At the age of 80
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Former Bundesliga coach and player Egon Coordes is dead. The long -time assistant of Udo Lattek, Jupp Heynckes and Giovanni Trapattoni died on Tuesday at the age of 80 after a long illness in his house in Memmingen. This was confirmed by his family of the “German Press Agency”.
Coordes became known primarily as an assistant coach of FC Bayern Munich: at the side of Lattek and Heynckes, he won a total of four German championships in 1985, 1986, 1989 and 1990. In 1997, the German record champion brought the football teacher from Bremerhaven back as a trapattoni assistant. In 2011 and 2012, Coordes worked again in the Heynckes coaching staff and then even in the coaching staff of the Bayern basketball players.
Coordes’ head trainer stations in the first and second division were less successful. At VfB Stuttgart (1986/87), Hamburger SV (1992) and Hannover 96 (1995/96), he had to go early. Otherwise, he also worked as a coach in Austria, Switzerland, in the Golf region and in 1999 also in Iran. Coordes played a total of 157 Bundesliga games for Werder Bremen and VfB Stuttgart as a professional. Before moving to Munich, his coaching career began in his hometown Bremerhaven.