Michael Henke (born 27 April 1957) is a German
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly ...
coach and a former player. He is the current caretaker of
Arminia Bielefeld
DSC Arminia Bielefeld (; full name: ; commonly known as Arminia Bielefeld (), also known as ''Die Arminen'' or ''Die Blauen'' ), or just Arminia (), is a German sports club from Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia. Arminia offers the sports of ...
. His most notable post was managing
1. FC Kaiserslautern in the 2005–06 season for 14 games. He has spent much of his career working as assistant to
Ottmar Hitzfeld. After spending the 2009 season with Köln, Henke moved to Iran in order to become
Esteghlal's coach for the 2011–12 season. He was reunited with his former player,
Ferydoon Zandi
Ferydoon Zandi (born 26 April 1979) is an Iranian retired professional footballer.
Early life
Zandi was born in the city of Emden, in northern Germany, to an Iranian father and a German mother. He speaks German and Persian. He started playing ...
, whom he signed to
1. FC Kaiserslautern back in 2005. On 15 August 2012, he became
Aston Villa's Head of European scouting.
Career statistics
References
1957 births
Living people
People from Paderborn (district)
Sportspeople from Detmold (region)
German footballers
SC Paderborn 07 players
SG Wattenscheid 09 players
FC Gütersloh 2000 players
2. Bundesliga players
German football managers
FC Bayern Munich non-playing staff
1. FC Kaiserslautern managers
FC Gütersloh 2000 managers
1. FC Saarbrücken managers
Audi Sport TT Cup drivers
Association football midfielders
Borussia Dortmund II managers
Footballers from North Rhine-Westphalia
SV Lippstadt 08 players
Shanghai Shenhua F.C. non-playing staff
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