was appointed in 2008 to head coach of FC Ingolstadt 04 in the regional league, he brought bird to which he at the Sport University of Cologne maintains a friendly relationship since the joint training, as his assistant coach with to Ingolstadt. In 2008, the coach duo rose to Ingolstadt on to the 2nd Bundesliga.
FC Basel
In the summer of 2009 Thorsten Fink was brought in as the new head coach of FC Basel in Switzerland, where he took bird with as assistant coach for FCB. Bird signed a three-year contract, which was extended ahead in October 2010 for one year. Heiko Vogel followed at FC Basel to mid-October 2011 for Hamburger SV exchanged Fink as head coach after the first two months on an interim basis. At the same time, the contract with bird was prematurely extended for another year until 2014. The first three games, led the bird as a head coach, were in the Swiss Cup, a 5-1 away win at FC Schötz, in the Champions League group C a 0-2 home defeat against Benfica and in the Axpo Super League, a 1 :0- away win at FC Zurich. On December 7, 2011 bird reached with the team by a 2-1 win against Manchester United in the last game of the group stage of the knockout stages of the Champions League.
On 29 April 2012, he celebrated with FC Basel the Swiss Championship, the 15th in the club 's history. On 16 May 2012, the team also won the Swiss Cup. The start of the 2012/2013 season took place with three defeats from 21 games, but it was the qualifiers for the Champions League against CRJ Cluj lost. Heiko Vogel was surprisingly released on October 15, 2012 at FC Basel and replaced by Murat Yakin. The Club philosophy of the FCB is to have eight players from their own academy in the 24 -man squad. Under no bird of youth has made a breakthrough in the first team.
Return to Bayern Munich
Since October 29, 2013 Bird coached the U19 FC Bayern Munich, succeeding Marc Kienle, who moved to SVW Wiesbaden.
Achievements
Basel
- Swiss Champion: 2012
- Swiss Cup Winner: 2012
Individually
- Fair Play Award Axpo Super League: 2012
Varia
Heiko Vogel was with four other individuals as winners of the Arosa Humor blade 2012, a jury prize of the Arosa Humour Festival, nominated for the prize but not received.