Max Wozniak

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Max Wozniak (born September 22, 1926 in Cologne ) is a Polish-American Jewish soccer coach and soccer goalkeeper . In 1973 he briefly coached the US national team and won the USA soccer cup as coach of Maccabee SC (Los Angeles) .

Early life

Wozniak was born in Cologne to Jewish parents of Polish origin and grew up there up to 7th grade. In 1935, when he was nine years old, he started playing football at SC Hakoah Köln , which was founded in 1933 . The family was deported to Poland . After the German invasion of Poland , it was in the area occupied by German troops. After about six weeks, the occupying power changed to the USSR in accordance with the Hitler-Stalin Pact . During the Second World War he lived in Magnitogorsk , Russia , first as a student until 1942, and as a worker in the armaments industry until 1946. He then returned to Poland, where he worked, among other things, as an accountant for a coal mine.

goalkeeper

After his return to Poland he started playing football again, first at Żydowski Klub Sportowy , whose team consisted entirely of refugees and concentration camp survivors. In 1956 he migrated to Israel, where he played for Hapoel Kfar Saba . In 1959 he was elected to the selection team of the Israel-wide HaPoel association.

Trainer

1960/1961 Wozniak trained as a coach in Germany; he successfully took part in the 7th course at the DFB academy in Cologne to become a football teacher. Initially working as a trainer in Germany, he subsequently returned to Israel as a trainer for Hapoel Herzlia before emigrating to the USA in 1965. In the United States, Dan signed Tana Wozniak in 1967 as a coach for his new soccer franchise - LA's first professional soccer team - Los Angeles Toros in the National Professional Soccer League . He came there for one last professional goalkeeping mission because of bad injuries. After the end of the Toros in LA in 1968, he remained as a coach in LA, including the UCLA team and the Hollywood Stars , from 1972 of Maccabee SC , which he led to the US Cup in 1973, which made him famous in US football So that in 1973, after the failed qualification for the 1974 World Cup, he was appointed US national coach for a tour of Europe. On this tour with two international A matches against Bermuda (0: 4) and Poland (0: 4), as well as five other games against Italian club teams, B and U national teams, four other defeats (Poland-B 1: 2 , German U-23 1: 5, Belgium-B 0: 6, Lazio Rome 0: 7) only against the Italian third division team US Massese a 1-1 draw with six defeats and a total of 3:29 goals. Wozniak was immediately replaced by his assistant coach Gene Chyzowych .

With Maccabee SC he was however 1974 champions of the LA League, and also coached the Blue Star Torrance Soccer Club 1975–76 (champions 1976) and 1977–1978 the Los Angeles Skyhawks of the American Soccer League (II) .

Honors

In 1993 he was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Max Wozniak: The Big Boxing Match , in: How We Made Something Out of Nothing - Life Stories and Lessons From Our Generation to Yours , ed. Jeanette Shelburne, LA Unified School District, 2010, p. 178f., P. 179 ( pdf ( memento of the original from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and Archive link according to instructions and then remove this note. ). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jeanetteshelburne.com
  2. ^ A b c Barrie Courtney: The Year in American Soccer - 1973. (No longer available online.) In: American Soccer History Archives. January 23, 2005, archived from the original on July 13, 2013 ; accessed on October 18, 2013 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / homepages.sover.net
  3. ↑ Jürgen Roters , speech on the occasion of the awarding of the Julius Hirsch Prize 2010 by the DFB on September 7, 2010, 3:30 p.m., Historical Town Hall, Piazzetta, transcript on the website of the City of Cologne ( pdf ; accessed October 18, 2013 ).
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame: Max Wozniak. Retrieved October 18, 2013 .
  5. ^ The graduates of the 7th course , website of the Hennes-Weisweiler-Akademie , DFB.de (accessed October 18, 2013).
  6. ↑ a b c Max Wozniak. In: naslsoccer.blogspot.de/. April 13, 2010, accessed October 18, 2013 (French).
  7. ^ A b David Wangerin: Soccer in a Football World: The Story of America's Forgotten Game . WSC Books Limited, London 2006, ISBN 0-9540134-7-6 , pp. 160 f .
  8. ↑ Coutney describes the German team as the German "B" team in Duisburg , but in 1973 the German U-23s played and defeated the USA in Duisburg with 5-1.
personal data
SURNAME Wozniak, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-American soccer coach and soccer goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne