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Gert Engels
Personal information
Full name Gert Josef Arthur Engels
Date of birth (1957-04-26) 26 April 1957 (age 67)
Place of birth Düren, West Germany
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1974–1975 SG Düren 99
1975–1978 Borussia Mönchengladbach
1978–1980 SV Baesweiler 09
1980–1990 SG Düren 99
Managerial career
1998 Yokohama Flügels
1999 JEF United Ichihara
2000–2003 Kyoto Purple Sanga
2004–2008 Urawa Reds
2008 Urawa Reds
2011–2013 Mozambique
2018 Vissel Kobe
2019–2020 Kyoto Sanga
2020–2021 INAC Kobe Leonessa
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Gert Engels (born 26 April 1957) is a German football manager (for example at Urawa Red Diamonds) and former player (for example at Borussia Mönchengladbach). With the UEFA-PRO-LICENSE he has got the best license you can have as a football manager. PR[1][2][3] He won big titles, experienced football all over the world and coached superstars like Makoto Hasebe, Park Ji-sung, Lukas Podolski or Andrés Iniesta.

In 2018, Engels received the German Football Ambassador Award for sporting and social commitments abroad.[4] He was succeeded in 2019 by Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp.[5]

Playing career

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Engels commenced his professional playing career with SG Düren 99 and later joined Borussia Mönchengladbach and FC Niederau. In Mönchengladbach he was part of the team that won the German Championships of 1976 and 1977. He played there with Legends like Jupp Heynckes.

Coaching career

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In 1990, Engels moved to Japan to work as a coach. His first stop was in Ibaraki with Prima Aseno FC, the club that later became Mito HollyHock. He also coached at Takigawa Dai Ni High School in Kobe before he joined the Yokohama Flügels as a member of the coaching staff in 1993.

Shortly before the Flugels folded and were partly absorbed into today's Yokohama F. Marinos - some of the players joined Yokohama Marinos, and the F was added in remembrance of Flugels - he was made manager there for a brief period. He held that position also briefly with JEF United Chiba before taking over the reins at Kyoto Purple Sanga. There he coached superstars like Park Ji-sung.

In Kyoto he returned the club, that was relegated after the previous season, into the J1 League and even led it to a win in the Japanese cup competition, the Emperor's Cup in 2002, defeating the fancied Kashima Antlers 2–1 in extra time. He stayed there another three years.

At the start of 2004 he was assistant coach with Urawa Red Diamonds, initially under head coach Guido Buchwald and later Holger Osieck, winning the AFC Champions League in 2007. After Osieck Gert Engels became the head coach of Urawa Red Diamonds.

On 12 October 2011, he became new manager of the Mozambique national team. He successfully changed the team, supported young players and also played successful games against Egypt or Morocco. He ended his time there in 2013.[6]

After that he returned to the J-League to Vissel Kobe, where he coached world stars like Lukas Podolski or Andres Iniesta.

Managerial statistics

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Team From To Record
G W D L Win %
Yokohama Flügels 1998 1998 9 7 0 2 077.78
JEF United Ichihara 1999 1999 15 4 2 9 026.67
Kyoto Purple Sanga 2000 2003 99 53 7 39 053.54
Urawa Reds 2008 2008 32 15 8 9 046.88
Total 155 79 17 59 050.97

Honors

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References

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  1. ^ "Football Commentary: Gert Engels - Manager for Hire". soccerphile. Retrieved 8 April 2010.
  2. ^ "Reds to dismiss German manager Engels". Associated Press. 27 November 2008. Retrieved 8 April 2010.
  3. ^ "ゲルト・エンゲルス コーチ、監督就任について [ 浦和 ] （08.03.16） Coach Gert Engels, director for the office [Urawa]". jsgoal.jp (in Japanese). 16 March 2008. Retrieved 8 April 2010.
  4. ^ Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche, German Football Ambassador Awards | DW | 9 May 2018, retrieved 18 February 2021
  5. ^ Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche, Jürgen Klopp wins German Football Ambassador award 2019 | DW | 15 May 2019, retrieved 18 February 2021
  6. ^ "Düren: Der Dürener Gert Engels tritt als Nationaltrainer Mosambiks zurück". 12 June 2013. Archived from the original on 9 January 2014. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
  7. ^ J.League Data Site(in Japanese)
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