Olaf Janßen (born 8 October 1966) is a retired German
footballer
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and manager of
Viktoria Köln
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Places
* FK Viktoria Stadion, stadium of Viktoria Žižkov
* Viktoria-Luise-Platz, building in Berlin
* Viktoriastadt, now known as Victor ...
, who played as a
midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
.
Club career
Janßen spent most of his playing career with German
Bundesliga
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sides
1. FC Köln and
Eintracht Frankfurt
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, where he later worked as a scout.
In September 2013 he was appointed as manager of
Dynamo Dresden
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, but was sacked after nine months on the job.
In June 2016 Janßen became
assistant coach
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History
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to
VfB Stuttgart
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head coach
Jos Luhukay
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Playing career
He began his career at the age of 15 at his hometown club FC VVV and he made his league debut in Januar ...
. From 15 to 20 September 2016 he was
caretaker manager
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of the club. Janßen took on a new role as
scout
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of VfB Stuttgart and left the coaching staff after the appointment of the new head coach
Hannes Wolf.
For the 2017–18 season, he was appointed as the head coach of
FC St. Pauli. He was sacked on 7 December 2017.
In January 2018 he became new manager of
FC Viktoria Köln
FC Viktoria Köln is a German association football club from the city of Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia, that competes in the 3. Liga.
History
Founded in 1904 as ''FC Germania Kalk'' it is one of the oldest football clubs in the city. In 1 ...
replacing
Marco Antwerpen. He returned to Cologne on 1 February 2021.
International career
Janßen played for West Germany at the
1988 Summer Olympics
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in
Seoul
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.
Career statistics
References
External links
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1966 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Krefeld
German footballers
Footballers from North Rhine-Westphalia
Association football midfielders
Germany under-21 international footballers
Olympic medalists in football
Olympic footballers of West Germany
Olympic bronze medalists for West Germany
Footballers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Bundesliga players
2. Bundesliga players
Swiss Super League players
KFC Uerdingen 05 players
1. FC Köln players
Eintracht Frankfurt players
AC Bellinzona players
German football managers
2. Bundesliga managers
3. Liga managers
Dynamo Dresden managers
VfB Stuttgart managers
FC St. Pauli managers
FC Viktoria Köln managers
German expatriate footballers
German expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
Expatriate footballers in Switzerland