Gert Engels is a successful German football coach and former Bundesliga player with decades-long connections to East Asia.

Coming from a football family,[1] Engels initially played for Borussia Mönchengladbach during their golden decade and later completed a degree in sports science before starting his coaching career in Japan.

He supports Japanese youth players physically and mentally and helps place them with professional clubs in Germany and Japan.

"[3] Gert Engels began his playing career at SG Düren 99 and later joined Borussia Mönchengladbach, where he was part of the extended squad during the club's most successful period in the 1970s.

In 2011, Engels became the head coach of the Mozambique national football team, resigning two years later due to unsatisfactory results.

For the next five years, Engels focused on his football school in Germany before returning to Japan in 2018 as an assistant coach for Vissel Kobe, working with Takayuki Yoshida, one of his former students.