Werner Wagner (soccer coach)

Werner Wagner is a former German soccer coach. In 1959 he was in charge of BSG Chemie Zeitz and in 1961/62 the BSG Lokomotive Stendal in the GDR Oberliga, the top division in GDR football .

Coaching career

For the 1957 season (calendar year season) Werner Wagner took over the coaching position of the first soccer team of the company sports association (BSG) Chemie Zeitz. This was constantly represented in the second-rate GDR league since 1950 and had reached eighth place out of fourteen teams in the 1956 preseason. In 1957 he took over a well-rehearsed team with few departures but hardly any noteworthy additions. At the end of the season, Wagner had improved his team slightly to sixth. With the team still barely changed, Wagner succeeded in helping them move up to the GDR league. Among other things, it was decisive that he had developed the only 18-year-old Bernd Bauchspieß into a powerful striker. With 18 goals he had scored 43 percent of all Zeitzer goals. It had also succeeded in keeping the fiercest competitor for promotion, Lokomotive Stendal, relegated from the league, at a distance. Coach Wagner owed it primarily to his pupil Bernd Bauchspieß that Chemie Zeitz was able to assert itself as a newcomer to the top division. With his 19 goals, Bauchspieß was not only the top goalscorer in Zeitzer, but also the top scorer in the league. Despite this success, Wagner left BSG Chemie Zeitz after the end of the 1959 season. After a year of absence from higher-class football, Wagner signed up for the 1961/62 season (return to the summer-spring game rhythm) from former competitor Lok Stendal. The Stendal had just been promoted to the league, but did not have the quality to keep up. Together with his assistant trainer Kurt Weißenfels , Wagner continued to look after the BSG locomotive even after relegation, and in the 1962/63 season he returned to the league. Then he finally said goodbye to higher-class football.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1957–1963. ISSN  0323-8628
• DFSF (Ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949–1991 (Volume 2, 3). Berlin 2006, 2007.

Web links

• Werner Wagner in the database of the German Football Association