Maik Walpurgis

Maik Walpurgis ( born October 9, 1973 in Herford ) is a German football coach. He is currently working VfL Osnabrück.

Coaching career

Walpurgis first came into contact with the football when he accompanied his father at the age of three to four years to a second division game to the football stadium to SC Herford. He plays in the youth field quite high, but decided at the age of 18 years, after repeated violations, not to pursue his active career as a football player on and instead turn to the coaching job. In his first headed by him, youth training, however, he discovered his interest in the coaching profession. First Walpurgis started its work in youth - power range, before he moved to the senior level at the age of 26 years.

Walpurgis joined his first coaching job in July 1991 at SC Herford, where he worked until June 1998. He then managed the U-19 team of the former second division FC Gütersloh. This he left in December 1999. In the 2001/2002 season he coached the Association division SV Passenger- Westerenger. After just one season he left the club to return to Gütersloh, where he was this time take the first team of FC Gütersloh 2000, the successor club of FC Gütersloh. This place he was also after just one season back on to take up the coach of the second team of Arminia Bielefeld in the summer of 2003. His contract there originally ran until June 2005. Walpurgis However, in January 2005, laid down his post because he had the feeling of not getting the full support of the club.

In September 2008, Maik Walpurgis coach of Sportfreunde Lotte, with whom he played regularly in the sequence to the top of the table spaces of the West Regional. In the 2008/2009 season, the team reached the final of Westphalia Cup, after which it was allowed to participate in the following 2009/2010 season the DFB Cup. In the 2012/13 season was Walpurgis with Lotte win the Regionalliga West, however, failed in the following games rise to the 3rd league at RB Leipzig.

Despite existing contract Walpurgis took place a little later switching to the third division side VfL ​​Osnabrück. Here, Walpurgis referred to an oral warranted exit option. However, Sportfreunde Lotte were not ready to release their coach, which led to a legal battle that is yet to no avail. Also, a mediation by the DFB few days before the start of the season was unsuccessful.

Achievements

  • 2009: Vice - Federation Cup winner, thus qualifying for the DFB Cup
  • 2013: the West Regional Championship
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