Axel Wittke

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Axel Wittke
Personnel
birthday March 25, 1960
place of birth Oebisfelde ,  GDR
size 178 cm
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
0000-1968 BSG development Börde Magdeburg
1968-1988 1. FC Magdeburg
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1978-1988 1. FC Magdeburg 149 (13)
1988-1990 1. FC Union Berlin 37 0(3)
1990-1991 Eisenhüttenstädter FC Stahl 24 0(1)
1991-1994 FC Carl Zeiss Jena 101 (10)
1995-1997 VfB Leipzig 25 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1980 DDR U-21 3 (0)
1987 DDR Olympia 7 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2008-2009 1. Suhler SV
1 Only league games are given.

Axel Wittke (born March 25, 1960 in Oebisfelde ) is a former German football player who was active in the GDR Oberliga and the 2nd Bundesliga . With 1. FC Magdeburg he won the GDR cup in the 1982/83 season . He played for the East German Olympic team and was previously in the junior and junior national teams of the DFV . After his active career, Wittke also worked as a trainer .

Athletic career

1. FC Magdeburg

Wittke came in 1968 from BSG Aufbau Börde Magdeburg to the student team of 1. FC Magdeburg and went through the other junior teams there. For the 1978/79 season, FCM Wittke nominated for the first time for its league squad, in which he was intended as a midfielder.

For his first use in the Magdeburg first division team, he came in the cup game at Stahl Thale on October 14, 1978. Then he had to wait sixteen months before he was called up for the first time in a league point game. During this time he was used in the junior league. On the 14th matchday of the 1979/80 season, February 23, 1980, he replaced in the encounter Wismut Aue - 1. FCM (0-0) the not ready Klaus Decker as a right midfielder. Wittke ended this season with a total of ten league games. He made his breakthrough as a regular player in the 1982/83 season, in which he played 20 of the total of 26 league point games.

On June 4, 1983, he celebrated the greatest success of his sporting career by winning the GDR soccer cup. In the 4-0 final victory over FC Karl-Marx-Stadt , he expanded the Elbe city's leadership with the second Magdeburg goal. Wittke played most of his season point games in the 1984/85 season, when he was used 23 times. At the end of the 1987/88 season there were 149 league games with 13 goals on his account, plus 21 national cup games (3 goals) and four appearances in the European Cup.

1. FC Union

In the summer of 1988 Wittke moved from 1. FC Magdeburg to the league competitor 1. FC Union Berlin . But since the FCM refused to release, Wittke was banned for six months. It was only on matchday 13, December 3, 1988, that he was used for the first time in the league team in the match 1. FC Union - Dynamo Dresden (1: 3). He scored the 1: 1 in the meantime, but then missed a penalty. During his first union season, Wittke was used in a total of 14 league point games. Union ended the season as relegated, so Wittke had to play in the second-rate GDR league for a year . There he played 23 of the 34 point games, but missed promotion to the league at the end of the season.

Eisenhüttenstadt, Jena and Leipzig

Wittke therefore joined the Eisenhüttenstädter FC Stahl at the beginning of the 1990/91 season , which had already played in the major league for a year. He was used in 24 of the 26 point games, but could not prevent the Eisenhüttenstadt team from missing qualification for the 2nd Bundesliga with rank 9. Wittke took this as an opportunity to leave the EFC after a year and join FC Carl Zeiss Jena , which had qualified for the 2nd Bundesliga. In Jena, too, Wittke immediately became a regular player and played 100 second division games in three seasons from 1991 to 1994. In 1994 Jena was relegated to the third division regional league and Wittke turned to VfB Leipzig , which had managed to stay in the 2nd Bundesliga. From 1994 to 1996 he was used again in two seasons a total of 25 times in point games, then Wittke ended his career as a competitive athlete in June 1996 after suffering a fibula fracture a month earlier.

Selection bets

In 1980 Wittke played in three international matches in the junior selection of communications . In 1987 he took part in three qualifying matches for the GDR Olympic team for the 1988 Olympic football tournament . Overall, the Magdeburg ran seven times for these eleven this year.

Professional and trainer activity

At the beginning of his footballing career, Wittke was trained as a mechanical engineer and later he studied sports. After the end of his sporting career, however, he took up a job in the banking industry. In 2006 he played with the Volksbank Saaletal football team. From July 2008 Wittke took over the training of the Association football Landesklasse the Thuringian gambling 1. Suhler SV . In this role he was replaced early in the 2009/10 season.

Trivia

His sons Kevin (* 1984) and Ricky (* 1988) were also active in the transition area between amateur and paid football. His brother Jens also played in the upper league before the reunification in the GDR and in the 2nd Bundesliga after reunification .

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personal data
SURNAME Wittke, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Oebisfelde , German Democratic Republic