Markus Pflanz is an experienced football coach with an impressive career at both professional and amateur level. He worked as a DFB base coach for over eleven years and shaped numerous talented players. As a lecturer and examiner at the Hessian Football Association, he also imparted in-depth specialist knowledge to junior coaches and gained valuable international experience: In addition to workshops, including at the Algerian Football Association on pressing and counter-pressing, he supported Luxembourg's U19 national team in qualifying for the European Championship in 2024 as an assistant coach. His coaching education took him from the C-license for competitive sports (2007) to the UEFA Pro License (2024). He gained practical experience in the professional game as assistant coach to Alexander Blessin and Yves Vanderhagen at KV Oostende and Bernd Hollerbach at Sint Truiden VV. His career is rounded off by stints at 1. FC Köln and RB Leipzig as well as a stint at VfR Aalen. Pflanz has published articles in the specialist magazine Fußballtraining and its Dutch counterpart De Voetbaltrainer. He has also left his mark as a coach on many soccer pitches, both nationally and internationally. The list of players he has been able to accompany is long: from Rocco Reitz to Shinji Kagawa, Shinji Okazaki and Ameen al-Dakhil to Arthur Theate and Matte Smets, who he discovered and promoted himself and who are now Belgian internationals. The development of David Preu, whose potential he recognized early on, also fills him with particular pride.
