Frank Engel (football manager)

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Frank Engel
Engel in 1990
Personal information
Date of birth (1951-02-15) 15 February 1951 (age 73)
Place of birth Leipzig, East Germany
Team information
Current team
Germany U15 (Manager)
Youth career
Years Team
BSG DIMO Böhlitz-Ehrenberg
0000–1970 BSG Chemie Leipzig
Managerial career
1976–1988 East Germany youth teams
1989 BSG Chemie Böhlen
1990 Daewoo Royals
1991–1992 FC Sachsen Leipzig
1992–1993 TSG Markkleeberg
1993–1994 1. FC Magdeburg
1994–1995 Union Berlin
1995–1997 Rot-Weiß Erfurt
1997 Carl Zeiss Jena
1998–1999
Ismaily
2000 Rot-Weiß Erfurt
2006–2009 Germany U-18
2009– Germany U-15

Frank Engel (born 15 February 1951) is a German football manager[1] who manages the Germany U15 national team. From 1 January 2006 until 2009 he managed Germany's Under-18 national team.

Club career

Born in

BSG DIMO Böhlitz-Ehrenberg in a suburb of Leipzig, before moving on to DDR-Oberliga side BSG Chemie Leipzig. Here he played for the youth team, but already had to end his playing days without playing a single senior game due to prolonged back problems.[2]

Managerial career

Engel took up managing immediately after his playing days had come to an end, working as a youth coach for Chemie Leipzig until 1976, when he found work with the

Under-16 European Championship in Spain. The East Germans beat their West German counterparts under Holger Osieck
in the third-place playoff.

After

K-League
history. Additionally he was assistant manager at
.

Since 2006 he has again been working with the youth national teams, first with the U18 as the successor of Michael Skibbe,[3] then the Under-19 national team and now with the Under-15 team.[2]

References

  1. ^ "DFB-Trainer Frank Engel" (in German). German Football Association. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
  2. ^ a b "Frank Engel bekommt zusätzliche Aufgaben" (in German). Handelsblatt. 14 December 2009. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
  3. ^ "Frank Engel übernimmt deutsches U-18-Nationalteam" (in German). Handelsblatt. 19 December 2005. Retrieved 25 January 2010.