Volker Finke (born 24 March 1948) is a German
football
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manager. He was the coach of
SC Freiburg
Sport-Club Freiburg e.V., commonly known as SC Freiburg () or just Freiburg, is a German football club, based in the city of Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg. It plays in the Bundesliga, having been promoted as champions from the 2. Bund ...
for 16 years.
Coaching career
On 6 December 2008, Japanese club
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 ...
announced they signed a contract with Finke as head coach until 2010.
On 18 December 2010, Finke was named as the new director of sport by
1. FC Köln effective on 1 February 2011. Effective on 27 April 2011, Finke additionally became interim coach until the end of the season. On 10 March 2012, Köln parted company with Finke by mutual consent after a 1–0 win over
Hertha BSC
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.
On 22 May 2013, he was named as head coach of
Cameroon
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.
He was sacked on 30 October 2015, two weeks before the
2018 FIFA World Cup qualification
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phase started.
Honours
Manager
SC Freiburg
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2. Bundesliga:
1992–93,
2002–03
See also
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List of longest managerial reigns in association football
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People
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Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List, German rugby union ...
References
External links
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1948 births
Living people
People from Nienburg, Lower Saxony
Footballers from Lower Saxony
German footballers
German football managers
TSV Havelse managers
SC Freiburg managers
J1 League managers
Urawa Red Diamonds managers
1. FC Köln managers
Expatriate football managers in Japan
Bundesliga managers
2. Bundesliga managers
Cameroon national football team managers
2014 FIFA World Cup managers
2015 Africa Cup of Nations managers
Association football midfielders
TSV Havelse players
Hannoverscher SC players
Expatriate football managers in Cameroon
German expatriate sportspeople in Japan
German expatriate sportspeople in Cameroon
German expatriate football managers