Werner Okupniak

Werner Okupniak (born February 7, 1940 ) was a football player in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of the East German Football Association. There he played for SC Chemie Halle and 1. FC Magdeburg .

Soccer career

Okupniak started his soccer career with the company sports club Motor Ammendorf in Halle . As a junior player he was a defender of the GDR junior national team, with whom he played nine international matches between 1957 and 1958. 1960 rose Okupniak with the men's team in the third class II. GDR league .

At the beginning of the 1961/62 season, Okupniak was delegated by his Ammendorfer sports community to the region’s football center, the GDR upper division SC Chemie Halle . There he got off to a good start with 28 of 39 league league games (the season lasted 16 months because the game year was changed from the calendar year to the autumn-spring rhythm). On June 10, 1962, he celebrated the greatest success of his football career by winning the GDR football cup . In the 3-1 victory of SC Chemie over SC Dynamo Berlin , he was the right defender on the field. Until 1964, Okupniak played with some regularity in the Halle league team. In the 1964/65 season he had to compete in the second-rate GDR league for a year because of the relegation of his team . After the immediate resurgence, Okupniak played 30 of 32 point games by the 6th day of the 1966/67 season.

Then Okupniak moved to the first league promoted 1. FC Magdeburg . There he was used for the first time in the first team in the FCM cup game at TSG Wismar (3: 1 for Magdeburg) on ​​December 26, 1967, but Okupniak only played once for FCM in a league game: on April 27, 1968 In the encounter between Hansa Rostock and 1. FCM (3: 2), he was called up as the central defender for the not ready for action Rolf Retschlag . At the end of the 1968/69 season Okupniak was adopted by 1. FC Magdeburg .

The now 29-year-old Okupniak continued his sporting career as a player -coach at BSG Chemie Leuna , which he led to a remarkable 7th place as a climber in the third-class regional league at the time .

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 346.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pp. 320, 333.
• Laube, Malli: 1. FC Magdeburg - My Club . Magdeburg 2000, ISBN 3-930794-02-0 .

Web links

• Werner Okupniak in the database of the German Football Association