In addition, he helmed the Indonesian U-12 football team during the Danone Nations Cup in 2012 and 2013 and his last managerial position was with Persiba Balikpapan.

By the end of the year 1998, he was invited for trials at Eintracht Frankfurt, Stuttgarter Kickers (in Germany) and Gillingham in England.

After that, he was asked to control Indonesia women's national football team for SEA Games 2009.

He also has a niece named Claudia, also a footballer who plays for the Indonesia women's national team.

[3] A German but born in post-independence Indonesia to expatriate cum immigrant parents from Germany, he is a native speaker of German but also speaks his adoptive country's national language of Indonesian and the local Javanese language fluently, because he spent most of his childhood as well as his adulthood in East Java province (especially in his birthplace of Kediri as well as his adoptive hometown of Malang alike) and also Indonesia as a whole, in which that made him fluently speaking the above two languages in addition to his own mother tongue.