Rene Wagner joined the Barry University men’s soccer coaching staff as asssitant coach in April of 2019.
He brings a strong network in all areas of soccer, after a playing career in Europe and diverse experience in the US, including playing, coaching and supervising. He has also served as the head coach for the U13 boys with the Palm Beach Gardens Predators.
Wagner played one season with the Sharks at Hawai’i Pacific, helping them to an 8-6-3 mark in 2012. He then went on to be a graduate assistant under coach Chris Fisher in 2015 and 2016.
Wagner, a native of Dresden, Germany, played with several clubs in the Bundesliga, including SG Dynamo Dresden, VFB Oldenburg, Wacker Nordhausen.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in business and economics from Technische Universität Dresden in 2015 and a master of arts in human resource management from HPU in 2017.
He holds an Elite Youth License and a B Level from the Deutscher Fußball Bund.