Michael Molata

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Michael Molata
Personnel
birthday February 10, 1973
place of birth Bad Langensalza ,  GDR
size 190 cm
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
0000-1985 BSG WK Schmalkalden
1985-1991 FC Carl Zeiss Jena
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1991-1995 FC Carl Zeiss Jena 111 (18)
1995-1997 Arminia Bielefeld 42 0(5)
1997-1998 Hamburger SV 13 0(0)
1998-2000 Karlsruher SC 56 0(2)
2000-2001 Hannover 96 24 0(2)
2001-2002 SV Babelsberg 03 10 0(2)
2002-2004 1. FC Union Berlin 51 0(1)
2004-2007 Holstein Kiel 74 (13)
1 Only league games are given.

Michael Molata (born February 10, 1973 in Bad Langensalza ) is a former German soccer player. The defensive player played his career mainly in the 2nd Bundesliga .

Athletic career

In 1985, Molata moved from the company sports association Werkzeugkombinat Schmalkalden in the south of what is now Thuringia to FC Carl Zeiss Jena , the focus of training in GDR football in the former districts of Gera, Suhl and Erfurt. With the youth team of the FCC he won the bronze medal in the championship in 1989 . In the game he won for 3rd place (4-0 against FC Vorwärts Frankfurt II ), he was one of the Jena goalscorers alongside the later national team player Ronald Maul .

Under coach Klaus Schlappner, Molata moved as a junior player in the course of the second division season 1991/92 in the professional squad of FC Carl Zeiss. At the side of players like Uwe Szangolies , Mario Röser , Udo Fankhänel and Matthias Wentzel , he established himself in the following season under the new coach Reiner Hollmann on the defensive of the East German club, with whom he finished eighth in the table. In the season 1993/94 luck left the club, under Uwe Erkenbrecher he occupied a relegation place with the team. Nevertheless, he remained loyal to the club, with which he managed direct promotion to the second division.

As a young regular player, Molata drew attention to himself and was signed by second division promoted Arminia Bielefeld . In the team around Jörg Bode , Peter Hobday , Stefan Studtrucker , Armin Eck and Ronald Maul , he immediately established himself as a regular player and helped the club to march through to the Bundesliga with three goals in 31 season appearances . Here he lost his regular place due to injury, so that he moved on to Hamburger SV after the end of the season . Here, too, he was hardly able to prevail against the competition for Ingo Hertzsch , Thomas Gravesen , Stefan Schnoor and Stefan Böger , so that he only stayed one season at the north German club.

Molata returned to the second division and signed a contract with Karlsruher SC . With the relegated Baden, he played for a direct return to the Bundesliga. Under coach Rainer Ulrich , he was one of the regulars alongside Christian Fährmann , Guido Buchwald , Marc Kienle and Jens Bäumer , who led the club to fifth place in the table with two points behind the last promotion place occupied by SSV Ulm in 1846 . After the success failed in the following season under the coaches Rainer Ulrich, Joachim Loew and Edmund Becker and the team relegated to the third division for the first time, he accepted an offer from the league competitor Hannover 96 .

After a season in Lower Saxony, Molata moved on to SV Babelsberg 03 . At the Potsdamer Klub he hardly got a chance due to an injury and could not prevent relegation to the third division. He then joined 1. FC Union Berlin , for which he played in the second division for two years. When he was relegated here too, he left the club in the direction of Holstein Kiel . After two and a half years in the regional league , he ended his active career in November 2006 due to an injury.

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personal data
SURNAME Molata, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Langensalza