Hermann Stocker

Stöcker as a national player in 1964

Hermann Stöcker (born January 6, 1938 in Borne ) is a former German football player (GDR).

Life

Stöcker grew up in the village of Borne, 17 kilometers south of Magdeburg . He started playing football at the local company sports association (BSG) Traktor, moved to BSG Traktor Heyrothsberge in 1953 and joined BSG Motor Mitte Magdeburg in 1956 at the age of 18, a forerunner of 1. FC Magdeburg . Stöcker played his first competitive game for Magdeburg on January 8, 1956 in the 1956 Totorunde at Motor Nordhausen West and won with his team 2-1. From 1960 he played in the highest GDR soccer class, the Oberliga , meanwhile his team called itself SC Aufbau Magdeburg, from 1966 1. FC Magdeburg. With her, Stöcker won the GDR Cup ( FDGB Cup ) in 1964, 1965 and 1969 . In total, he played 331 competitive games in Magdeburg, mostly as a winger, 185 of them in the league and eight in the European Cup. He scored 41 goals in the league, plus two in the European Cup. Thanks to his fair play, he was never sent off.

On September 4, 1963, Stöcker played his first international A match as a left winger in Magdeburg in a 1-1 draw against Bulgaria . He scored his four international goals during the Asian tour of the GDR national team at the turn of 1963/64 in a 5: 1 against Burma (1) and in a 12: 1 against Ceylon (3). In the World Cup qualifier against Austria on April 25, 1965 (1: 1), Stöcker was used for the sixth and last time in the national team. In the 13 games of the GDR Olympic selection for Tokyo in 1964, he was used eleven times during qualification and in the Olympic tournament. From the finals in Tokyo, he played three games and was in the team that won the bronze medal. He scored four goals for the Olympic selection, u. a. one goal in the game for bronze and a total of two goals in the qualifying games against Germany.

With the 4-0 victory against FC Karl-Marx-Stadt in the cup final on May 31, 1969, Stöcker ended his active career in the league team, as an injury no longer allowed high-performance sport. After he had paved the way for the second team of the FCM with two goals in the decisive final promotion game in the GDR league, he was officially adopted before a friendly against Barada SK Damascus on July 26, 1969. At 1. FC Magdeburg he then worked as a junior coach, and between 1976 and 1982 as an assistant coach for the league team. Stöcker has lived in Vechta, Lower Saxony, since 1990 .

successes

Bronze medal Olympia 1964
FDBG Cup winner 1964, 1965, 1969

Web links

• Hermann Stöcker in the database of the German Football Association
• Profile on sports-reference.com