Manfred Müller (soccer player, 1939)

Manfred Müller (born September 11, 1939 in Neustadt) is a former soccer player and soccer coach in the GDR . For ASK / FC Vorwärts Berlin he played in the Oberliga , the highest GDR soccer class. He was three times champion and one cup winner. As a coach, he only worked for second division teams.

Soccer career

player

At the age of 18, Müller, who was a farm machinist by profession, moved from the tractor company sports community (BSG) in Malchin to the Vorwärts Neubrandenburg army sports community . In 1960 he rose with the army team in the second-rate first GDR league , in which he played until the end of 1961 and was finally team captain. On June 29, 1960, he played an international match with the GDR youth national team. In the 5-3 win over Norway he was used as a right defender. In early 1962, Müller was delegated to the top club of the army sports association , the upper division ASK Vorwärts Berlin, but initially only played in the reserve team. It was only on the last day of the first half of the 1962/63 season that Müller played his first league game. In the encounter between ASK Vorwärts and SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt , he was used as a midfielder. Even after that, he had to be content with the role of a substitute player, in the seasons 1962/63 and 1963/64 he was only used in six league games in the league team. In 1964/65 he won his first title when ASK won the GDR soccer championship for the fourth time. However, Müller had only played in eleven of the 26 point games. The following year the ASK defended its title, in which Müller was involved with 14 point games. For the first time in the 1967/68 season, Müller was part of the regular squad of the forward team, which had been a football club since 1966, with 22 point matches. From the 5th matchday on he played all league games and replaced Werner Unger on the right side of defense . In 1968/69 and 1969/70 Müller played all 26 point games, was champion for the third time in 1969 and cup winner in 1970. In the 4-2 final victory over 1. FC Lok Leipzig on June 13, 1970, he was the central defender in the forward team. Müller played his last season as a regular player in 1970/71 when he again completed 22 point games in defense. In the 1971/72 season he was only used seven times in the league, on January 2, 1972, he played as a left defender in the match on the 13th match day Wismut Aue - FC Vorwärts (0-0) his last league game. It was his 153rd league game in ten seasons. He also played 13 European Cup games , in which, in contrast to the Oberliga , he also scored two goals as a goal scorer.

Trainer

After the end of his football career, Müller returned to his previous community, the ASG Vorwärts Neubrandenburg, and took over the training of the second-rate GDR league team there. With her he was the season winner in 1978 and 1984. After the first relay victory, his team missed the leap into the league as fourth in the promotion round, after the relay victory in 1984 Vorwärts Neubrandenburg fell victim to the restructuring of the army sports association, was dissolved and no longer took part in the promotion round. Müller, who had been a member of the army since 1962 and was finally an officer, was discharged from military service. At the beginning of the 1984/85 season he moved to the previous local and league rivals BSG Post Neubrandenburg , where he coached the GDR league team until 1987. After he took over the team as third in the table, the Mecklenburgers slipped further and further into the table cellar in the following years. When the team had finished the 1986/87 season in 15th place, one rank ahead of the relegation places, Müller was dismissed.

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 .
• Deutsches Sportecho , issue of December 14, 1978, short biography