Joachim Schykowski

Joachim Schykowski (born September 19, 1950 in Zwickau ) was a soccer player in the GDR Oberliga , the highest soccer class of the East German soccer association. He played there for the company sports community (BSG) Sachsenring Zwickau , with which he won the GDR soccer cup in 1975 .

Soccer career

Schykowski's first sports community was the small BSG Motor Süd in his hometown of Zwickau, where he played together with his one year younger brother Hans Schykowski until he was a junior . In 1967 both brothers moved to the BSG Sachsenring Zwickau, where they first played in the junior league and then with the second team in the second-rate GDR league .

Schykowski played his first game in the GDR league on June 9, 1973, when he was used as a central midfielder for the unfit Andreas Reichelt in the league game between FC Carl Zeiss Jena - BSG Sachsenring (3-1). By the end of the season, the 1.78 m tall Schykowski was used in three other league games. At the beginning of the 1973/74 season, coach Karl-Heinz Kluge relied fully on the 23-year-old, and Schykowski played 25 of the 26 league point games in which he usually played in the central midfield. He kept this position in the first half of the season 1974/75, after the departure of Heinz Wohlrabe , who was drafted for military service, Schykowski took over his position as left defender.

The 1974/75 season ended with Schykowski's greatest success in his football career. After he had completed six of seven games for the GDR Cup, Sachsenring Zwickau was on June 14, 1975 in the cup final against Dynamo Dresden. After a 0-1 deficit, Schykowski, who was again playing on the left, scored the equalizer in the 73rd minute, after 120 minutes it was 2-2. The subsequent dramatic penalty shoot-out ended 4: 3 for Zwickau, who won the GDR Cup for the third time.

In 1975/76 Schykowski commuted between midfield and defense and came back to 25 league games. He also played all games for the European Cup Winners' Cup , which were another highlight in Schykowski's career. The Zwickauer eliminated the prominent teams Panathinaikos Athens, Fiorentina and Celtic Glasgow one after the other, before they failed in the semifinals to RSC Anderlecht (0: 3, 0: 2). With his three goals, Schykowski contributed significantly to this surprising advance, with his two goals in the second leg of the second leg against Fiorentina (1-0 and one on penalties) his most valuable goals.

Apart from brief excursions into midfield, Schykowski remained true to his left-back position until 1983. At the end of the 1982/83 season Sachsenring Zwickau rose from the league. It was not until 1985 that he returned to the league, and in the 1984/85 promotion season, Schykowski was one of the guarantors of success with 33 of 36 GDR league point games and four goals. At the age of 35 he then started his last league season. While he was used fairly regularly in the first half of the season with ten league games, he only played twice in the second half. He played his last league game on the 24th matchday, May 10, 1986. In the encounter between Stahl Brandenburg and Sachsenring (3-0), he was substituted on in the 65th place on his regular position on the left side of the defense.

In his twelve league series Schykowski came to a total of 240 league stakes, in which he scored 31 goals as a more defensive player. To train off, he then played with the lower-class teams from Einheit Elsterberg and Progress Planitz.

Professional career

After leaving school, Schykowski completed an apprenticeship as an electrician. After moving to BSG Sachsenring, he was employed by the carrier company , the Zwickau car manufacturer VEB Sachsenring . As usual with football players in the GDR Oberliga, this was only done pro forma. During his time as a football player, he completed an engineering degree and after the end of his senior league time worked as an engineer in the Sachsenringwerk until 1990. After the economic changes as a result of German reunification, Schykowski joined an advertising company in Zwickau . For a short time he was press spokesman for the BSG successor club FSV Zwickau, later he made a name for himself as an organizer of indoor soccer tournaments.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, 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 .