Paul Nowak (soccer player)

Paul Nowak (born February 17, 1921 ) was a football player in Weißenfels . For SC Progress Weissenfels he played in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of the GDR Football Association .

After the soccer team of the Betriebssportgemeinschaft (BSG) Progress Weissenfels was able to place itself in the top field of the second-rate GDR league between 1952 and 1954 , promotion to the GDR was achieved in the 1954/55 season, in which the BSG was converted into the Progress Sports Club -Uper league. One of the assets of this success was the 33-year-old right-back Paul Nowak. Despite his advanced football age, he still played the majority of the 26 point games and was especially in three of the four promotion round games in the Weissenfels defense. Since GDR football was played according to the calendar year rhythm from 1956, there was a simple transition round in autumn 1955, in which all teams only met once. Progress Weissenfels already completed this round in the major league and achieved a remarkable 7th place as a newcomer among 14 teams after completing the 13 games. Nowak was still part of the game as a right-back and was only missing in three games. At the beginning of the next regular league season in 1956 Nowak was already 35 years old. The new coach Herbert Worbs no longer planned with him as a regular player and only used him sporadically in five point games. Nowak played his last league game again as a right defender on September 5, 1956 in the match on the 18th match day between SC activist Brieske-Senftenberg and SC progress Weissenfels (1-0).

footnote

1. ↑ Nowack for some sources

literature

• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 .
• GDR sports newspaper Deutsches Sportecho . Born 1954 to 1956