Michael Henke
Michael Henke (* April 27, 1957 in Buren ) is a former German football player and current coach. He graduated at the Ruhr- University Bochum a teaching degree in the subjects of sports and geography. Publicly known Henke was won primarily by its function as a longtime assistant coach Ottmar Hitzfeld with Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich, for Hitzfeld and Henke numerous national and international titles.
- 3.1 Aston Villa
Career as a player
Michael Henke played as a footballer at SV 21 Buren ( 1964-75 ), the first FC Paderborn ( 1975-78 ), at Teutonia Lippstadt ( 1978-1980 ), the SG Wattenscheid 09 ( 1980-83 ) in the 2nd division Bundesliga, TuS Paderborn Neuhaus ( 1983-86 ) and FC Gütersloh, where he also worked as a coach at the end of his career from 1986 to 1988 in 1988 for one year.
Career as a coach
Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich
As of 1989, Henke worked at Borussia Dortmund as an assistant to Horst Koppel ( 1989-1991), Ottmar Hitzfeld (1991-1997) and Nevio Scala (1997-1998 ) and from 1998 to 2004 with FC Bayern Munich as an assistant coach Ottmar Hitzfeld's.
1 FC Kaiserslautern and FC Saarbrücken 1
On 1 July 2005 Henke took over at the 1 FC Kaiserslautern for the first time as head coach at a Bundesliga responsibility. Already on 19 November 2005 but was released after a miserable start to the season. The club was at this time with nine points from 13 games on the bottom of the table. The descent of the Palatinate could not prevent his successor Wolfgang Wolf. For negative headlines Henke made the second round match of the DFB Cup with FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt, Erfurt when he offended the player with the words " shit Easterners " and " Ossipack ". From 1 FC Kaiserslautern, he was sure fined 10,000 euros, which was paid to the youth department of Erfurt.
From June 2006, Henke was head coach at the 1 FC Saarbrücken, but was released there on 30 October 2006 from his post as coach. He took over the post of sporting director.
Bayern Munich 1 FC Cologne
On 31 January 2007 the 1st FC Saarbrücken dissolved the contract at his request, since he, after the FC Bayern Munich Ottmar Hitzfeld could undertake as successor to Felix Magath, again under his longtime boss as an assistant coach at Bayern Munich wanted to work. This activity went from 1 February 2007 to 30 June 2008, after again. His head coach Hitzfeld was from July 1, 2008 coach of the Swiss national team. First Hitzfeld Henke wanted to incorporate as assistant coach with the Swiss. However Hitzfeld decided against Henke, since he needed a French speaking assistant.
Therefore Henke took on 1 July 2008 the offer of FC Bayern Munich to work under new coach Jurgen Klinsmann as head analyst and head of game watching. For this activity, he had a contract until 30 June 2010.
On 12 June 2009 the 1st FC Cologne announced that Michael Henke was hired as an assistant coach of Zvonimir Soldo. He worked there until October 24, 2010 due to the poor start to the season he was suspended along with head coach Soldo.
Esteghlal Tehran
On July 16, 2011 Michael Henke signed a contract as an assistant coach with the Iranian giants Esteghlal Tehran. According to the ISNA news agency he also served as a technical advisor to the club president Ali Fattollahzadeh. On 15 March 2012, he was with Esteghlal Cup winner. End of June 2012, his contract expired and was not renewed.
FC Ingolstadt 04
1 February 2013, he took over the post of assistant coach with the German second division side FC Ingolstadt 04 under head coach Tomas Oral. He signed a contract until the end of June 2014. According to the leave of absence from Orals successor Marco Kurz on September 30, 2013 Henke charge of the team as interim coach.
Career as a Scout
Aston Villa
In August 2012, he took over the English first division club Aston Villa the post of chief scout for Europe.