Roland Vrabec (born 6 March 1974) is a German

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manager. He was most recently the manager of

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Personal life

Vrabec played as a teenager at the Frankfurt district club Spvgg 05 Oberrad and as a senior in amateur status at SG Croatia Frankfurt. With his club he played in the former Bundesliga league Hessen and then Football Hessenliga. Already at the age of 26, he ended his active career in order to devote himself to further education as a sports science expert with a focus on

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and

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. Vrabec studied from 2000 at the Institute of Psychology and Sports Science (IFS) of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt. He completed his training at the Hennes Weisweiler Academy in

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Career

Vrabec's previous coaching stations were from 2001 initially the youth area of the

FSV Frankfurt Fußballsportverein Frankfurt 1899 e.V., commonly known as simply FSV Frankfurt, is a German association football club based in the Bornheim district of Frankfurt am Main, Hesse and founded in 1899. FSV Frankfurt also fielded a rather successfu ...

, the 1st

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and an assistant seniors at the 1st FC Lokomotive Leipzig from 2012 to 2013. From 2011 to 2013 he was co-coach of the U-18 teams at the DFB in cooperation with

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and

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. From summer 2013, he worked as an assistant coach of

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. On 6 November 2013, he moved as a former assistant coach on the side of

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after his leave of absence in the role of head coach at FC St. Pauli. He should first lead the team in the 2nd Bundesliga until the winter break of the 2013/14 season. This was considered a steep coaching career of a "nameless" player and coach in German professional football and was the philosophy and financial planning of the club FC St. Pauli owed. At the beginning of the winter break 2013/14 he extended his contract as head coach until 30 June 2015. After a weak start of the team in the 2014/15 season, he was on 3 September 2014 as a coach of FC St. Pauli leave. In January 2015, Vrabec co-coach of

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at Lucerne in the Swiss Super League. On 22 February 2016, he was released immediately at FC Lucerne. For the season 2016/17 he was new coach at the third division FSV Frankfurt. On his 43rd birthday, the FSV Frankfurt released him immediately. About two weeks later, he was introduced as the new coach of

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. He failed to keep FC Vaduz in the

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. He won his first trophy in

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. He was announced as the new coach of Progrès Niederkorn on 12 June 2019. He was sacked by the club in November 2020. On 11 August he was named the successor of

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as manager of the

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club

. He was sacked in March 2022 with the club only 3 points above the relegation zone.

Honours

FC Vaduz *

(2): 2016–17, 2017–18

References

External links

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at scoreway.com * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vrabec, Roland 1974 births German football managers Living people Sportspeople from Frankfurt FC St. Pauli managers FSV Frankfurt managers 3. Liga managers 1. FSV Mainz 05 II managers FC Progrès Niederkorn managers Esbjerg fB managers FC Vaduz managers