Wolfgang Felix Magath is a German football manager and former player.
45 Facts About Felix Magath
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Felix Magath gained 43 international caps for the West Germany national team, winning UEFA Euro 1980 and reaching two consecutive World Cup finals.
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Felix Magath has a reputation of demanding strong discipline and thorough training.
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In 2014, Felix Magath coached English club Fulham, becoming the first German to manage in the Premier League.
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Felix Magath spent the following ten seasons with Hamburg, and from his debut in 1976 to his retirement he scored 46 goals in 306 games in the West German top flight.
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Felix Magath represented the West Germany national team at many international events, including the 1982 and 1986 FIFA World Cups, helping West Germany finish in second place both times.
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Felix Magath was part of the squad that won the 1980 UEFA European Championship.
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Felix Magath left Hamburg in June 1988 after moderate success.
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Felix Magath took up coaching in 1992 as a player-coach for the fourth-tier club FC Bremerhaven, which he led to division championship.
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Felix Magath then rejoined Hamburger SV as reserves coach in 1993, and became manager Benno Mohlmann's assistant soon after.
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Felix Magath succeeded Mohlmann as manager after the latter was sacked in October 1995.
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Felix Magath finished with a record of 28 wins, 19 draws, and 22 losses.
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Felix Magath finished with a record of 16 wins, eight draws, and five losses.
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Felix Magath helped Bremen get to the final of the DFB-Pokal however he was sacked before the final itself, which Bremen won in his absence.
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Felix Magath had nine wins, seven draws, and ten losses.
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An impressive Felix Magath-inspired run saw Frankfurt finish the second round as third best and four points off relegation.
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Felix Magath was sacked the season after when Frankfurt found themselves in the relegation zone.
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Felix Magath finished with record of 15 wins, five draws, and 17 losses.
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Felix Magath bounced back with what was to become one of his most successful stints when he took over fellow relegation battlers VfB Stuttgart a few weeks after.
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The Stuttgart stint was the first time Felix Magath combined the head coach and the director of football roles.
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Felix Magath finished with a record of 73 wins, 37 draws, and 37 losses.
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Felix Magath finished with a record of 84 wins, 25 draws, and 22 losses.
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In June 2007, Felix Magath signed a contract with VfL Wolfsburg, as head coach and director of football.
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Felix Magath finished with a record of 46 wins, 18 draws, and 21 losses.
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Felix Magath finished with a record of 42 wins, 16 draws, and 21 losses.
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Only 48 hours later, on 18 March, Felix Magath signed with now relegation-battling VfL Wolfsburg, the side he had previously led to the league title in 2009.
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Felix Magath finished with a record of 18 wins, 10 draws, and 24 losses.
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On 14 February 2014, Fulham released a statement that Felix Magath would be their new first team manager effective immediately on an eighteen-month contract.
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Felix Magath brought in Tomas Oral as first team coach and Werner Leuthard as the person in charge of conditioning while the club dismissed manager Rene Meulensteen, assistant coach Ray Wilkins, technical director Alan Curbishley, and first team coaches Mick Priest and Jonathan Hill.
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Felix Magath believed that he could save Fulham from relegation and that 12 matches was enough to save the club.
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Felix Magath picked up four points from his first six matches and answered questions about a potential resignation.
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On 18 September 2014 Felix Magath was sacked as Fulham manager after a run of eleven league games without a win.
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Felix Magath finished with a record of four wins, four draws, and 12 losses.
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Felix Magath eventually took the job at Shandong Luneng Taishan, replacing former Brazil national football team manager Mano Menezes.
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Felix Magath led Luneng throughout the 2017 Chinese Super League, finishing 6th, but left the club shortly after the end of the season.
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In January 2020, Felix Magath revealed that his time as a coach was over and that he wanted to "help football in a different way".
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Felix Magath became responsible for FLYERALARM's commitment to the clubs Wurzburger Kickers in Germany and Flyeralarm Admira, formerly known as FC Admira Wacker Modling.
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On 17 March 2022, Felix Magath tested positive for COVID-19 and had to postpone his debut match.
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Felix Magath was once described by former Eintracht Frankfurt player Bachirou Salou as the "last dictator in Europe".
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Felix Magath stated that Hangeland did not have a thigh injury but an inflammation of the knee, and that he suggested the additional use of an alternative treatment with a bandage consisting of Quark.
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Fulham player Sascha Riether later said that the story was greatly exaggerated and that Felix Magath had suggested he use a traditional topfen curd.
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Felix Magath is the son of a Puerto Rican former soldier in the United States Army stationed in Aschaffenburg and a German mother.
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In 1954, Felix Magath's father abandoned Felix Magath and his mother to return to his homeland.
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The adolescent Felix Magath first heard from his father when he was 15 years old, after he wrote a letter to Puerto Rico.
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Felix Magath is a chess enthusiast, an interest which he developed during the 1978 World Chess Championship while he was bedridden due to hepatitis.