Axel Roos

Axel Roos

Personal information
Date of birth	(1964-08-19) 19 August 1964
Place of birth	Rodalben, West Germany
Height
Position(s)	Defender/Midfielder
Team information
Current team	FC Phönix Otterbach
Youth career
0000–1979	TuS Thaleischweiler-Fröschen
1979–1984	1. FC Kaiserslautern
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1984–2001	1. FC Kaiserslautern	328	(19)
Managerial career
0000–2007	Albania (assistant)
2008–	FC Phönix Otterbach U13
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Axel Roos (born 19 August 1964 in Rodalben) is a German football coach and a former player.

He started his professional career in 1984 when he first signed a contract for the German Bundesliga-Team 1. FC Kaiserslautern. He went on to win the Bundesliga in 1991 and 1998, the German DFB-Pokal in 1990 and 1996, as well as the Supercup in 1991. Roos was loyal to his team throughout his entire professional career.

He currently resides in Otterberg, a small town near Kaiserslautern, Germany. After being the assistant coach for the National team of Albania as well as the head coach German fourth-league team FK Pirmasens, he started to be a youth coach for a local amateur team located in Otterbach called FC Phönix Otterbach. Roos is also the head coordinator for the "Axel Roos Fussballschule", a privately owned youth football academy.

Honours

• Bundesliga: 1990–91, 1997–98; runner-up 1993–94
• DFB-Pokal: 1989–90, 1995–96

External links

• Axel Roos Football Academy Homepage (German)