Franco Foda

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Franco Foda
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Foda in 2009.
Personal information
Date of birth (1966-04-23) 23 April 1966 (age 58)
Place of birth Mainz, West Germany
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Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
 SK Sturm Graz (manager)
Youth career
1982–1983 1. FSV Mainz 05
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1983–1984 1. FC Kaiserslautern 3 (0)
1984–1985 Arminia Bielefeld 43 (8)
1985–1987 1. FC Saarbrücken 52 (3)
1987–1990 1. FC Kaiserslautern 87 (5)
1990–1994 Bayer Leverkusen 113 (10)
1994–1996 VfB Stuttgart 69 (0)
1997 FC Basel 13 (0)
1997–2001 Sturm Graz 99 (1)
Total 479 (27)
International career
1987 West Germany 2 (0)
Managerial career
2001–2002 Sturm Graz (amateurs)
2002 Sturm Graz (assistant)
2002–2003 Sturm Graz
2003–2006 Sturm Graz (amateurs)
2006–2012 Sturm Graz
2012–2013 1. FC Kaiserslautern
2014– Sturm Graz
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Franco Foda (born 23 April 1966 in Mainz) is a German football manager and former player.

Football career

Playing career

Foda played as a defender with his home town club 1. FSV Mainz 05. He turned professional, playing for 1. FC Kaiserslautern for three matches in 1983–84), then moving to Arminia Bielefeld followed by 1. FC Saarbrücken, playing in both the first and second division. He then returned to Kaiserslautern for three further seasons, and played as a substitute in the West German national team in December 1987 against Brazil (1–1) and Argentina (0–1).

Foda joined Bayer 04 Leverkusen in 1990, where he was a key defensive player and scored four league goals in his fourth season, as Leverkusen finished third. He then played with VfB Stuttgart, FC Basel (a short 1997 spell) and SK Sturm Graz, retiring in 2001 at 35, having played 321 German first division matches.

Coaching career

Early career

Foda moved into coaching with Sturm Graz as an assistant coach. He had been interim head coach between 20 September 2002[1] until November 2002.[2] At this point, Foda became the permanent head coach until they hired Gilbert Gress to became the head coach on 4 June 2003.[2] He then went on to coach the reserve team immediately after to when he was promoted to head coach of the first team on 1 June 2006.[3] Sturm Graz won the 2010–11 Bundesliga[4] and the 2009–10 Austrian Cup[5] under Foda. He was originally scheduled to leave after the 2011–12 season.[6] However, he ended up being sacked on 12 April 2012 after the club was knocked–out of the Austrian Cup.[7]

1. FC Kaiserslautern

On 22 May 2012, Foda was announced as new head coach of 1. FC Kaiserslautern, who had just been relegated to the second division after two seasons in the top flight.[8] On 29 August 2013, he was sacked as head coach with immediate effect.[9]

Return to Sturm Graz

Foda returned to Sturm Graz on 30 September 2014[10] and won his first match in–charge on 4 October 2014 against Grödig.[11]

Coaching record

As of 22 September 2015
Team From To Record
G W D L Win % Ref.
Sturm Graz 20 September 2002[1] 4 June 2003[2] 33 13 4 16 39.39 [12]
Sturm Graz II 4 June 2003[3] 1 June 2006[3] 93 34 24 35 36.56
Sturm Graz 1 June 2006[3] 12 April 2012[7] 258 117 65 76 45.35 [13][14][15]
[16][17][18]
1. FC Kaiserslautern 22 May 2012[8] 29 August 2013[9] 44 20 13 11 45.45 [19][20]
Sturm Graz 30 September 2014[10] Present 40 18 11 11 45.00
Total 438 189 107 142 43.15 —

Personal life

His son Sandro (born 1989) first appeared professionally with Sturm Graz in 2007, when his father was head coach.[21]

Honours

Player

1. FC Kaiserslautern
Bayer Leverkusen
Sturm Graz

Manager

Sturm Graz

References

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