Markus Wuckel

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Markus Wuckel
Personnel
Surname Markus Wuckel
birthday April 5th 1967
place of birth GDR
size 182 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
BSG steel Blankenburg
0000-1984 1. FC Magdeburg
1984-1985 BSG Stahl Brandenburg
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1985 BSG Stahl Brandenburg 9 0(1)
1985-1991 1. FC Magdeburg 116 (47)
1991-1992 1. SC Göttingen 05 29 (16)
1992-1993 VfB Oldenburg 35 0(6)
1993-1995 Arminia Bielefeld 50 (25)
1995-1996 Red and white food 24 0(7)
1996-1997 VfB Leipzig 8 0(1)
1997-1998 1. FC Saarbrücken 23 0(4)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1982-1983 DDR U-16 17 (7)
1984-1985 GDR U-18 7 (1)
1986-1989 DDR U-21 14 (9)
1987-1988 DDR Olympia 9 (4)
1987-1990 GDR 4 (2)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2004–0000 Arminia Bielefeld (women)
1 Only league games are given.

Markus Wuckel (born April 5, 1967 ) is a former German soccer player and today's soccer coach . He is a four-time national player in the GDR team .

Athletic career

In the DDR

Wuckel began his career in the offspring of BSG Stahl Blankenburg and appeared in the first season of the junior league 1983/84 in the squad of 1. FC Magdeburg . For the 1984/85 season Wuckel was given up to BSG Stahl Brandenburg , which competed in the top division of this age group in GDR football through the rise of the men's team in the major league with their junior team. However, the squad lacked high-quality young players, as they were trained at the children's and youth sports schools for the football clubs. In an interview with the trade journal fuwo after the season opener, coach Axel Leonhardt spoke of the fact that his team “only includes a few players with competitive sporting experience” . Therefore, the DFV junior selection player, who had probably been delegated to a company sports community by 1. FC Magdeburg for disciplinary reasons , was a welcome addition to the steel juniors.

Since the strong striker was convincing in the U-18 area, he made his debut on March 16, 1985, a few weeks before his 18th birthday, in the home win of the Stahl-Elf under coach Heinz Werner against FC Karl-Marx-Stadt in the men's league. The DFV organ fuwo judged at the start that his experienced opponent Frank Uhlig "hardly ever found the right attitude against the hard-working, sometimes unorthodox actions of the Brandenburg hotspur (...) ." Overall, Wuckel completed his first nine first division games in the 1984/85 season, in which he scored a goal. In the junior league he was the most successful steel attacker this season, which ended the team in twelfth, met eight times.

For the 1985/86 season Wuckel was brought back to the Elbe for FCM. This is where the long-standing top performers Jürgen Pommerenke , Siegmund Mewes and above all Joachim Streich stopped, with the latter immediately taking on the role of the responsible senior division coach. After his move, Wuckel was able to assert himself immediately in the team of the three-time GDR champions and scored his first goal for FCM on the sixth day of the match in a 4: 4 draw against Zwickau. Overall, he was in his first full league season in 25 of 26 games on the field and scored seven goals. With fourth place, the FCM also qualified for the UEFA Cup , but were eliminated in the first round against Athletic Bilbao . In the three following seasons up to the end of the 1988/89 season, Wuckel was in 70 of 78 games on the field and scored 29 goals. Nevertheless, the Magdeburg team stagnated in the championship and only occupied midfield positions without being able to qualify for European competitions.

Only in the 1989/90 season , which was strongly influenced by political upheavals, things started to improve again with the Elbe towns. Unlike many top division competitors, they were able to prevent a personal bloodletting and now had a strike partner for Wuckel in their ranks with Uwe Rösler , who was committed in the second half of the 1988/89 season . The duo scored eleven goals each, placing them in third place on the list of goalscorers. However, Wuckel might have scored a few more goals if he hadn't been canceled for the rest of the season due to a serious traffic accident that he caused on March 26, 1990 would. The man from Magdeburg, who was traveling in his Lada with his teammate Jens Gerlach , had taken the right of way in a truck with 1.8 per thousand alcohol in his blood and suffered severe pelvic and knee injuries. Only on March 2, 1991, the trained maintenance mechanic returned to the lawn for a league game and completed four more games for FCM in the last league season , in which he was only substituted three times. Overall, Wuckel came between 1985 and 1991 for the FCM on 116 league appearances (47 goals), twelve cup games (nine hits) and two European Cup games without scoring. Since the FCM did not qualify for the 2nd Bundesliga, not least due to Wuckels missing goals and the departure of his strike partner Rösler during the winter break in 1990, the Magdeburg chapter ended in summer 1991 for the then 24-year-old.

In reunified Germany

In the summer of 1991, Wuckel moved to the then North Upper Division 1. SC Göttingen 05 . In the third division he was called up in 29 of 32 games and scored 16 goals. Having become aware of this performance, the then second division club VfB Oldenburg , where his former teammate, the Magdeburg legend Wolfgang Steinbach , was now playing, signed the 26-year-old and used him in 35 of 46 games in that mammoth season . Despite his six goals, he could not prevent the relegation of Lower Saxony.

Wuckel then moved to the ambitious upper division Arminia Bielefeld . In two seasons he played 50 out of 64 possible games and scored 25 goals. In the 93/94 season he helped with 12 goals to qualify for the newly introduced Regionalliga West / Southwest . In the following season 94/95 the men from the Alm managed to get promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga, which Wuckel contributed with 13 goals.

Obviously Wuckel did not get a new contract, because for the 1995/96 season he ran for the regional league club Rot-Weiss Essen . There he scored seven goals in 24 games, but was eliminated five game days before the end of the season due to an injury. The Esseners also rose to the 2nd Bundesliga, but Wuckel did not receive a new contract with the Red-White.

The reason for Wuckel's failure was a tumor in the hollow of his knee that first had to be surgically removed. His former teammate from Magdeburg times, Damian Halata , meanwhile co-trainer of the then second division club VfB Leipzig , guided the clubless 29-year-old after his recovery to the second half of the 1996/97 season . However, it was only enough for the Saxons for eight games in which he scored a goal. For the last eight game days before the end of the season, the former GDR national player had to watch from the stands. In his last season as a player, the then regional division 1. FC Saarbrücken secured the services of Wuckel. He made another 23 appearances for Saarland, but was only in the starting line-up in eleven games and scored four goals. After that, the 31-year-old had to end his career as a sports invalid due to an injury. 43 second division appearances (7 goals), 74 appearances in the regional league (24 goals) and 29 games (16 goals) in the Oberliga Nord 1991/92 for the Göttingen 05 complete his league experience.

National team

Wuckel's talent caught the eye of those responsible for selection early on. On September 28, 1982, the striker playing for FCM in the U-16 selection under coach Walter Fritzsch against the U-16s of the ČSSR came as a substitute for the first time to a selection mission. 16 more missions, in which the striker scored seven goals, were to follow until late autumn 1983. However, the team missed the qualification for the U-16 European Championship in 1984 in Germany.

But Wuckel remained in the field of vision of the DFV trainers. Despite his move to the junior team of BSG Stahl Brandenburg , Wuckel was now appointed to the U-18 team that fought for qualification for the U-18 European Championship in 1986 in Yugoslavia . First under coach Fritzsch, then under Eberhard Vogel , Wuckel completed seven U-18 missions as a BSG player in the 1984/85 season and scored one goal. However, he was born before August 1, 1967 and was one of the older generation of the qualifying team. When the DFV's U-19 youth team was preparing to become European champion in autumn 1986, Wuckel was no longer eligible to play .

For this, Wuckel was called up for the first time on March 26, 1986 in a game of the U-21 national team against the U-21 of Greece. The game was over for the Magdeburg after a red card in the 18th minute. The Magdeburg resident completed a total of 14 missions for the DFV youth representative, in which he scored nine goals. His last use took place on March 7, 1989 against Greece.

Due to his consistently good performance in the club (Wuckel was part of the eleven of the first half of the season in a fuwo evaluation) and in the U-21s, Wuckel was assigned to an A-selection training camp for the first time in February 1987 due to the absence of Rico Steinmann by national coach Bernd Stange Taken Crete. Wuckel made his debut in the A selection on April 29, 1987 in Kiev in the European Championship qualifier against the Soviet Union, in which he came on in the 70th minute for Jörg Stübner . This should remain his only national team appearance under selection coach Stange.

Previously, Wuckel had already made his debut in the Olympic selection on March 11 of the same year , in which selection coach Harro Miller used him against Poland from the 60th minute for Hans Richter . There followed in this and the following year, 1988, eight more missions, in which Wuckel scored four goals. After appearances in the U-21s and the Olympic representation, the Magdeburg man who had obviously fallen out of favor at Stange, not least because of his alcohol-related escapades , was given another chance in the A selection under the new selection coach Manfred Zapf , team captain of the successful Magdeburg European Cup winning team from 1974. Ironically in front of a home crowd and at the pre-deciding World Cup qualifier against Turkey in April 1989, the 22-year-old should turn things around as a substitute when the score was 0: 1. The trade journal fuwo commented on Wuckel's replacement as follows: "When we brought in the fourth (!) Striker with him, the questions about the trainer's conceptual ideas turned into an avalanche."

As a result, Wuckel was no longer employed in Zapf's short term in office. It was not until the summer of 1989 that the selection coach Eduard Geyer was appointed to nominate Wuckel for a trip to Kuwait at the beginning of 1990. There, the GDR selection played against the representations of France and Kuwait. Substitute for Dariusz Wosz against France , Wuckel played through against Kuwait and scored two goals. It can be assumed that, thanks to his performance in the upper league, Wuckel would have made further selections in the GDR national team if his serious car accident had not put him out of action until after reunification. For the Magdeburg attacker, four appearances in the A-selection went into the annals of East German football.

Coaching career

After training in marketing and management, Wuckel successfully completed the DFB football coaching course . He then was manager, player-coach and president of his home club Blankenburger FV between 1998 and 2000 . The club had given a one-year guest appearance in the Association League Saxony-Anhalt in the 1996/97 season, but was relegated again immediately. This was followed in the season by a pass through to the state class, before the return to the state league Saxony-Anhalt succeeded under coach Wuckel in the 1999/2000 season. He then coached the ambitious league club 1. FC Wernigerode . However, the club from the Harz had to file for bankruptcy in the 2001/2002 season, and Wuckel lost his coaching post there.

Today Markus Wuckel trains talents in his soccer school "Doppelpass" in Boltenhagen . In addition, Wuckel has been the coach of Arminia Bielefeld's first women's football team since 2004 and led them to promotion to the Regionalliga West in 2015 and to the 2nd Bundesliga a year later .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ fuwo - The new football week . Aug 21, 1984, p.12.
  2. ↑ Rainer Nachtigall : When two do the same thing ... In: fuwo - The new football week . Mar 19, 1985, p. 6.
  3. ↑ New Germany . March 29, 1990, p. 6.
  4. ↑ Günter Simon : Not a trace of looseness. In: fuwo - The new football week . April 18, 1989, page 9.
personal data
SURNAME Wuckel, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and soccer coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 5th 1967