Marcel Witeczek

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Marcel Witeczek
Personnel
birthday October 18, 1968
place of birth Tychy ,  Poland
size 178 cm
position Defense / midfield / storm
Juniors
Years station
0000-1984 Post-SV Oberhausen
1984-1985 Rot-Weiß Oberhausen
1985-1986 Bayer 05 Uerdingen
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1986-1991 Bayer 05 Uerdingen 142 (22)
1991-1993 1. FC Kaiserslautern 68 (15)
1993-1997 FC Bayern Munich 97 0(9)
1997-2003 Borussia Monchengladbach 167 (13)
2003-2005 SG Wattenscheid 09 62 0(6)
2005-2007 FC 07 Albstadt
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1983-1984 Germany U-15 7 0(6)
1984-1985 Germany U-16 9 0(7)
1985-1986 Germany U-17 8 (11)
1986-1987 Germany U-18 1 0(0)
1987-1988 Germany U-20 8 0(7)
1988-1990 Germany U-21 9 0(4)
1 Only league games are given.

Marcel Witeczek (born October 18, 1968 in Tychy , Poland ) is a former German soccer player who was born in Poland.

Career

societies

Marcel Witeczek was born in Tychy and played football on the street in his hometown . At the age of 13, his friends persuaded him to join the local football club, but a short time later he did not return with his parents from a vacation in Germany. Witeczek, whose parents received the resettler status, then began playing football in the C-youth of the Post Sport Club Oberhausen . After one and a half years at Rot-Weiß Oberhausen , he moved to the youth department of Bayer 05 Uerdingen in 1985 at the age of 16 , which provided him with a training contract as a retail salesman. His family moved to a company-owned apartment of Bayer AG to; his father got a new job. From 1986 to 1991 he was a member of the Uerdinger first team, for which he played 142 games and scored 22 goals. He made his debut on August 8, 1986 (1st matchday) - in the 81st minute for Werner Buttgereit - in a 2-0 win in the away game against FC 08 Homburg ; his first goal on November 8th (matchday 13) also meant the final score in a 3-1 home win over VfL Bochum . In his first season he came to one game in the DFB Cup and three games in the UEFA Cup . After a world tournament with the German U-20 national team in 1987, in which he was the top scorer, he had an offer from AS Monaco that he did not accept.

In 1991 Witeczek moved to 1. FC Kaiserslautern , for whom he played two national and ten international cup games. In 1993 he went to FC Bayern Munich , with whom he became German champions in 1994 and 1997. 1997 Witeczek moved to Borussia Mönchengladbach ; with the club he rose in 1999 to the 2nd Bundesliga and 2001 again. After two more seasons he changed club and division: For SG Wattenscheid 09 he was initially in the Regionalliga Nord and one season in the Oberliga Westfalen (4th division). He let his football career come to an end after the 2006/07 season in Baden-Württemberg with the state division club FC 07 Albstadt .

Witeczek played a total of 410 Bundesliga (50 goals), 64 second division (9 goals) and 29 regional league games (3 goals) as well as 23 national (1 goal) and 32 international cup games (9 goals).

National team

Witeczek played in his youth in the national school team as a striker . With the U-17 team he was second in the World Cup in 1985 and with the U-20 team in 1987 , and he was the top scorer in both tournaments ( 1985 : 6 games, 8 goals / 1987 : 6 games, 7 goals).

He was appointed nine times for the U-21 national team. He made his debut on April 26, 1988 in Kreuzlingen in an 8-0 win over the Swiss team, to which he contributed two goals - 1-0 and 4-0. He played his last game for this national team in the quarter-final first leg of the U-21 European Championship on March 14, 1990 in Simferopol in a 1-1 draw against the Soviet Union .

successes

Others

Witeczek has been playing in the company sports association AOK Rheinland / Hamburg since 2006 , the aim of which is to establish and maintain contact with partner companies through sport. Witeczek has played 45 games for the company sports association and scored 38 goals and was AOK national cup winner in 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010. He also won the AOK Hospital Cup in 2006 and 2008.

Witeczek has also been active as a triathlete for several years . After his football career, he ran his first marathon.

Together with his former Gladbach teammate Michael Klinkert , he is currently organizing tournaments, training units and courses for children and young people on behalf of the AOK education center.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Marcel Witeczek. In: Munzinger. Munzinger Archive Online, accessed June 3, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b c Great future . In: Spiegel-Verlag Rudolf Augstein GmbH & Co. KG (ed.): Der Spiegel . 25th edition. No. 25 . Spiegel-Verlag Rudolf Augstein GmbH & Co. KG, June 19, 1989, p. 147 and 150 ( spiegel.de [accessed on June 3, 2015] Article also available as a PDF file).
  3. ↑ Jochen Tittmar: Witeczek: "There were dead dogs lying around". In: spox.com. June 30, 2011, accessed July 5, 2014 .
  4. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Marcel Witeczek - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation, October 31, 2013, accessed November 1, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: AOK player portrait@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.team-aok.de
  6. ↑ For me, running was hell ( memento from June 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ The crazy Piplica and his crazy mistake.
personal data
SURNAME Witeczek, Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Tychy