Siegmar Wätzlich

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Siegmar Wätzlich
Siegmar Wätzlich World Cup 1974.jpg
Siegmar Wätzlich (1974)
Personnel
birthday November 16, 1947
place of birth Rammenau ,  SBZ
date of death April 18, 2019
size 176 cm
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
0000-1965 SG Rammenau
1965-1966 Dynamo Dresden
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1966-1975 Dynamo Dresden 156 (10)
1970-1976 SG Dynamo Dresden II 10 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1972 DDR Olympia 3 (0)
1972-1975 GDR 24 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
Wätzlich (r.) As a scorer against Hansa Rostock

Siegmar Wätzlich (born November 16, 1947 in Rammenau , Bautzen district , Saxony , † April 18, 2019 ) was a German football player. The defender from Dynamo Dresden played in 24 international matches for the GDR national team . He won the bronze medal with the Olympic selection at the 1972 Olympic Games and took part in the 1974 World Cup with the national team.

Soccer career

League player

Wätzlich came from a family of butchers and also learned this trade. He started playing football in Rammenau under trainer Gerhard Roker and remained connected to the local SG Rammenau even after his delegation to Dynamo Dresden. As early as 1967 he worked there on a voluntary basis as a trainer.

"Wätzer" came to Dynamo Dresden in 1965 and played there between 1967 and 1975, usually as a left-back, 139 point games in the Oberliga , the top division of GDR football . He scored ten goals. Recurring injuries prevented a better performance record. At the age of almost 19 he was included in the squad of the league team for the first time for the 1967/68 season. He was supposed to replace the long-term injured Steffen Engelmohr and was used from the first league match day. Initially playing as a central defender, he immediately won a regular place and played all 26 games of the season. At the end of the season Dynamo had to relegate from the league and Wätzlich spent a year in the second division. Due to an injury, he was only able to contribute to immediate promotion with 17 missions. In the new league season 1969/70 he was only used again from the 10th game day, but was then a permanent left-back in the team. 1970/71 was a successful season for Dynamo Dresden with winning the championship and the GDR soccer cup . Wätzlich was only involved in the championship with six games and played in the final on June 2, 1971 in a 2-1 victory over BFC Dynamo only 14 minutes in overtime. In the following seasons he was spared serious injuries and was a fixture on the left side of the defense. In 1973 he won his second championship, to which he had contributed with 20 stakes. He completed his last league season in 1975/76. In the first half of the season he was able to play ten point games as a left-back, then a meniscus damage forced him to end his athletic career. His last league game took place on December 20, 1975 when 1. FC Lok Leipzig - Dynamo Dresden (0: 2) took place. Since Dynamo won the championship again at the end of the season, this crowned Wätzlich's career with the third championship title.

International assignments

Due to the very good placements in the league, Dynamo Dresden played 26 games in various European Cup competitions during Wätzlich's active time . Wätzlich played his first of 17 European Cup games on September 20, 1967 in the trade fair cup match between Dynamo Dresden and Glasgow Rangers (1-1). The highlights of his European Cup career include the quarter-final match in the UEFA Cup on March 21, 1973 in Dresden against Liverpool (0: 1) and the two games against Bayern Munich in the 1973/74 championship cup - with his only EC goal in the 3: 3 in the first leg.

During his solid league season 1971/72 Wätzlich was in the squad of the East German national team called the parallel as Olympic Team to the Olympic finals tournament in 1972 in Munich prepared. He played the first three games of the tournament, with the encounter between GDR and Ghana (4-0) on August 28, 1972 in the Bavarian capital (4-0) was his first international match. The GDR closed the tournament by winning the bronze medal. Although Wätzlich only participated in the first qualifying game for the 1974 World Cup, also held in West Germany (GDR - Finland 5-0), he was also nominated for the first and only World Cup finals for a GDR team. He played all three games of the 1st final round and the first game of the 2nd final round against Brazil. After that, he injured himself and had to fly home. Before that, he was involved in the legendary 1-0 victory of the GDR over the Federal Republic of Germany. Wätzlich belonged to the national team until the end of his football career in 1975. His 24th and last international match he played in the 1: 2 defeat in Reykjavík in the European Championship qualifier against Iceland. Also in the national team Wätzlich had played in his regular position of left defender.

successes

  • GDR champion 1971, 1973, 1976
  • GDR cup winner 1971
  • Bronze medal at the 1972 Olympic Games
  • Participation in the 1974 World Cup

After active football

In 1977 Wätzlich and his wife Ingrid, whom he married in 1973 and with whom he had two children, took over his parents' restaurant in his home town of Rammenau. In the early 1990s he suffered from liver and kidney disease and had to go on dialysis for five years . In 1998 he had to undergo a double organ transplant in the Jena University Hospital . After his recovery he trained for many years with the regional league eleven of the local SV 1910 Edelweiss Rammenau. After a short, serious illness, he died at the age of 71 on Maundy Thursday 2019.

literature

Web links

Commons : Siegmar Wätzlich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dynamo Dresden mourns Siegmar Wätzlich. In: Radio Dresden . April 18, 2019, accessed April 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Incredible, Siegmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Rammenau , Bautzen district , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 2019