Joachim Seiler

Joachim Seiler (born October 2, 1938 ) is a German former soccer player and soccer coach. As a player he was active in the 1950s and 1960s for SC Motor Karl-Marx-Stadt and BSG Motor Zwickau in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football . In 1968 he worked as a trainer at Sachsenring Zwickau (successor to BSG Motor) in the major league. Seiler is also a multiple GDR junior national player.

Athletic career

player

After Joachim Seiler had played three international matches with the GDR junior national team in 1956, he was used in seven games in the GDR league by SC Motor Karl-Marx-Stadt in the 1957 football season (calendar year season). These games took place in the second half of the season, and Seiler was used as a striker. He scored his only top league goal in the match on the 20th match day Motor Zwickau - SC Motor (4: 1). At the end of the season, the Karl-Marx-Städter were relegated to the GDR league , where Seiler became the team's regular in the 1958 season. He only missed one of the 26 league games and was again successful with a point goal. That also earned him the appearance in two youth international games. After the SC Motor had to be relegated from the GDR league after a year, Seiler joined the upper division Motor Zwickau.

Also in Zwickau he became a regular player in the 1959 season with 23 missions and one goal in 26 point games, where he played again in defense. In 1960 he was called up as a defender in all 26 league games, but this time remained goalless. In July 1960, Seiler also played his third junior international game. When the game year in GDR football was changed back to the summer-spring rhythm in 1961, 39 game days had to be played in the major league from winter 1961 to spring 1962. Defender Seiler was only used in eight league games in the first third of the season, after which he disappeared from higher-class football, although Motor Zwickau reported him for the 1963/64 season for his league squad.

Trainer

In February 1968 Joachim Seiler returned to the GDR league as a coach. After the cup winner of last season Motor Zwickau had landed on the last place in the table after the first half of the season 1967/68 and had already failed in the first round of the European Cup Winners' Cup , Seiler took over the training of the top division team of the BSG, which had just before renamed Sachsenring Zwickau. Although Seiler had managed to bring the BSG Sachsenring to seventh place by the end of the season, he was replaced by Horst Scherbaum at the beginning of the 1968/69 season . It took ten years before Seiler appeared again as a coach in GDR-wide football. From the 1978/79 season he trained the BSG Motor Fritz Heckert Karl-Marx-Stadt in the GDR league. He was able to keep the climber from 1978 in the GDR league until 1983, after which he was replaced by Friedrich-Wilhelm Göcke and then finally no longer appeared in top football.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1956–1983. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 412.
• Andreas Baingo , Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 350.

Web links

• Joachim Seiler in the database of the German Football Association