The name of a man like Felix Magat is well known throughout the football world. After all, he is a famous person. Felix is one of the few athletes who became the champion of Germany as a playing coach. But that is not all. Wolfgang Felix is also the only coach in the entire history of German football who has twice submitted to the “double” (victory in the Cup and the German Championship). And these are not all the interesting facts about his career.
Biography
Felix Magat was born in 1953, July 26, in a city called Aschaffenburg. His mother is German, his father is Puerto Rican, a US Army soldier. A year after the birth of Felix, his father returned to his homeland. So he was brought up by his mother. When he was 15 years old, he sent a letter to his father in Puerto Rico. He sent an answer. However, their meeting took place only in 2000. Felix was already 47 years old. Magat forgave his father for leaving his family. And from that moment, he comes to his parent in El Vosero every two years.
And his career began at FC Victoria, which was based in his hometown. Then he moved to Saarbrücken, who played in the second Bundesliga, and then to Hamburg. In this club, he played for ten years. Until the very end of his career, a defensive midfielder.
By the way, in the national team, his debut took place in 1977, in April. And he defended her colors, too, until 1986, until he ended his playing career.
The beginning of a coaching career
After Felix Magat decided to “hang his boots on a nail,” he became the manager of Hamburg. And then he took the same position at Uerdingen. For a long time he was a manager, but in 1992 he was offered to become a playing coach at FC Bremerhaven. He agreed, but a year later he became a mentor of the second team of FC Hamburg. And in 1995, he began to train and the main staff.
And then it became clear what kind of mentor Felix Magat is. The coach did not tolerate any advice and objections. He did not listen to the players or the club leaders. Once the club management came to the training, which was conducted by Felix. Then he drove them out with shouts: “Why did you come here? It smells of grass! And your place is in the office. ” In 1997, he was fired. But he immediately took the post of head coach in the “Nuremberg” and helped the club go to the Bundesliga. Then he directed and “Bremen”. This team was completely on the verge of relegation from the prestigious league, but Magat managed to save her. At Eintracht, he also did fruitful work. But he was still fired.
Felix was nicknamed Firefighter. And all because he took control of those clubs that were under the threat of “departure” from the elite division.
Training Principles
Felix Magat, whose biography is filled with various interesting facts about his career, is a supporter of very tough physical training methods. He was even called for it Saddam. If he took control of the club, then he constantly increased the intensity of the training process.
And it was he who founded the so-called triple farce-leg system. This is a strength exercise, which consists of a hundred meters of running at a “torn” pace, followed by 100 meters of fast and 100 meters jog.
Other interesting facts
For three seasons, Magat led Stuttgart. He immediately loaded the players with intense training, and thanks to this, the team stayed in the Bundesliga. And a year later, “Stuttgart” rose to the 8th line of the championship rating. And in the next season - and at all on the fourth.
Good results were demonstrated by Bavaria, which was led by Felix Magat from 2004 to 2007. In the first season, the club made a “double”, in the next - repeated success. But due to the fact that the Munich club did not show any success on the international stage, the coach was fired. He was a commentator for some time after that, and then headed the Wolfsburg. After Felix still coached Schalke 01 and Fulham. Since 2016, he has been the head of Shandong Luneng.