Wolfgang Abraham

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Wolfgang Abraham
Wolfgang Abraham (1973) .jpg
Wolfgang Abraham (1973)
Personnel
Surname Wolfgang Abraham
birthday January 23, 1942
place of birth Osterburg ,  German Empire
date of death 3rd February 2013
position Winger
Juniors
Years station
1950-1958 BSG unit Osterburg
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1958-1963 SC construction Magdeburg 7 0(0)
1963-1965 BSG turbine Magdeburg 43 (19)
1965-1966 BSG Locomotive Stendal 27 0(9)
1966-1977 1. FC Magdeburg 215 (57)
1 Only league games are given.

Wolfgang Abraham (born January 23, 1942 in Osterburg ; † February 3, 2013 ) was a German football player who was active in the GDR . In 1974 he won the European Cup Winners' Cup with 1. FC Magdeburg in the final against AC Milan .

Career

Wolfgang Abraham (right) and his teammates after winning the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1973/74
Wolfgang Abraham (left) and his teammates after winning the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1973/74

Abraham was a dangerous winger , but was also used as a stopper towards the end of his career . In 1950 he began playing soccer at the BSG Einheit Osterburg . In 1958 he went to Magdeburg , where he first played at SC Aufbau Magdeburg with his first seven first division appearances and then from 1963 for the BSG Turbine Magdeburg . There he was also the team captain. In the spring of 1965 Abraham moved to Lok Stendal in the GDR league , but only became a regular player in the 1965/66 season with 23 games this season. With the participation in the final of the GDR soccer cup ( FDGB cup ) of 1966 (0: 1 against Chemie Leipzig ) he reached his first career high point. After 27 games and nine goals for Lok Stendal, Abraham went to 1. FC Magdeburg in 1966 , the soccer club that was separated from the SC (construction) Magdeburg . The Magdeburg district's football performance center had just been relegated to the second-rate GDR league and thus played a class lower than Lok Stendal.

At the end of the 1966/1967 season , Abraham rose again to the league with his new team, with Abraham making a significant contribution with 16 goals after Jürgen Sparwasser as the second-best goalscorer in Magdeburg. In the league he completed a total of 196 games for FCM or its predecessor until he left in 1977, scoring 41 goals. In 1974 he was in the winning team of the European Cup Winners' Cup (2-0 against AC Milan ). With 1. FC Magdeburg, Abraham was three times GDR champion (1972, 1974, 1975) and twice a cup winner (1969 against FC Karl-Marx-Stadt 4-0, 1973 against 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig 3-2). In the first Magdeburg championship season he was the team's top scorer with 13 goals, including 7 converted penalties, and the second best in the league after Hans-Jürgen Kreische . In the European Cup , he was on the ball in 17 games for Magdeburg.

Further career

After his active career he remained loyal to 1. FC Magdeburg as team leader, later technical director and, after the fall of the Wall, briefly as vice-president, before he withdrew more and more. In a newspaper interview by Volksstimme in the spring of 2009, his former FCM teammate Wolfgang Seguin reported that Abraham had broken off all contacts with 1. FC Magdeburg since 1990. On February 22, 2013, the former European Cup winner, who had died 19 days earlier at the age of 71, was buried in Magdeburg's Westfriedhof.

Track record

  • 223 games in the GDR league, 50 goals
  • Victory in the 1974 European Cup Winners' Cup
  • GDR soccer champions 1972, 1974, 1975
  • GDR cup winner 1969, 1973

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Joachim Malli: "Bomber" Abraham - a mainstay of the golden era of the FCM. In: Volksstimme . March 22, 2013, accessed July 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Abraham, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Osterburg (Altmark) , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 2013
Place of death Magdeburg , Germany