Martin Forkel

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Martin Forkel
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Forkel in 2019
Personal information
Date of birth (1979-07-22) 22 July 1979 (age 43)
Place of birth Coburg, West Germany
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s) Right-back
Youth career
1986–1994 Viktoria DJK Coburg
1994–1995 VfB Coburg
1995–1998 Greuther Fürth
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1998–1999 Greuther Fürth 1 (0)
1999–2000 Borussia Fulda 33 (4)
2000–2006 Wacker Burghausen 161 (3)
2006–2010 TuS Koblenz 69 (1)
2010–2012 1. FC Saarbrücken 67 (2)
2012–2013 Borussia Neunkirchen 33 (0)
2013 1. FC Saarbrücken II 11 (0)
2013–2014 1. FC Saarbrücken 23 (0)
2014–2015 1. FC Saarbrücken II 12 (1)
Total410(11)
International career
1999 Germany U-21 6 (0)
Managerial career
2014–2015 1. FC Saarbrücken (youth) [1]
2014–2015 1. FC Saarbrücken II (playing manager) [1] [2]
2015–2016 1. FC Saarbrücken U19 [3] [4]
2015 1. FC Saarbrücken (caretaker) [5]
2016–2017 Vietnam (caretaker)
2018–2019 Ho Chi Minh City
2019 Esteghlal (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Martin Forkel (born 22 July 1979) is a German football manager and former defender. [6]

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Career

Youth career

Forkel was born in Coburg. He played as a youth for two clubs in his hometown, Viktoria DJK Coburg and VfB Coburg, before joining TSV Vestenbergsgreuth. TSV merged with SpVgg Fürth in 1996, forming SpVgg Greuther Fürth, with whom Forkel would make his breakthrough in the professional game.

Southern Germany

Forkel made one appearance for SpVgg Greuther Fürth, as a substitute for Arie van Lent in a 3–1 win over FSV Mainz in the 2. Bundesliga in December 1998. He was released by the club at the end of the 1998–99 season, signing for Borussia Fulda of the Regionalliga Süd. Fulda were relegated in Forkel's only season with the club, finishing 17th, but he was to stay at the third tier, signing for Wacker Burghausen in July 2000.

In Forkel's first season with Burghausen, the club battled against relegation, but were promoted as champions in 2001–02, with Forkel and ever-present. He would go on to play for the club for four seasons in the 2. Bundesliga, achieving a mid-table finish each time, before leaving to join TuS Koblenz in July 2006.

Western Germany

Forkel made his debut for TuS Koblenz on the opening day of the 2006–07 season, as a substitute for Rüdiger Ziehl in a 2–1 defeat against MSV Duisburg. As at Burghausen, he would play for four seasons in the 2. Bundesliga, although his appearances were more restricted, and his time at Koblenz ended with the club being relegated to the 3. Liga in 2010.

Forkel then joined another 3. Liga club, 1. FC Saarbrücken, where he would spend the next two seasons as a regular in the first team. He was released by the club in 2012, and spent a year with Borussia Neunkirchen of the Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar. In July 2013 he returned to Saarbrücken, originally to play for their reserve team, but after coach Jürgen Luginger was replaced with Milan Šašić he was brought back into the first-team fold. He made his second debut for the club in September 2013 as a substitute for Philipp Hoffmann in a 1–0 defeat to SV Darmstadt 98, and remained a first-team regular until the end of the season, which saw Saarbrücken relegated. Forkel then left the club for a second time.

International career

Forkel was in the Germany squad for the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship, and made six appearances for the under-21 team that same year.

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  2. ↑ "Bernd Eichmann kein FCS-Trainer mehr" (in German). fupa.net. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
  3. ↑ "1. FC Saarbrücken meldet U23 ab" (in German). sr-online.de. Archived from the original on 21 June 2015. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
  4. ↑ "U19: Mario Baric übernimmt für Martin Forkel" (in German). wochenspiegelonline.de. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  5. ↑ "Saarbrücken trennt sich von Trainer Kilic" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  6. ↑ "Forkel, Martin" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
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