Manfred Michael

Manfred Michael (born July 18, 1926 ) is a former German soccer player. In the GDR Oberliga , he played 178 first division games for SG Volkspolizei / Dynamo Dresden and SC Dynamo Berlin . With Dresden he was GDR champion and cup winner.

Athletic career

In 1949/50 Michael played for the SG Volkspolizei Potsdam in the second-class Brandenburg State League . He then belonged to the group of group members from all VP sports associations in the GDR, which had come together in Forst , from which the best talents for the Dresden People's Police were to be selected. From the 1950/51 season onwards, SG VP Dresden was to be incorporated into the upper league of the German Sports Committee as the top team of the German People's Police Sports Association . The 24-year-old Michael was among the chosen ones and was used in the first games of the major league.

As a defender, Michael had a regular place from the start. By the end of the 1953/54 season he played 116 of the 130 point games played in four seasons. He was also in the playoff for the GDR championship in 1953 , which the Dresden team won 3-2 against the BSG Wismut Aue . Shortly before, the sports community had been renamed SG Dynamo Dresden. Michael was also in the 1952 final of the GDR soccer cup, in which Dresden defeated BSG unit Pankow 3-0.

After Michael had also played the first eight point games of the 1954/55 season for SG Dynamo Dresden, the team was relocated to East Berlin at the behest of the GDR sports management, to promote the sporting importance of the "capital of the GDR" as SC Dynamo Berlin upgrade a second league team (alongside ZSK Vorwärts Berlin ). Michael also played the other point games for Berlin until the winter break, but then had to pause several times for the first time in his senior league career due to injuries, so that he could only play five matches of the 13 league games in the second half of the season. In the summer and autumn of 1955, a so-called transition round was carried out in GDR football in order to align the seasons with the calendar year. Michael only came back to the league team on the seventh matchday of the round, and then played the remaining six point games. The 1956 season began Michael again as a regular player, but injured himself again in the summer and was only able to play 17 of the 26 point games. The SC Dynamo ended the season as relegated, so Michael had to continue his career in 1957 as a second division player in the GDR league . Also in this season he was out for several weeks and missed six of the 26 point games. The SC Dynamo managed to return to the league immediately, but the 1958 season was the last season in the league for Michael, he came again to 18 missions.

After 124 first division games for SG Volkspolizei / Dynamo Dresden (7 goals) and 54 first division games for Dynamo Berlin, Michael moved to SG Dynamo Hohenschönhausen in 1959 in the third-class II. DDR-Liga , which he helped to advance to the DDR-Liga in the same year . There he completed 13 point games for Hohenschönhausen, only to end his career in higher-class football.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1950–1960. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 319.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pp. 294, 306.
• DFSF (ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949–1991 (Volume 8). Berlin 2010, p. 266.

Web links

• Manfred Michael in the database of weltfussball.de