Axel Schulz (soccer player)

Axel Schulz
Personnel
Surname	Axel Schulz
birthday	May 20th 1959
place of birth	Rostock ,  GDR
size	177 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
1967-1978	FC Hansa Rostock
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1978-1993	FC Hansa Rostock	321 (51)
1993-1994	VfL 1990 Rostock
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1976-1977	DDR Juniors	19 (2)
1979-1985	DDR U-21	5 (0)
1983-1986	DDR Olympia	6 (0)
1984-1985	GDR A	3 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Axel Schulz (born May 20, 1959 in Rostock ) is a former German soccer player and coach. For Hansa Rostock he played in the GDR Oberliga , the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga .

Athletic career

Club / association stations

Axel Schulz was accepted into the FC Hansa Rostock children's team in 1967. Then he went through all mandatory youth teams. In the 1976/77 season Schulz played for Hansa in the junior league , in which he played 15 of the 26 played point games as a midfielder.

He made his first team debut in the 1977/78 season when FC Hansa played in the second-rate GDR league after relegation in the previous season . The high school graduate Schulz played 16 of the 22 point games and all eight encounters in the promotion round to the league and was thus immediately a regular player. In his first league season, 1978/79, the 1.77 m tall midfielder was the only Hansa player who completed all 26 point games. In the following years too, Schulz was a model of consistency. In his prime from 1977 to 1987, he played 94% of all point games played. In the seasons 1981/82 and 1982/83 he was the top scorer in the Hanseatic League with nine and eight goals, although he was always used in midfield. 1981/82 and 1986/87 Schulz had to spend two more seasons in the GDR league after Hansa had previously been relegated from the league.

Schulz completed his last full season in 1989/90, in which he was used in 19 league point games. In most of the matches, the previous midfielder was used as Libero. He was also used in the two first round matches in the UEFA Cup against Baník Ostrava . Hansa Rostock's most successful season in GDR football , which was about to be dissolved, took place in 1990/91, when the Ostseestädter won both the championship and the GDR football cup . In the championship, Axel Schulz was only involved with four point games, he was not used in the cup final (1-0 over Eisenhüttenstädter FC). With the league championship, Hansa Rostock also qualified for the 1st Bundesliga. Here Schulz was only used in eight games at the end of the 1991/92 season. Since the Hanseatic League failed to keep up, they played in the 2nd Bundesliga in the 1992/93 season. Schulz played his last season there for FC Hansa with nine league appearances.

After 17 years with the first team of FC Hansa Rostock, Schulz had the following record:

• 242 GDR league games (38 goals)
• 62 DDR League games (13)
• 8 games in the 1st Bundesliga
• 9 games in the 2nd Bundesliga
• 39 GDR Cup games (10)
• 2 DFB Cup games
• 2 UEFA Cup matches

To train off, Schulz played another season at VfL Rostock in 1993/94 and by winning the championship in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania regional league he was promoted to the fourth-class league from that summer . Schulz later coached the women's team of the successor club SV Rostock Police . Under his leadership, the team rose from the women's Bundesliga. From 1996 to 2009 he was press spokesman for FC Hansa Rostock and has held this position again since the 2010/2011 season.

Selection bets

As a junior player, he was part of the squad of the GDR junior national team . With her he played 19 international matches between April 1976 and April 1977. In the youth competition of friendship , the U-18 of the DFV took 8th place in the summer of 1976 in Bulgaria. For the UEFA junior tournament in 1977, the unofficial European championship in this age group, the GDR juniors did not qualify for the second time in a row.

From 1979 to 1985 he was used in five international matches of the GDR youth team .

1984 Schulz was in the squad of the senior team added. On February 16, 1984 he came to Athens for his first international match. In the 3-1 win against Greece he was used as a left midfielder. Two more international matches followed: on August 11, 1984 in East Berlin against Mexico (1: 1) and on February 6, 1985 against Ecuador (3: 2 victory in Guayaquil ). Schulz came off the bench in both of these games.

In addition to these three international A matches, he was used in two qualifying games of the GDR Olympic team in 1983 and 1984 . In total, he was called up in this team six times until 1986.

literature

• Deutsches Sportecho , May 4, 1978, short biography.
• Uwe Krüger: Hansa Rostock. Data - facts - pictures (East German Traditionsvereine, Volume 2 / AGON Statistics 233), AGON, Kassel 1998 ISBN 3-89609-127-1 .
• Andreas Baingo , Michael Hohlfeld: Soccer selection player of the GDR. The lexicon . Sportverlag Berlin , Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00875-6 , page 163.
• Andreas Baingo , Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , page 339.
• Michael Horn, Gottfried Weise : The great lexicon of GDR football . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-536-8 , pages 310-311.
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , page 454.
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .
• Hanns Leske : The GDR league players. A lexicon . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-392-9 , pages 485-486.

Web links

• Axel Schulz in the database of weltfussball.de
• Axel Schulz in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Axel Schulz in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Axel Schulz in the database of the German Football Association