Michael Glowatzky

Michael Glowatzky
Personnel
birthday	July 1, 1960
place of birth	GDR
size	185 cm
position	Midfield , storm
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1979-1983	BSG Sachsenring Zwickau	45 0(5)
1983-1988	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	109 (32)
1988-3 / 89	BSG Sachsenring Zwickau II
4 / 89-10 / 89	BSG Sachsenring Zwickau	15 0(4)
12 / 89-1991	SpVgg Bayreuth	47 (15)
1991-1994	1. FC Schweinfurt 05	75 (21)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1985	DDR U-21	3 0(1)
1984-1986	GDR	9 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.

Michael Glowatzky (born July 1, 1960 ) is a former German soccer player. For the BSG Sachsenring Zwickau and the FC Karl-Marx-Stadt , he played in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of the GDR Football Association . For the GDR national team , he played nine full international matches.

Athletic career

Glowatzky joined BSG Sachsenring Zwickau in 1979, the company sports association of the western Saxon automobile plant of the same name . In November 1979 he had to start his one and a half year military service. On May 9, 1981 he gave his debut in the GDR league as a substitute in the match on the 23rd match day between BSG Sachsenring and BSG Wismut Aue (3-0). In the following season, 1981/82, the 1.85 m tall Glowatzky developed as a midfielder to become a regular in the Sachsenring team, playing 21 of 26 matches. After he had completed another 20 league games for Zwickau in 1982/83, Glowatzky left the BSG after 45 matches and five goals in order to play for the football center of the region, the FC Karl-Marx-Stadt (FCK).

At FCK Glowatzky was then set as a striker until 1988, only had a weaker season in 1986/87 with only twelve league matches. Within five seasons he played 109 league games and scored 32 goals. In 1985 and 1986 he was FCK's top scorer.

With his successful games, Glowatzky recommended himself for international tasks and was included in the squad of the GDR national team in 1984, which was trained by Bernd Stange during this time . On September 12, 1984, he played his first of nine A-internationals when he was used in the friendly game GDR against Greece (1-0) by Stange assistant Harald Irmscher as right winger. Because at that time the coach in charge was staying with the first set of the national team in London, as the DFV had completed two international matches that day. He scored his only international goal on October 20, 1984 in the GDR World Cup qualifier against Yugoslavia (2: 3) in Leipzig. Glowatzky had his last appearance in the senior national team in the friendly between Finland and GDR (1-0) on August 20, 1986. In addition, he played three international matches for the GDR youngsters in 1985 (one goal in a 3-2 win against Yugoslavia ).

In the summer of 1988 Glowatzky wanted to force a move back to the BSG Sachsenring Zwickau. After he had not received approval from the FCK, he boycotted the training for two months and was then banned from the GDR Oberliga and the GDR League by the GDR Football Association . Until March 1989 he played for the second team of the BSG Sachsenring in the third class district league . In April 1989 Glowatzky's suspension expired, and between the 19th matchday and 23rd matchday he played four league games for Zwickau. At the end of the season, the Zwickau were relegated to the GDR league.

Shortly after the opening of the GDR borders in November 1989, Glowatzky left Zwickau and joined SpVgg Bayreuth . There were only 41 days between his last game for West Saxony and the first appearance for Upper Franconia, a change of only around 110 kilometers, which would have resulted in at least a one-year ban by FIFA weeks before - assuming a successful escape . In 1989/90 he was one of the earliest former league and league players in West German professional football who had left the still existing GDR for the Federal Republic in the course of the mass exodus via Eastern Europe or after the fall of the Berlin Wall . Bayreuth President Hans Wölfel got the striker in the week before his debut for SpVgg against Hertha BSC on December 9, 1989 at the Bavarian Football Association, with the then amateur status. With SpVgg Glowatzky played 15 point games (one goal) as a midfielder in the 2nd Bundesliga until the end of the season , after which he was relegated with Bayreuth. In 1990/91 he played with SpVgg in the third division Bayernliga , played 32 games and scored another 14 goals. From 1991 to 1994 he was a player in the Bayern division 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 and then ended his career as a soccer player.

He was player-coach at 1. FC Creußen for a year. Then he coached TSV Kirchenlaibach Speichersdorf, with whom he rose to the district league in 2008. In 2010/11 he was a coach at the Upper Franconian regional division TSV Bindlach.

literature

• Andreas Baingo, Michael Hohlfeld: Soccer selection player of the GDR. The encyclopedia. Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00875-6 , pp. 53-54.
• 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 .
• Hanns Leske: The GDR league players. A lexicon. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-392-9 , p. 139.

Web links

• Michael Glowatzky in the database of the German Football Association
• Michael Glowatzky in the database of weltfussball.de
• Michael Glowatzky in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Michael Glowatzky league game overview at rsssf.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ fuwo - The New Football Week , September 18, 1984, pages 7–9.
2. ↑ For or against principles? In: fuwo - The new football week. December 13, 1988, p.12.
3. ^ Emil Georgius: Glowatzky missed flanks. In: kicker sports magazine . Dec 11, 1989, p. 46.