Franco Foda

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Name Franco Foda Position Defender Years Team Weight 70 kg		1982–1983 1. FSV Mainz 05 Height 1.80 m Playing position Defender Role Football manager Children Sandro Foda

Date of birth (1966-04-23) 23 April 1966 (age 49) Current team SK Sturm Graz (manager) Teams coached SK Sturm Graz (Manager, since 2014), 1. FC Kaiserslautern (Manager, 2012–2013) Similar People Sandro Foda, Darko Milanic, Stefan Kuntz, Peter Hyballa, Kosta Runjaic
Place of birth Mainz, West Germany

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Franco Foda (born 23 April 1966 in Mainz) is a German football manager and former player.

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Playing career

Foda played as a defender with his home town club 1. FSV Mainz 05. He turned professional, playing for 1. FC Kaiserslautern for three matches in 1983–84), then moving to Arminia Bielefeld followed by 1. FC Saarbrücken, playing in both the first and second division. He then returned to Kaiserslautern for three further seasons, and played as a substitute in the West German national team in December 1987 against Brazil (1–1) and Argentina (0–1).

Foda joined Bayer 04 Leverkusen in 1990, where he was a key defensive player and scored four league goals in his fourth season, as Leverkusen finished third. He then played with VfB Stuttgart, FC Basel (a short 1997 spell) and SK Sturm Graz, retiring in 2001 at 35, having played 321 German first division matches.

Early career

Foda moved into coaching with Sturm Graz as an assistant coach. He had been interim head coach between 20 September 2002 until November 2002. At this point, Foda became the permanent head coach until they hired Gilbert Gress to become the head coach on 4 June 2003. He then went on to coach the reserve team immediately after to when he was promoted to head coach of the first team on 1 June 2006. Sturm Graz won the 2010–11 Bundesliga and the 2009–10 Austrian Cup under Foda. He was originally scheduled to leave after the 2011–12 season. However, he ended up being sacked on 12 April 2012 after the club was knocked–out of the Austrian Cup.

1. FC Kaiserslautern

On 22 May 2012, Foda was announced as new head coach of 1. FC Kaiserslautern, who had just been relegated to the second division after two seasons in the top flight. On 29 August 2013, he was sacked as head coach with immediate effect.