Thomas Michalowski

Thomas Michalowski (born August 7, 1962 in Zella-Mehlis ) was a goalkeeper in the GDR football game . He was one of the squads of FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt and FC Karl-Marx-Stadt in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of the GDR Football Association . He is a multiple young international player.

Michalowski came from BSG Motor Gispersleben to FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt in 1970 at the age of eight. In 1979 he was accepted into the squad of the GDR junior national team and played his first junior international match on November 14, 1979 in the encounter Bulgaria - GDR (0-0). Until 1981 Michalowski was the goalkeeper of the junior team, for which he played a total of 30 international matches. From 1979 to 1981 he played for FC Rot-Weiß in the junior league.

After playing in the match between FC Rot-Weiß and Vorwärts Frankfurt / O on the last day of the 1980/81 season. (1: 3) had played his first game in the GDR Oberliga, the 1.84 m tall Michalowski was added to the league squad as the second goalkeeper behind Wolfgang Benkert for the 1981/82 season . However, he was not used and was downgraded back to the junior league for the 1982/83 season. During the 1983/84 and 1984/85 seasons Michalowski was goalkeeper at the second-rate BSG Motor Nordhausen . In 1984/85 he played all 34 point games for the GDR league club .

At the beginning of the 1985/86 season, Michalowski made a new attempt in the GDR league at FC Karl-Marx-Stadt. There, however, Michael Kompalla was initially number one in goal and coach Heinz Werner only used Michalowski once as a substitute and once in the final game over 90 minutes during the entire season. 1986/87 Michalowski got his chance when Kompalla injured himself at the beginning of the season, but after six missions Michalowski had to go back to the second link. In 1987/88 he was once again in the Oberliga lineup of FC Karl-Marx-Stadt, but was no longer used, among other things because a new goalkeeper had been built with the six years younger Holger Hiemann . Michalowski's last appearance for FCK in the league game on October 18, 1986 Wismut Aue - FC Karl-Marx-Stadt (1: 1) was also his last appearance in higher-class football. In the GDR Oberliga he had only been in goal nine times in three seasons.

literature

• 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 .