Matthias Zimmerling

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Matthias Zimmerling
Matthias Zimmerling 1988.jpg
1988 at 1. FC Lok
Personnel
birthday September 6, 1967
place of birth Leipzig ,  GDR
size 184 cm
position attack
Juniors
Years station
1979-1987 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1986-1987 BSG Chemie Leipzig 22 0(7)
1987-1989 1. FC Lok Leipzig 28 0(3)
1989-1990 Hannover 96 7 0(1)
1990 FC Sachsen Leipzig 1 0(0)
1990-1991 FC Berlin 5 0(0)
1991-1994 1. FC Union Berlin 75 (33)
1994-1995 Energy Cottbus 24 (14)
1995-1996 FC Carl Zeiss Jena 15 0(3)
1996-1997 Energy Cottbus 26 0(6)
1997 1. FC Union Berlin 7 0(0)
1998-1999 Austria Klagenfurt 13 0(1)
1999-2000 FC Sachsen Leipzig 23 0(9)
2000-2001 VfL Halle 1896 15 0(3)
2001-2002 Austria Klagenfurt
2002-2003 SAK Klagenfurt
2003-2004 ASV Klagenfurt
2004-2005 Klagenfurt AC
2005-2006 ASKÖ Wölfnitz
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1985-1987 GDR juniors 1600
1988 DDR U-21 4th00
1 Only league games are given.

Matthias Zimmerling (born September 6, 1967 in Leipzig ) is a former German football player. He played among other things in the GDR Oberliga and the 2nd Bundesliga . For the GDR Football Association , he played 20 youth international matches.

Soccer career

Young players

Zimmerling's football career began in 1979 in the children's team at 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig . From 1983 he played for 1. FC Lok in the junior league, two years later he was included in the squad of the GDR junior national team. With her he played on September 25, 1985, his first of 16 junior internationals. He was used as a left attacker in the encounter between the GDR and the Netherlands (1: 3). At the Junior World Cup in Chile in 1987 , he played all six games. In the game for third place, which the GDR won 3-1 on penalties in front of 70,000 spectators against the hosts, Zimmerling was one of the successful penalty takers. In 1988 he played four more international matches with the U-21 youth team. At this time he had already completed his training as a maintenance mechanic.

In the GDR league

For the 1986/87 season, 1. FC Lok Zimmerling reported for the GDR Oberliga. There he was not used in this season, instead he first played with the 2nd team in the third-rate district league . At the beginning of the second half of the season he was delegated to local rivals BSG Chemie Leipzig , where he played 14 point games for the rest of the season in the second-rate GDR league . In the 1987/88 season, too, the 1.84 m tall carpenter was initially part of the GDR league squad of BSG Chemie. After he had played eight more point games for the chemists and had a good hit rate with five goals, 1. FC Lok Leipzig brought him back in November 1987. For Lok he played his first GDR league game on November 7, 1987. In the game 1. FC Lok - Stahl Brandenburg (3-1) he was used as a left winger for 72 minutes. By the end of the season he played another eleven league games. In all matches he was either substituted or substituted. He scored his first league goal for Leipzig on matchday 16, March 12, 1988, when he scored the 2-0 final score for his team in the away game against BFC Dynamo. Zimmerling also began the 1988/89 season as a substitute, only playing for 90 minutes on matchday 10. Of his 16 point games this season, he completed only three over the full game. In front of 81,000 spectators in the Leipzig Central Stadium, Matthias Zimmerling scored the opening goal on October 26, 1988 in a 1-1 draw against SSC Napoli with Diego Maradona. This UEFA Cup duel was the last home game in the European Cup of 1. FC Lok Leipzig.

In the DFB game operation

In the 1989/90 season preview, Zimmerling was named as a departure without a goal at 1. FC Lok. In November 1989 he used the opening of the GDR border to join Hannover 96 . The 96th played at this time in the 2nd Bundesliga. As early as December 9, 1989, he made his debut in the home game of the 22nd matchday against 1. FC Saarbrücken when he was substituted on for the second half. He also played the following five appearances that season as a substitute. He scored his only goal for Hanover on matchday 35 in the home game against Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin , when he made it 2-0 after being substituted on. In the summer of 1990 he returned to Leipzig and joined the newly promoted GDR Oberliga FC Sachsen Leipzig . There he played the first point game of the season on August 11, 1990 for only 20 minutes. Just four weeks later, he was playing for league rivals FC Berlin, the successor club to BFC Dynamo . There he played five point games as a striker by the end of the first half of the season.

From 1991 to October 1994 Zimmerling was active at 1. FC Union Berlin . For the Berlin team he played in the third-class Oberliga-Nordost until the summer of 1994 . Of the 100 point games played, Zimmerling completed 74 matches, in which he developed into one of the Unioner's most successful attackers with 34 goals. As champions of the middle season, 1. FC Union qualified in 1994 for the newly established Regionalliga Nordost . There Zimmerling only played two point games before he joined league rivals Energie Cottbus in November 1994 . In Cottbus, too, he showed himself to be an accurate shooter. By the end of the 1994/95 season, he scored 14 goals in 13 games. In 1995/96 Zimmerling was a player in the second division club FC Carl Zeiss Jena, for which he played 15 games with three goals. Then he returned to Energie Cottbus, where he played another season in 1996/97. He helped the Lausitzers 26 league games and two relegation games as well as six goals to promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga and stood with the team on June 14, 1997 as a substitute for 25 minutes in the DFB Cup final , which the Cottbusers 2-0 against VfB Stuttgart lost. This was followed by further positions again at 1. FC Union (1997), at the Austrian third division club Austria Klagenfurt (1998–1999), again in Saxony Leipzig (1999/2000) and the regional league team VfL Halle 1896 (2000/01).

End of career in Austria

For the 2001/02 season Zimmerling returned to Klagenfurt . There, too, he continued his short-term changes. After a year with Austria, he joined the third division SAK for the 2002/03 season . It followed in 2003/04 the ASV in the fourth class Carinthian league and most recently in 2004/05 the fifth class Klagenfurt AC . In 2005/06, Zimmerling ended his career as a football player at the age of 38 at the Klagenfurt lower class club ASKÖ Wölfnitz.

In the spring of 2009 Zimmerling received a two-year contract as a coach with the upper division FSV Zwickau , but he was released in October. In September 2010 he took over the coaching position at the Allgäu district division FC Kempten .

With the start of the 2016/17 season, Zimmerling works as a match observer and scout for the fourth-class 1. FC Lok Leipzig.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Description in GDR football when a player was removed from a team that was funded by sport policy and transferred to a team that was not worthy of funding.

literature

  • Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 .
  • 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 .
  • DSFS: GDR Chronicle , Volume 7, 1984 / 85–1988 / 89
  • GDR sports newspaper Deutsches Sportecho , special editions 1983–1989, short biography in the January 16, 1989 edition.

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personal data
SURNAME Zimmerling, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1967