Christian Brand


Christian Brand is a German football coach and former player.

Career

A midfielder, Brand began his career at VfB Oldenburg and made his debut for the club on 27 August 1991 in a match against FC St. Pauli. In his first season Brand played 13 games as Oldenburg narrowly missed out on promotion finishing in second place behind Bayer Uerdingen.

Coaching career

After retiring from football, Brand became the new assistant manager of FC Thun in the summer 2007. On 7 January 2008, he was appointed as a youth coach of the FC Luzern.
After the former coach Rolf Fringer was sacked on 2 May 2011, he was named caretaker manager of the Luzern first team and will be replaced by Murat Yakin at the end of the season.
He was appointed as the head coach of SSV Jahn Regensburg on 18 November 2014.
He was appointed as the head coach of Hansa Rostock on 7 December 2015. He was sacked on 13 May 2017.

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