Werner Kern (born 23 February 1946 in
Berchtesgaden
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) is a German
football
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coach, who is head of the
youth department at
FC Bayern Munich
Fußball-Club Bayern München e. V. (FCB, ), also known as FC Bayern (), Bayern Munich, or simply Bayern, is a German professional sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. It is best known for its professional men's football team, which play ...
.
After a career playing amateur football, Kern was appointed assistant manager of Bayern Munich in 1970, where he remained until 1977, serving during the club's golden era. He assisted
Udo Lattek and
Dettmar Cramer, and also managed the
reserve team
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.
He then went into management himself, working at
Wormatia Worms,
1. FC Nürnberg
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,
Eintracht Trier
SV Eintracht Trier 05 is a German association football club based in Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate. It was formed on 11 March 1948 out of the merger of Westmark 05 Trier and Eintracht Trier 06, on the 43rd anniversary of the establishment of pred ...
and
SSV Ulm 1846. In 1998, he was to return to Bayern Munich to head up the revamped
youth setup but later retired.
External links
Profile
1946 births
Living people
German football managers
FC Bayern Munich non-playing staff
1. FC Nürnberg managers
Bundesliga managers
Wormatia Worms managers
FC Bayern Munich II managers
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