A hard -working and sharp -language player and coach crash with opponents and media.
Known as a hard -working defender and sharp -language coach known to the German football Egon coordes He has died at the age of 80, his long-time employer Bayern Munich said on his website.
Coordes was known in the 1960s and 1970s as a defender, whose tough grips in Werder Bremen and Stuttgart ranked him nicknames “der Schleifer”, or abrasive machine and “Eisenfuss” or Iron Foot. At the end of his career, Coordes became coach.
Coordes was known as a supporter of strict discipline and hard physical training.
– For me, there are no free Sunday days in this profession, no birthdays, no wedding days, Coordes described his attitude.
The absolute of Coordes also drove him to conflict with the media. As a Stuttgart head coach in the 1980s, the fighting went so far that Coordes used his dog to bite the journalist and his dog, said Spiegel, a German magazine.
Coordes also threw a photographer on an aluminum plate, which at that time showed the players.
Were terminated by a player voting
Coordes served as head coach in Suttgart, HSV, Hannover 96, and Al-Ahl, Dubai, Austria Vienna, FC Luzern, Iran Olympic team and the Al-Khaleej.
Coordes from HSV, a hamburger, had to leave in 1992. The head coach had heard that five players had stayed in the disco until the little hours and demanded club leader Jürgen’s puff to shelve the five.
Hunke organized a vote among the players: whether the players or coach will be transferred. The result of the player voting was 14-3 in the loss of Coordes and was dismissed.
In Bayern Munich, he was several times as an assistant coach, head coaches Udo lattete, Jupp Heynceces and Giovanni trapaton. When Heynces was dismissed from Munich in 1991, Coordes resigned as a protest for his supervisor.
Coordes won the German Championship four times with Bayern.