Horst Sockoll

Horst Sockoll (born April 24, 1925 in Zeitz ; † March 1, 2003 in Halle / Saale ) was a soccer player and soccer coach. In the 1950s and 1960s he was the coach of the GDR league team of SC Chemie Halle and its successor Hallescher FC Chemie . He won the GDR Cup in 1956 with SC Chemie .

Horst Sockoll started playing soccer at his home club, Zeitzer BC, when he was eight. In 1934 he moved to Zeitzer SV, where he was used in the first team as a center runner at the age of 17 . His football career was interrupted when he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1942. After the end of the war in 1945 he returned to Zeitz with a serious buttock injury. Sockoll played in the SG Zeitz until the 1948/49 season, but had to give up active football during the season due to a ligament injury. He then became football section and team leader at the ZSG Hydrogenation Works Zeitz, founded in 1949 .

In 1953, Horst Sockoll began a one-year coaching course at the Leipzig Sports University DHfK . He then became assistant trainer at SC Turbine Erfurt for a year in 1954 . At the beginning of the football season in 1955 he took over the training of the football team of the SC Chemie Halle-Leuna , which had been relegated in the preseason from the GDR Oberliga , the highest East German football class.

In the transition round 1955, in which 13 rounds were played to bridge the gap to the game year 1956 with the new calendar year rhythm, Horst Sockoll reached fourth place with the Hallens, in the season 1956 he led the SC Chemie back into the league as second in the table. He crowned the successful season by winning the GDR soccer cup. The second division defeated the upper division Vorwärts Berlin on December 16, 1956 2-1.

In the league season of 1957, Horst Sockoll was able to save the Halle club with 12th place from relegation, but a year later he got down with the newly structured SC Chemie Halle and then separated from the club.

Horst Sockoll was transferred to the GDR league promoted BSG Chemie Wolfen , where he worked as a trainer until 1960. For the 1961/62 season, after returning to the summer-spring rhythm, SC Chemie Halle brought Sockoll back as head coach. After the Halleers only landed on the penultimate place in the league after the first half of the season, the club separated from Horst Sockoll after six months. In December 1961, Horst Sockoll was employed by the GDR football association DFV as the coordinator of the district coaches and youth football . In July 1966, Sockoll became a trainer for the third time in Halle , now at the successor club of SC Chemie, the Halleschen FC Chemie (HFC) , which had been founded seven months earlier . Even as SC Chemie, the team was promoted to the league and had just managed to stay in the league as HFC with eleventh place in the table. Even under Horst Sockoll, there was no significant improvement, until 1970 the people of Halle only fought against relegation.

In 1970 the HFC and its coach separated again, Horst Sockoll was taken over by the Halle Football District Committee, where he worked until 1972. The DFV then sent Horst Sockoll abroad as a development worker. Among other things, he successfully worked as a selection trainer and trainer instructor in Somalia , later in Yemen , Syria , Mexico and Lesotho . During this time he took part in numerous national and international tournaments with the respective teams.

In 1983 he returned to the GDR and worked as a consultant and junior trainer at HFC until he retired. In 2000 he was made an honorary member of the club by the president of the Hallesches Fußballclub eV. Until his death in 2003, he was the author of specialist articles and repeatedly took on voluntary tasks in the sporting field, including for the soccer association of the state of Saxony-Anhalt.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . The workshop , Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 .
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 .
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .
• GDR sports newspaper Deutsches Sportecho , issue of November 5, 1966 with curriculum vitae

Web links

• Obituary in the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung