Marcel Koller
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| Marcel Koller | ||
| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | Marcel Koller | |
| Date of birth | November 11, 1960 | |
| Place of birth | Zürich, Switzerland | |
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | |
| Playing position | Manager (former Defender) | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club |  VfL Bochum |
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| Youth career | ||
| 1972-1980 |  Grasshopper-Club Zürich |
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| Senior career1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1980-1997 | Grasshopper-Club Zürich |
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| National team | ||
| ?-1996 | Switzerland |
56 (3) |
| Teams managed | ||
| 1997-1998 1998-2001 2002-2003 2003-2004 2005- |
FC Wil FC St. Gallen Grasshopper-Club Zürich 1. FC Köln VfL Bochum |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Marcel Koller (born in Zürich, November 11, 1960) is a former Swiss football (soccer) player and is currently the coach of German football club VfL Bochum.
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[edit] As player
Koller played all 24 years of his career for Swiss club Grasshoppers Zürich. He won seven Swiss championships and five Swiss cups. For the Swiss national team he got 56 international caps, scored 3 goals and participated at Euro 1996.
[edit] In Switzerland
Koller's career as coach started the Swiss club FC Wil in the season 1997/98. He led his club to a promotion place in the Swiss Challenge League. In January 1999 he went to FC St.Gallen in the Swiss Super League. Koller led this club to its first championship for almost 100 years in 2000. FC St.Gallen eliminated FC Chelsea in the Uefa Cup. Koller was voted Swiss manager of the year 2000.
On January 9, 2002, he went to his old love Grasshoppers Zürich. Koller won his second championship as a coach in the 2003 Season. After failing to qualify for the Champions League (against AEK 1-0/1-3) and a losing streak in the league he resigned on October 3, 2003.
[edit] At 1. FC Köln
The next step in his career was a move to German Bundesliga. Koller's first station in Germany was 1. FC Köln. He coached this club from November, 2nd 2003 till June, 14th 2004 but couldn't prevent them from relegation to the Second Bundesliga. In his period as coach he gave young talents the opportunity to debut on the highest level. So he is widely seen as the discoverer of German player Lukas Podolski. 1. FC Köln ended at last position and Koller was given leave.
[edit] At VfL Bochum
Since May 23, 2005 Marcel Koller is coach of German side VfL Bochum. The club was relegated into the Second Bundesliga and its coach Peter Neururer was sacked after that season. Koller got the challenge to lead the club directly back to the highest level. Already five matches before the end of the season VfL Bochum was sure of its return to the Bundesliga.
The goal of season 2006/07 was to stay in the Bundesliga. VfL Bochum didn’t start very well and many supporters asked for the dismissal for the coach. But the board kept faith in the coach and Koller’s contract was even extended in that difficult period. VfL Bochum bought a few new players in the winter break and started a winning streak. The club won two memorable home matches against the arch rivals Borussia Dortmund (2-0) and FC Schalke 04. (2-1). Bochum even had a winning streak of four away victories in a row at the end of the season, a new club record. Already two rounds for the end of the season VfL Bochum was sure of staying in the Bundesliga. The club finished in 8th place, the third highest finish for Bochum ever.
The VfL Bochum lost three important players in the summer break 2007 so that most observers were rather sceptical about the club in the season 2007/08. But the club played a solid season and ended, without to much relegation troubles, in the midfield. However, at the beginning of the season 2008/09 Koller defined 45 points as target. Surprisingly Bochum didn't have to sell kep players and could even affort some relatively spectacular transfers. With the return of former key players Paul Freier and Vahid Hashemian, and the purchase of the talents Daniel Fernandes and Austrian international Christian Fuchs Koller called his team the best team he had at Bochum ever.
| Preceded by Peter Neururer |
VfL Bochum Manager 2005- |
Succeeded by none |
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