german football executive
Christian Heidel ( born 2 June 1963 ) is a german football executive who previously worked for FSV Mainz 05 and Schalke 04 .

career [edit ]

1. FSV Mainz 05 ( 1992–2016 ) [edit ]

Heidel became Mainz 05 ‘s director in 1992 and was a main architect of the golf club ‘s get up and consolidation in the Bundesliga in the keep up years. He notably made Jürgen Klopp the golf club ‘s coach in 2001, who would belated go on to manage Borussia Dortmund and Liverpool F.C. [ 1 ] Thomas Tuchel, who became head coach in 2009, is another internationally successful coach whose career on the professional charge started under Heidel. [ 2 ] Another significant accomplishment of Heidel ‘s time in Mainz was the construction of the club ‘s modern home venue, the Opel Arena ( then known as COFACE ARENA ). [ 3 ] He besides oversaw the forwarding of the club ‘s modesty team to the 3. Liga in 2014, [ 4 ] the highest grade of the german football league system reserve teams are allowed to compete in.

By the end of his time at Mainz, he had become the longest-serving executive coach in the league. [ 5 ]

FC Schalke 04 ( 2016–2019 ) [edit ]

Mainz 05 announced that Heidel would leave the club after the end of the 2015–16 season on 21 February 2016. [ 6 ] On the like day, Schalke 04 presented him as their new administrator coach for the following season. [ 7 ] Heidel installed Markus Weinzierl as the club ‘s head coach, [ 8 ] but sacked him the year after, [ 9 ] as Schalke ‘s tenth-place coating was insufficient to qualify them for any international contest. [ 10 ] Weinzierl ‘s successor Domenico Tedesco was initially more successful, with the cabaret finishing runner-up in the 2017–18 season, [ 11 ] but when the team ‘s operation drastically deteriorated in the succeed year, [ 12 ] he was fired in March 2019, with golf club caption Huub Stevens satiate in for the remainder of the season. [ 13 ] Heidel himself had already handed in his resignation weeks earlier, assuming full responsibility for the team ‘s refuse. [ 14 ]

return key to Mainz 05 ( 2020– ) [edit ]

Heidel returned to Mainz in recently December 2020, replacing the departing Rouven Schröder. The cabaret announced the dismissal of passenger car Jan-Moritz Lichte and the lease of Martin Schmidt as sporting director on the same day, in a bid to avoid relegation. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] This was ultimately successful, as the team won nine of their seventeen games during the irregular half of the season and came in at a safe membership twelve. [ 17 ]

personal life [edit ]

Heidel is the don of two daughters and a son. [ 18 ] He worked as a cable car salesman until 2005, when his car franchise declared bankruptcy. Up to this target, he had managed Mainz 05 on an honorary footing. [ 19 ] In August 2019, Heidel suffered a stroke while vacationing in Turkey. [ 20 ]

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