Michael Krüger (born May 28, 1954, in Scharnebeck) is a German football coach and former football player.

[edit] Career

He played for Arminia Hannover in the 2nd Bundesliga.

[edit] Coaching career

Krüger began his coaching career as assistant-coach from Peter Neururer with FC Schalke 04, in September 1989 was named as the new head coach of the 2 Football League club Hannover 96, after one year was suspended. He works than 1999 one year for the lower legaue team VfV Hildesheim, before signed an contact as assistant coach from Erich Rutemöِller by F.C. Hansa Rostock. In the 1994/95 season Krüger took the coaching job at Holstein Kiel. He then worked in Egypt, he coached the club Arab Contractors and won the African Cup and one year later, he led the club to win the Egyptian Al-Masri Cup. In the year 1998 he returned to Germany and was named as the head coach of Kickers Emden and later took the same job at the second team of VfL Wolfsburg.

From 15 March 2004 was Krueger head coach of Eintracht Braunschweig and led the club back in the second Bundesliga in 2006. On 4 October 2006, Kruger was fired with assistant Wolfgang Loos by the Lower Saxony club. On 13 June 2007 Krueger was named as the new Head coach of the regional league relegated team 1. FC Saarbrücken, he follows the fired Wolfgang Loos who was released in April 2007.

In January 2008 Krueger went back to Africa to coach Sudanese club Al-Merreikh, he led Al-Merreikh to win the Sudanese Premier League cup in November 2008. The last cup win from the team was in 2002, he introduced the team to win the Sudan Cup in December 2008. In 2008 he won the double with his club Al-Merreikh^[1] and signed on 21 September 2009 an contract as Head Coach by Alemannia Aachen^[2].

[edit] Personal information

His full-time job is as a sports and geography teacher.

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