[2] Coordes later started his professional game career in the late 60s with Regionalliga North TuS Bremerhaven 93 and became well-known beyond the team.
[3] Coordes quickly moved to the top-ranked Bundesliga in 1971, playing through the rest of his career as "Defender" at SV Werder Bremen and VfB Stuttgart.
[11] When Coordes first entered professional football coaching (with OSC Bremerhaven on 13 March 1982) he declared that his players should "fight and bite like the lions.
[13] However, Coordes was roughly viewed for most of his football career as a coach who "leads a hard regiment, which does not necessarily result in an increased affection of its professionals.
For one of many examples, in 1994 while Coordes was coaching for FK Austria Wien he once dropped legendary player Andreas Ogris from the squad for being five minutes late.
[17][18] In 1993, Coordes moved via the Shabab Al Ahli Club to the Al-Nasr, the first and oldest football league in the United Arab Emirates.
"[27] In the similar period Coordes became credited with originally discovering Hansi Flick, a legend in the European football world.