Appointed Wednesday, Volker Finker will receive a budget of 10 million CFA francs (20,000 euros), depending on negotiations and wage claims of different applicants. The German for his first time experience a position of a coach with the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon.

Aged of 65 years, the technician is a good trainer of football. Polyglot for his ability to speak fluently English, French, German, Volker Finker is considered by Cameroonian leaders as a “good customer.”

His football career was not a brilliant career. He quickly abandoned the cleats taking place on the sidelines in a modest training TSV Stelingen that he led to five promotions in 11 years. He signed a contract in 1986 with TSV Havelse and managed to place the club in the second division. He was offered a one-year contract with SC Freiburg after a brief stint at SC Norderstedt. He remains in the club for 16 years. He managed to drive at his best ranking with a great story occupying the third spot. Better, he led the club in the Bundesliga and maintains accuracy in the elite division.

This is a very different season Volker Finke and his players engage in 1994-1995 with a surprising third place rank in the history of the club in the Bundesliga so far. SC Freiburg therefore plays briefly in the UEFA Cup in 1995-1996 where they were eliminated in the first round by Slavia Prague, later semi-finalist of the event. The result is less rosy with an eleventh place in 1995-1996 and seventeenth place in 1996-1997. After four years in the top flight, so it is a return to the second division for the club. However, leaders maintain their trust in Finke and SC Freiburg ascend immediately finishing in second place in 1997-1998.

He continued his career in Germany before taking the direction of Japan, where he will hold Urawa Red. The team finished in 6th place in his first year. He returned to Germany and found the FC Cologne, with whom he played for the first time the UEFA Cup in 1995-1996.

In conclusion, he heads in sixteen years SC Freiburg, ten years in first division and six in the second division, two-time champion of the second division in particular in 1993 and 2003 and runner-up in the second division in 1998.

Since May 22, he was coach of Cameroon.

Key dates:

Years                                                           Team Stats

1975-1986                                                  TSV Stelingen

1986-1990                                                TSV Havelse

1990-1991                                                SC Norderstedt

1991-2007                                               SC Freiburg

December 2008-Dec. 2010                 Urawa Red
Avr. 2012-jun 2012                               FC Cologne
Mai. 2013-…                                          Cameroun