Klaus Matischak

Klaus Matischak (born October 24, 1938 in Bottrop ) is a former German soccer player who won the German soccer championship with Werder Bremen in 1965 .

Life

Klaus Matischak started playing football at a young age in Westmünsterland near Gronau 09 and was discovered early by VfB Bottrop for the 2nd League West . Under coach Willi Multhaup , the striker's hope came in the 1955/56 season to 23 appearances in the second division; he scored five goals for third in the table. In his last year in Bottrop, 1957/58 , he increased his quota under Multhaup's successor Franz Linken to 28 league games with 22 goals. Overall, Matischak is led in the 2nd League West with 67 games and 31 goals. On June 25, 1958, the center forward scored a goal in the final of the regional cup for the 2-0 success of the Lower Rhine association in Hanover against the selection of Lower Saxony.

During his time at VfB Bottrop in the 2nd League West, the 19-year-old center forward made his debut in the DFB national team . On October 12, 1957, he made his debut in the amateur national team in a 3-2 win against England (he scored a goal) alongside Peter Grosser , Karl-Heinz Schnellinger and Herbert Schäfer . In 1958 he played two more games there; in the three missions he scored four goals. He also received an appointment for the game in the junior national team on December 21, 1957 in Braunschweig against Hungary.

The master of the Oberliga Süd in 1958, Karlsruher SC , then signed the storm talent for the 1958/59 round. In Baden, however, the man from the Lower Rhine could not succeed the striker Heinz Beck . At KSC he came in the championship round in 1960 only to five missions (three hits), in the finals he was only a spectator. Matischak moved to FK Pirmasens in 1960/61 in the Oberliga Südwest and found back on the road to success as a scorer. In the two rounds in the Palatinate from 1960 to 1962, he scored 42 goals in 44 games. This made it interesting again for the West. SC Viktoria Köln , the city rival of 1. FC Köln in the Oberliga West , signed Matischak for the last round of the Oberliga era in 1962/63. He came into the hands of the later master coach Hennes Weisweiler and was able to emphatically confirm his gift of scoring goals with 17 goals. Since Viktoria missed their admission to the new Bundesliga , FC Schalke 04 signed Matischak for the 1963/64 season. Even in this more demanding season of the best, he managed to be one of the most successful goal scorers with 18 goals. Since the second half of the season under coach Georg Gawliczek and Hans Nowak , Willi Schulz and Reinhard Libuda got completely out of hand and Schalke's financial possibilities were not to the taste of the enterprising center-forward, he moved to Bremen in the summer of 1964.

At SV Werder, coach Willi Multhaup had drawn the right conclusions from the first Bundesliga season. He strengthened the defense with Horst-Dieter Höttges and Heinz Steinmann and built on the goalscoring qualities of the man from Bottrop. Multhaup, the “gentleman in a fine cloth”, was right with his personnel decision. The defense was secure and in the storm, "Zig-Zag-Matischak" proved his goal danger. The striker, who is strong in play and shooting, has already had significant injury breaks. In the first half of the 1964/65 he was able to support the Werder team in just seven games in their march to the top of the table. But his two goals on October 10, 1964 in the 2-1 away win against promoted Hannover 96 were very important . In the second half of the season he was again represented in the goalscorer list with two goals each in the successes against Hamburger SV and again Hanover. In the three final games of the 1964/65 round against Meidericher SV , Borussia Dortmund and 1. FC Nürnberg , he scored once each. He came up with a total of 12 goals in 19 games. SV Werder Bremen became German soccer champions in 1965.

Klaus Matischak's last Bundesliga game was on March 11, 1967 at Bayern Munich . Constant knee problems forced the successful striker, who together with Max Lorenz was the mood gun of the team, to end his football career.

As a “finance manager” he was at Werder in addition to league chairman Rudi Assauer in the 1976/77 round in another role.

Today (2014) Matischak lives in New York City .

Web links

• Klaus Matischak in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Klaus Matischak in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans Werner Bartsch: 100 years of football in Gronau
2. ↑ derwesten.de: As "Zig-Zack-Matischak" the Bundesliga thrilled on July 28, 2014, accessed on July 29, 2014.