For the former Manchester City player, see Colin Bell

Colin Bell

Colin Bell MBE , is a former English football player who was born in Hesleden, County Durham, England. Nicknamed "The King of the Kippax" , and Nijinsky after the famous racehorse , Bell is widely regarded as Manchester City's greatest ever player...

Colin Bell (born August 5, 1961) is an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 former footballer, now a coach based in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. Bell began his career at Leicester City

Leicester City F.C.

Leicester City Football Club , also known as The Foxes, is an English professional football club based at the King Power Stadium in Leicester...

, but did not break into the first team, and left for Germany aged 20.

Career

In Germany, Bell played for VfL Hamm and Mainz 05, featuring in the 2. Bundesliga for the latter, before retiring to take up coaching in 1989. He managed TuS Koblenz

TuS Koblenz

TuS Koblenz is a German association football club, located in Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate. Fussball Club Deutschland Neuendorf, which was formed in 1911, is viewed as the foundation of the modern club.-Play under the Third Reich:...

 for seven years, before joining the coaching staff at 1. FC Köln

1. FC Köln

1. FC Köln is a German association football club based in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia. It was formed in 1948 as a merger of the clubs Kölner Ballspiel-Club 1901 and SpVgg Sülz 07....

 in 1996. In 1999 he took on his most high-profile role to date, managing Dynamo Dresden

Dynamo Dresden

SG Dynamo Dresden are a German association football club, based in Dresden, Saxony. They were founded in 1950, as a club affiliated with the East German police, and became one of the most popular and successful clubs in East German football, winning eight league titles...

, but was not successful - the team failed to qualify for the restructured Regionalliga

Regionalliga

Regionalliga is a designation in Germany for sports leagues, which are led by one or more regional federations. Regionalligen often fall below the Bundesliga and 2nd Bundesliga of a given sport...

, and dropped to the Oberliga

Oberliga (football)

The Oberliga is currently the name of the fifth tier of the German football leagues. Before the introduction of the 3rd Liga in 2008, it was the fourth tier...

 (level 4) for the first time. He was sacked before the end of the season.

After spells managing Waldhof Mannheim, FSV Mainz's reserve team, and Preußen Münster, he worked at TuS Koblenz has Assistant Manager and youth coach. 2011 he signed for SC 07 Bad Neuenahr

SC 07 Bad Neuenahr

SC 07 Bad Neuenahr is a German football club from Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate. The best-known section within the club is its women's football team, which was founded in 1969 and won the German Championship in 1978...

 in Germany's women's Bundesliga

Fußball-Bundesliga (women)

The Women's Football Bundesliga is the main league competition for women's football in Germany. In 1990 the German Football Association created the German Women's Bundesliga, based on the model of the men's Bundesliga. It was first played with north and south divisions, but in 1997 the groups...

.

External links

• Profile at fsv05.de