Gert Engels (born 26 April 1957) is a former
German
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footballer
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. He last coached
Nadeshiko League club
INAC Kobe Leonessa
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In 2006 INAC Leonessa was promoted to the Nadeshiko.League, where it has played since 2020 ...
.
In 2018, Engels received the German Football Ambassador Award for sporting and social commitments abroad. He was succeeded in 2019 by
Liverpool
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manager
Jurgen Klopp.
Career
He 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.
Coaching career
In 1990, he 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
is a Japanese professional football (soccer) club, currently playing in the J2 League. The team's hometown is located in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture.
Its nickname "HollyHock" derives from the family crest of the Tokugawa clan who governed from Mit ...
. He also coached at Takigawa Dai Ni High School in
Kobe before he joined the
Yokohama Flügels
was a Japanese football club that played in the J.League between 1993 and 1998. The club was an original member ("Original Ten") of the J.League in 1993. In 1999 the club was officially merged with local rivals Yokohama Marinos and the two te ...
as a member of the coaching staff in 1993.
Shortly before the Flugels folded and were partly absorbed into today's
Yokohama F. Marinos
is a Japanese professional football club based in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, part of the Greater Tokyo Area. The club competes in the J1 League, which is the top tier of football in the country.
Having won the J-League title four times an ...
- 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
is a Japanese professional football club based in Kyoto. "Sanga" comes from the Sanskrit word ''sangha'', a term meaning "group" or "club" and often used to denote the Buddhist priesthood, associating the club with Kyoto's many Buddhist templ ...
.
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. After three years there he was fired when the club started poorly into the new season.
At the start of 2004 he was assistant coach with
Urawa Red Diamonds
, colloquially Urawa Reds (浦和レッズ), also known as Mitsubishi Urawa Football Club from April 1992 to January 1996, is a professional football club in the city of Saitama, part of the Greater Tokyo Area in Japan. The club plays in the J ...
, initially under head coach
Guido Buchwald
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The best game of Buchwald's career was t ...
and later
Holger Osieck
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, winning the
AFC Champions League in 2007. When Osieck was sacked after only two matches of the new J.League season on March 16, 2008, Engels was appointed his successor. He was fired by Urawa Reds on 26 November 2008.
Since October 12, 2011, he is the new manager for the
Mozambique national team. He ended his time there in 2013.
Managerial statistics
J.League Data Site
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Honors
* Emperor's Cup Winner - 1998, 2002
* Nadeshiko League Runner-up 2020
References
External links
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1957 births
Living people
People from Düren
Sportspeople from Cologne (region)
Borussia Mönchengladbach players
Expatriate football managers in Japan
German expatriate sportspeople in Japan
German footballers
German football managers
J1 League managers
J2 League managers
Yokohama Flügels managers
JEF United Chiba managers
Kyoto Sanga FC managers
Urawa Red Diamonds managers
Mozambique national football team managers
Association football midfielders
Footballers from North Rhine-Westphalia
German expatriate football managers
German expatriate sportspeople in Mozambique
Expatriate football managers in Mozambique