Mirko Votava

Mirko Votava
Personnel
Surname	Miroslav Votava
birthday	April 25, 1956
place of birth	Prague ,  Czechoslovakia
size	181 cm
position	Defensive Midfield
Juniors
Years	station
	Dukla Prague
1968-1973	VfL Witten
1973-1974	Borussia Dortmund
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1974-1982	Borussia Dortmund	264 (28)
1982-1985	Atlético Madrid	95 0(9)
1985-1996	Werder Bremen	357 (18)
1996-1998	VfB Oldenburg	28 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1979-1981	Germany	5 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1997-1998	VfB Oldenburg
1998-1999	SV Meppen
2002-2004	Union Berlin
2004-2017	Werder Bremen U19
2017–	Werder Bremen II (assistant coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Miroslav "Mirko" Votava (born April 25, 1956 in Prague , Czechoslovakia ) is a German - Czech football coach and former player.

Life

youth

The native Czech "Mirko" Votava played as a child in what was then Czechoslovakia with Dukla Prague and, like his brother, was trained there by his father Josef Votava. He and his parents came to West Germany (FRG) shortly before the Prague Spring in 1968. The family then moved on to Australia , but soon returned to Germany. From then on Mirko played with his older brother Josef in the youth team of VfL Witten and attended the Freiligrath school in Witten - Annen .

Professional career

In 1973 Josef Votava, who was considered the more talented of the brothers, moved to Borussia Dortmund , which, after being relegated from the Bundesliga , played in the Regionalliga , the second highest division at the time. During the season, Mirko, who moved to the BVB youth team in 1973, made his first seven appearances in the professional team as a youth. As a transfer fee, Borussia paid 1,500 DM to the then Witten league club. Mirko received a professional contract for the 1974/75 season and was a regular player in the newly established 2nd Bundesliga straight away . At the beginning of his time at Borussia Dortmund, Votava trained as a high-voltage electrician in Witten and only trained in the evening. At the beginning of his professional career he still worked in the mornings as an electrician at the Gneisenau colliery in Dortmund-Derne .

Votava initially played as a stopper , later he was mainly used as a defensive midfielder . While Josef's time at Borussia was already over after two seasons, Mirko rose to the Bundesliga with BVB in 1976 and stayed there until 1982. During this time, he played 189 Bundesliga games and scored 25 goals. In 1978 Votava received German citizenship ; in his first years as a professional he played as a stateless person .

One day before the start of the 1982/83 season he moved to Atlético Madrid in Spain for the then record transfer fee of 1.3 million DM , where he made 95 appearances and nine goals in the Primera División by 1985. With the club he won the Spanish Football Cup in 1985 . Then Votava went back to the Bundesliga for Werder Bremen . There he made 357 missions up to the 1996/97 season, scored 18 goals and celebrated his greatest successes under coach Otto Rehhagel - for a long time as captain of the team . With Werder he was German soccer champion in 1988 and 1993 , DFB cup winner in 1991 and 1994 and European cup winners ' cup in 1992 . During the 1996/97 season he moved to the 2nd Bundesliga for VfB Oldenburg , with whom he was relegated at the end of the season. In the following season he ended his playing career in the Regionalliga Nord .

With a total of 546 Bundesliga games, Mirko Votava is fifth on the list of Bundesliga players with the most appearances . With his goal in the 1: 2 defeat against VfB Stuttgart on August 24, 1996, the 3rd matchday of the 1996/97 season, he is the second oldest goalscorer in the Bundesliga (40 years and 121 days). He is also the record player in the DFB Cup with 79 appearances .

Through his naturalization in the Federal Republic of Germany, the Czech Votava also got the right to play for the DFB soccer team and played here five times from 1979 to 1981. He was with the team at the European football championship in 1980 in Italy football European champion; However, he was only used in the group game against Greece .

For winning the European Football Championship in 1980 he received the Silver Laurel Leaf from Federal President Carstens.

Further career

After his playing career, Votava became a football coach. In July 1997 he took over VfB Oldenburg in the regional soccer league as a player-coach, from July 1998 to April 1999 he coached SV Meppen . In 2000 he became chief scout at Werder Bremen ; from November 2002 he took over the second division club 1. FC Union Berlin , where he was replaced in March 2004 by Aleksandar Ristić .

During the 2004 European Championships , he worked as an observer for Otto Rehhagel , then coach of the Greek national soccer team , but this only became known later. When asked what part he had in the Greek tournament victory, he replied in the district newspaper published in Syke on April 25, 2006: "At least I made no mistakes."

From November 2004 to February 2017 Votava coached the Werder Bremen U19s. He then became assistant coach of the U23 team at Werder Bremen. On October 30, 2017, he temporarily took over the team as head coach, after Florian Kohfeldt looked after the first team after Alexander Nouri's dismissal until the search for a new coach. After Sven Hübscher took over the U23 as a coach, Votava continues to train the U23 as an assistant coach.

titles and achievements

As a player

• Promotion to the Bundesliga in 1976 with Borussia Dortmund
• 1980 European champion with Germany
• Spanish cup winner 1985 with Atlético Madrid
• German champion in 1988 and 1993 with Werder Bremen
• German Supercup winner in 1988, 1993 and 1994 with Werder Bremen
• German cup winner 1991 and 1994 with Werder Bremen
• 1992 European Cup Winners' Cup with Werder Bremen

As a trainer

• Champion in the Junior Bundesliga (U19) North / Northeast 2007, 2009 and 2016 with Werder Bremen

Familiar

His son Dennis (* 1980) became German youth champion in 1999 with the so-called golden generation of Werder Bremen , which was also the greatest success of the A-youth in the club's history. After that, however, he did not get past assignments in the second team of Bremen with games in the Regionalliga Nord and then only played in lower-class amateur football.

literature

• Alfred Möller: Votava career began at VfL - Borussia caught Witten rough diamonds . In: Witten current. Edition 64/2007, p. 16.
• Such a day ... The match reports on the legendary BVB Borussia Dortmund games from 1963 to today from the Westfälische Rundschau - newspaper for Dortmund . Edition Steffan, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-923838-03-4 .

Web links

• Mirko Votava in the database of weltfussball.de
• Mirko Votava in the database of fussballdaten.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c in} detail in: Two complete careers in just one footballer's life , in: Borussia - Das Memberermagazin, Issue 118 of December 20, 2016, p. 52 ff.
2. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Miroslav Votava - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. February 19, 2015. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
3. ↑ Match report on transfermarkt.de, accessed on October 26, 2017.
4. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Miroslav Votava - International Appearances . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. February 19, 2015. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
5. ↑ Federal Archives: Sports Awards (Silver Laurel): Awarding of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the German national football team (European championship 1980), signature BArch B 122/29165.
6. ↑ Werder idol Mirko Votava turns 60 Website Werder Bremen, April 25, 2016, accessed on May 20, 2016.
7. ↑ VOTAVA HAS TO GET TOO FOR GROTE
8. ↑ Werder Bremen separates from coach Nouri. In: kicker.de. October 30, 2017. Retrieved October 30, 2017 . 
9. ↑ German A-Youth Championship 20 years ago - What happened to Werder's golden generation? , accessed on March 16, 2020
10. ↑ Mirko Votava in the FuPa.net database , accessed on March 16, 2020