Johannes Matzen

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Johannes Matzen (born February 13, 1925 ) is a former soccer player who was active from the 1940s to 1958. He is a two-time national soccer player of the GDR.

Johannes Matzen's first team was the works sports club Reichsbahn-TSV 1888 in the northwest Brandenburg town of Wittenberge . After the Second World War, Matzen played for the Wittenberge-Süd sports club until 1949 . Then he went to the Sports Community People's Police Potsdam , where he met his future national team colleagues Herbert Schoen and Günter Schröter . Together with them, he and 40 other players from Volkspolizei communities were invited to a viewing course for the future central sports community of the Dynamo sports association in Dresden. All three were included in the squad for the new team, which took the place of the disbanded Dresden-Friedrichstadt sports community at the beginning of the 1950/51 championship season in the top league of the GDR football league .

The SG Volkspolizei Dresden quickly developed into a top eleven, which in the first year of its existence already conquered 4th place and a year later became GDR runner-up. On September 14, 1952, the first title win could be celebrated. In the 3-0 victory in the final of the GDR Cup over Einheit Pankow , left wing Matzen put Dresden in the lead in the 5th minute. A week later, Matzen was in the GDR national team, which played its first official international match on September 21, 1952. The match was lost 3-0 in Warsaw. The 1952/53 season ended after a 3-2 win in the playoff against Wismut Aue by winning the GDR championship. Herbert Matzen had been used in all championship games and had scored ten of his team's 54 goals. Also in the following season the Dresden People's Police, now appearing under the name Dynamo, belonged to the top league and in 1954 took third place. At the beginning of the 1954/55 season he was called up to the national team again and played his second but also last international match against Poland on September 26, 1954. This encounter, this time in Rostock, was lost 1-0.

In the autumn of the same year, the central sports association Dynamo founded the SC Dynamo Berlin as part of the formation of a sports club in the GDR . As with most other sports clubs, a strong football team should also be affiliated in Berlin. Since this was not available in Berlin, SV Dynamo decided to relocate the team from Dynamo Dresden to Berlin. This happened in the middle of the current championship round, within a week the Dresdner Dynamos moved and entered the 12th matchday on November 21, 1954 as SC Dynamo Berlin. By this time, Johannes Matzen had played 139 league games for Dresden. The time in Berlin brought him no further success. The resettled team only reached 7th place at the end of the 1955 season and a year later, being penultimate, had to be relegated to the second division. After the immediate promotion, Matzen played one more season in the league, then he said goodbye to competitive football at the age of 33. For SC Dynamo Berlin, whose football team later became the BFC Dynamo , he had played another 70 league games, so that in his career he had a total of 209 championship games in the top division of the GDR. He scored 50 goals for Dresden and 26 goals for Berlin.

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SURNAME Matzen, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German football player and national player for the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1925