David Klein (footballer)

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David Klein
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Personal information
Full name David Klein
Date of birth (1973-08-13) 13 August 1973 (age 51)
Place of birth Mulhouse, France
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Auxerre B (gk coach)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1995–1998 Strasbourg 8 (0)
1998 Toulouse 0 (0)
1998–2000 Ajaccio 62 (0)
2000–2001 Metz 2 (0)
2001 Clydebank 1 (0)
2001 Partick Thistle 5 (0)
2001 Martigues 9 (0)
2001–2002 Clermont Foot 2 (0)
2002–2003 Martigues 37 (0)
2003 La Roche-sur-Yon 3 (0)
2003–2006 Valenciennes 102 (0)
2006–2007 Niort 48 (0)
2008–2009 RC Strasbourg 0 (0)
Managerial career
2009–2010 RC Strasbourg B (gk coach)
2010–2011 RC Strasbourg (gk coach)
2011–2014 Valenciennes B (gk coach)
2014–2017 Valenciennes (gk coach)
2018–2019 Mauritania (gk coach)
2019– Auxerre B (gk coach)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

David Klein (born 13 August 1973) is a retired French goalkeeper and current goalkeeper coach of Auxerre's B-team.

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Career

Post retirement

After retiring at the end of the 2008-09 season, Klein started that same summer as goalkeeping coach for RC Strasbourg's B team. [1] In the summer of 2010, he stepped up as goalkeeping coach of the club's first team squad, replacing Alexander Vencel (footballer, born 1967), under new manager Laurent Fournier. [2] [3]

In the summer of 2011 he was hired in the same position for Valenciennes' B team. [4] Ahead of the 2014-15 season, Klein was promoted to the first team squad as goalkeeping coach under manager Faruk Hadžibegić's staff. [5] In May 2017, it was confirmed that Klein's contract was not extended and he left the club. [6]

Not long after leaving Valenciennes, Klein started his own goalkeeping academy. [7] Among other things, Klein, under his own goalkeeping academy 'J4K Valenciennes', was responsible for goalkeeper training at the club La Sentinelle, which played in the Hauts-de-France league in France. [8]

In the 2018-19 season, Klein was the goalkeeping coach for the Mauritania national football team ahead of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations. [9]

Ahead of the 2019-20 season, Klein was appointed goalkeeper coach of Auxerre's reserve team. [10]

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