Matthias Müller (soccer player, 1954)
Matthias Müller (born October 18, 1954 in Dresden ) is a former German football player (GDR). When an attempted escape to the Federal Republic of Germany was discovered by a teammate in 1981 , Müller was imprisoned for co-science and was banned from the first and second leagues until German reunification.
Career
The son of soccer player Lothar Müller started at Dresden's BSG Empor Tabak and came to SG Dynamo Dresden in 1969 via the FSV Lok Dresden . There played from 1973 to 1981 as a full-back in the league team. With this team he was three times GDR soccer champion and once GDR Cup winner. He played 90 games for Dynamo in the East German league and was used in 22 European Cup games, scoring eleven league goals and one goal in the European Cup as a defender.
His footballing skills brought Müller early appointments to the junior national team of the GDR. Here he was used 15 times and was part of the team that made it to the final of the UEFA youth tournament in 1973 (2: 3 against England). This was followed by four appearances in the youth national team before he completed his first international match on May 7, 1980 in the GDR game against the Soviet Union (2-2 in Rostock ). This was followed by three more international appearances, none of which he lost, as well as nine games with the GDR Olympic team, with which Müller won the silver medal in Moscow in 1980 .
On January 24, 1981, Matthias Müller was arrested by the GDR State Security Service at Berlin-Schönefeld Airport just before the GDR national team left for a tour of South America, together with his teammates Gerd Weber and Peter Kotte from Dresden . The three players were charged with attempting to cross the border illegally. While Weber was sentenced to prison, Kotte and Müller got away with it. Müller, like Kotte, was excluded from SG Dynamo Dresden and banned from the GDR Football Association (DFV) for life in the Oberliga and the second-rate GDR league.
From the 1981/82 season onwards, Müller played with lower-class teams such as TSG Meißen (until 1983), progress Neustadt (1983/86), activist Brieske Senftenberg (1986/89) and TSG Elsterwerda . Only 13 games in the second highest division in GDR football, the league , were played by the ex-national player after his involuntary departure from SG Dynamo Dresden. In 1990 Müller ended his active career with Tennis Borussia Berlin .
Matthias Müller later worked as a trainer. After taking care of SV Wesenitztal, he took over the coaching position at Bischofswerdaer FV for the 2008/09 season . He is currently the coach of the national league club Radebeuler BC and celebrated promotion to this league in the 2016/2017 season.
successes
- Olympic silver in Moscow in 1980
- 4 international A matches for the GDR national team
- 7 international B matches for the GDR national team
- 18 junior internationals for the GDR
- 22 EC inserts (1 gate)
- 3 × GDR champions
- 2 × FDGB cup winners
- 90 GDR league games (11 goals)
literature
- German sport echo : born 1973–1989. ISSN 0323-8628
- Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 328.
- Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 306.
- DFSF (ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949–1991 (Volume 8). Berlin 2010, p. 272.
Web links
- Matthias Müller in the database of weltfussball.de
- Matthias Müller in the database of fussballdaten.de
- Matthias Müller in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
- Matthias Müller in the database of the German Football Association
- League game statistics at rsssf.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller, Matthias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |