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Roger Prinzen

German footballer (1969–2026)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ2161846
Source-derived summary

Roger Prinzen (4 March 1969 – 13 April 2026) was a German football player and manager.

Coaching career

Prinzen was head coach of Balzers and was assistant coach at Vaduz in Liechtenstein.

He was normally the U–23 coach for 1. FC Nürnberg. He took over the U–23 team on 21 June 2013. However, during the 2013–14 season, he took over on an interim basis on 7 October 2013 when Michael Wiesinger was sacked and on 23 April 2014 when Gertjan Verbeek was sacked. Rainer Zietsch took over the U–23 team on 19 October 2013 while Prinzen was coaching the first team. Valérien Ismaël succeeded Prinzen on 5 June 2014.

Death

Prinzen died on 13 April 2026, at the age of 57.

Editorial summary

“Roger Prinzen” enters the record as german footballer (1969–2026). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Roger, Prinzen and German can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1969, 2026, 2013, 2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1969-03-04. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Roger, Prinzen and German.
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“Roger Prinzen” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Roger, Prinzen and German provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2161846. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1969, 2026, 2013 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from Roger Prinzen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.