Roland Vrabec

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Roland Vrabec
Vrabec, Roland Trainer StP 13-14.JPG
Roland Vrabec as FC St. Pauli manager in 2013
Personal information
Full name Roland Vrabec
Date of birth (1974-03-06) 6 March 1974 (age 47)
Place of birth Frankfurt, Germany
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Esbjerg fB (Manager)
Youth career
1986–1992 Spvgg 05 Oberrad
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1993–2000 SG Croatia Frankfurt
Teams managed
2000–2007 FSV Frankfurt (youth)
2009–2011 1. FSV Mainz 05 (youth)
2011–2012 Germany U18
2012–2013 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig (assistant)
2013 FC St. Pauli (assistant)
2013–2014 FC St. Pauli
2016–2017 FSV Frankfurt
2017–2018 FC Vaduz
2019–2020 Progrès Niederkorn
2021– Esbjerg fB
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Roland Vrabec (born 6 March 1974) is a German football manager. He is the manager of Esbjerg fB.

Personal life[]

Vrabec played as a teenager at the Frankfurt district club Spvgg 05 Oberrad and as a senior in amateur status at SG Croatia Frankfurt. With his club he played in the former Bundesliga league Hessen and then Football Hessenliga. Already at the age of 26, he ended his active career in order to devote himself to further education as a sports science expert with a focus on sports medicine and training. Vrabec studied from 2000 at the Institute of Psychology and Sports Science (IFS) of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt. He completed his training at the Hennes Weisweiler Academy in Hennef.

Career[]

Vrabec's previous coaching stations were from 2001 initially the youth area of the FSV Frankfurt, the 1st FSV Mainz 05 and an assistant seniors at the 1st FC Lokomotive Leipzig from 2012 to 2013. From 2011 to 2013 he was co-coach of the U-18 teams at the DFB in cooperation with Christian Ziege and Horst Hrubesch.

From summer 2013, he worked as an assistant coach of FC St. Pauli. On 6 November 2013, he moved as a former assistant coach on the side of Michael Frontzeck after his leave of absence in the role of head coach at FC St. Pauli. He should first lead the team in the 2nd Bundesliga until the winter break of the 2013/14 season. This was considered a steep coaching career of a "nameless" player and coach in German professional football and was the philosophy and financial planning of the club FC St. Pauli owed. At the beginning of the winter break 2013/14 he extended his contract as head coach until 30 June 2015. After a weak start of the team in the 2014/15 season, he was on 3 September 2014 as a coach of FC St. Pauli leave.

In January 2015, Vrabec co-coach of Markus Babbel at Lucerne in the Swiss Super League. On February 22, 2016, he was released immediately at FC Lucerne. For the season 2016/17 he was new coach at the third division FSV Frankfurt.

On his 43rd birthday, the FSV Frankfurt released him immediately. About two weeks later, he was introduced as the new coach of FC Vaduz. He failed to keep FC Vaduz in the Swiss Super League. He won his first trophy in Liechtenstein Football Cup.

He was announced as the new coach of Progrès Niederkorn on 12 June 2019.[1] He was sacked by the club in November 2020.[2]

On 11 August he was named the successor of Peter Hyballa as manager of the Danish 1st Division club Esbjerg fB.[3]

Honours[]

FC Vaduz

References[]

  1. ^ "Progrès stellt den deutschen Profitrainer Roland Vrabec offiziell vor" [Progrès officially introduces the German professional trainer Roland Vrabec] (in German). Tageblatt. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
  2. ^ "Progrès Niederkorn: Stéphane Leoni ersetzt Roland Vrabec" [Progrès Niederkorn: Stéphane Leoni replaces Roland Vrabec] (in German). Tageblatt. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  3. ^ "Hyballa stopper - EfB hyrer ny tysker" (in Danish). bold.dk. 2021-08-11. Retrieved 2021-08-11.

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