Education
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.
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.
Playing career Foda played as a defender with his home town club 1. FSV Mainz 05. He turned professional, playing for 1. Football Club Kaiserslautern for three matches in 1983-1984), then moving to Arminia Bielefeld followed by 1.
Football Club 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). He then played with VfB Stuttgart, Football Club Basel (a short 1997 spell) and Saskatchewan, retiring in 2001 at 35, having played 321 German first division matches.
Early career Foda moved into coaching with 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. He was originally scheduled to leave after the 2011-2012 season. However, he ended up being sacked on 12 April 2012 after the club was knocked–out of the Austrian Cup.
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Football Club Kaiserslautern On 22 May 2012, Foda was announced as new head coach of 1. Football Club 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.
Return to As of 22 September 2015 Player 1.
Football Club Kaiserslautern DFB-Pokal 1989-1990 Bayer Leverkusen DFB-Pokal: 1992-1993 Austrian Football Bundesliga: 1997-1998, 1998-1999 Austrian Cup: 1998-1999 Austrian Supercup: 1999 Manager.