Matthias Schulz (soccer player)

Matthias Schulz (born September 13, 1963 in Dresden ) is a former German soccer player and today's soccer coach. For Dynamo Dresden and Stahl Riesa , he played at times in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of the GDR Football Association .

Soccer career

Young players

At the age of almost 13, Matthias Schulz joined the 1st children's team of SG Dynamo Dresden and then went through the other Dynamo youth teams. From 1980 he played in the junior league and was GDR junior champion in 1981 and 1982 with Dynamo. 1981 Schulz belonged to the squad of the junior national team, for which he played an international match on October 15, 1981. In the encounter between the GDR and the Soviet Union (4-0), he was substituted on in the 62nd minute. 1982/83 he was active in the youth team of Dynamo Dresden and won the GDR youth championship with her. After the dissolution of the junior league, Schulz played from 1983/84 at Dynamo Dresden II as a midfielder, initially in the third-class Dresden district league . Within a year he helped the team to the district championship, to win the district cup and to rise to the GDR league .

With Dynamo Dresden in the GDR league

On March 17, 1984, the 1.83 m tall Schulz played his first game in the GDR league. In the game Dynamo Dresden - Union Berlin (2-0) he came on the field in the 79th minute. For the 1984/85 season he was nominated again for the 2nd team and was only used in the winter of 1984 for the injured midfielder Hans-Uwe Pilz in four league games. Neither 1984 nor 1985 he was in the GDR Cup finals won by Dynamo. Schulz was officially nominated for the Dresden league team for the 1985/86 and 1986/87 seasons, but was only called up in league games eight times during this period. For the 1987/88 season he appeared in neither the 1st or 2nd team. After he had not played in the league in the first half of the 1987/88 season, Schulz left Dynamo Dresden at the turn of the year.

From relegation to the end of your career

At the beginning of 1988 Schulz joined the upper division Stahl Riesa . There he was used six times in the remaining 13 league games, never played full time and was only twice in the starting eleven. At the end of the season Stahl Riesa rose from the league. In November 1988 Schulz was drafted into the army. As a soldier, he was initially able to play football in the fourth-class Halle district class of the Vorwärts Wolfen army sports community. When the GDR People's Army was disbanded in 1990 as part of German reunification, Schulz was taken over by the district division Chemie Wolfen for the remainder of the 1989/90 season . Schulz then moved to BSG activist pump Hoyerswerda for the 1990/91 season , where he experienced the last GDR league season. At the beginning of the 1991/92 season he returned to Dresden and joined the re-established Dresdner SC . With him he rose in the summer of 1992 to the then third-class amateur league . In November 1993 Schulz ended his career as a football player in the performance area. As a recreational footballer, he was active until 2007 with the Dresden district class team SG Kesselsdorf.

coach

After Schulz had taken a break from football for almost two years, in 1995 he accepted the Dresdner SC's offer to take over the position of manager. For the 1997/98 season he was the coach of the DSC amateur league team and immediately led them to the third-class regional league at that time . In August 2001 he signed the second division relegated Chemnitzer FC to form a new team for the regional league. With this team Schulz reached sixth place at the end of the 2001/02 season, was then dismissed on October 31, 2002 after seven defeats in a row. In January 2003 he was coach of the amateur upper division club Oberlausitzer FC Neugersdorf for a year . At the beginning of 2004 he returned to Dynamo Dresden, where he became a junior coach.

Private

Schulz started working as a sales manager in the food industry as early as 1994. Since 2003 Schulz has been co-managing director of the Sachsenwerk Arena, which operates the football hall of the same name in Dresden. In addition, Schulz is a sports teacher at the Sports High School in Dresden .

literature

• 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 .
• GDR sports newspaper Deutsches Sportecho . Edition of November 8, 1984 with a short biography
• Sächsische Zeitung: We live with Hansi Kreische in a house , issue of September 13, 2013