Manfred Fuchs (soccer player, 1924)

Manfred Fuchs (born April 5, 1924 in Zwickau ; † August 23, 2000 ) was a soccer player in the GDR major league at Horch / Motor Zwickau and BSG Wismut Aue . He later worked as a coach in various first and second division teams in the GDR.

Career

Soccer player

The first stop in Manfred Fuchs' football career was the ATV in the Zwickau district of Marienthal , where he was accepted into the school team at the age of ten. At the age of 16 he was already part of the first team, and at 17 he was already playing with Planitzer SC in the Gauliga Sachsen , at that time one of the 16 highest football leagues. After the Second World War, Fuchs first played football at the newly formed SG Cainsdorf near Zwickau . In the autumn of 1947 he ran as a so-called zone jumper once or twice for Hannover 96 . In 1948 he was one of the co-founders of the central company sports club Horch Zwickau. When the ZSG Horch Zwickau became the first GDR football champion in the 1949/50 season , Fuchs had played in 22 of the 26 point games and thus contributed significantly to the success of the Zwickau. Apart from a short detour to Turbine Erfurt , where he played two league games in 1952, Fuchs played as a regular defender from 1949 to 1953 for Zwickau 98 times in the GDR league, scoring three goals. At the beginning of the 1953/54 season, Fuchs moved to local rivals BSG Wismut Aue . However, since he had exceeded his performance horizon at almost 30 years of age, he was only used there in 10 league games in 1954. In addition to the championship games, Fuchs was also used in nine games of the Saxony selection.

coach

During his time as an active soccer player, Manfred Fuchs trained as a soccer coach in 1949. In 1950 he was assistant coach at the Saxon state sports school under Richard Hofmann . From 1953 to 1962 he was employed as a trainer at the central sports association Wismut and was employed as a trainer assistant at Wismut Gera and at SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt . From July 1960 to March 1962 he was the senior league coach in charge of the Erzgebirge. Subsequently, he was responsible for the coaching instructions in the southern relay of the second-rate GDR league at the GDR Football Association and briefly oversaw the GDR junior selection. On June 1, 1966, he took over the post of head coach at Dynamo Dresden . In his first season, Fuchs led the Dresdner to fourth place in the league, the best position so far since promotion in 1964. But a year later came disillusionment when Dynamo was in acute danger of relegation in the spring of 1968. To escape the debacle, Fuchs was replaced on March 16, 1968 by the new coach Kurt Kresse . Dynamo Dresden was relegated anyway and Fuchs went back to his home town of Zwickau, where he brought the top division team from Sachsenring Zwickau (successor to his previous team) as the best company sports community in 5th place in the 1968/69 season . In the summer of 1969, Fuchs received an offer from the league promoted steel Eisenhüttenstadt . Together with the former GDR association trainer Hans Studener , he accepted the offer, but could not prevent the steel team from relegating from the league again after a year. Despite the relegation, Fuchs stayed in Eisenhüttenstadt with the task of leading the team back into the league. Shortly after the start of the 1970/71 season, Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt was accused of financial manipulation of violating the statutes. The team was downgraded to the third-class district league and bans imposed on players and officials. Manfred Fuchs was given a two-year ban and never appeared again in a higher-class team.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1950–1971. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 148.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 290.

Web links

• Manfred Fuchs in the database of the German Football Association
• Players A – Z (bung bottle) , visited on May 19, 2020

Note

There was a football player and coach of the same name (* 1938) who also played for Wismut Aue, but from 1966 to 1974. In the standard work Encyclopedia of GDR football by Hanns Leske, the coaching activities of Manfred Fuchs (football player, 1938) performed by Manfred Fuchs (* 1924).