Wolfgang Matthies
| Wolfgang Matthies | ||
 Wolfgang Matthies (1986)
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | 17th July 1953 | |
| place of birth | East Berlin , GDR | |
| size | 186 cm | |
| position | goal | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1961-1968 | SG Adlershof | |
| 1968-1971 | FC Forward Berlin | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1971-1979 | 1. FC Union Berlin | 106 (0) |
| 1979-1981 | ASG forward five oaks | |
| 1981-1983 | 1. FC Union Berlin | 46 (0) |
| 1983-1985 | 1. FC Magdeburg | 15 (0) |
| 1985-1987 | 1. FC Union Berlin | 47 (0) |
| 1987-1988 | BSG KWO Berlin | 17 (0) |
| 1988 | 1. FC Union Berlin | 3 (0) |
| 1988-1989 | BSG KWO Berlin | |
| 1989 | BSG WBK Berlin | |
| 1990 | Reinickendorfer foxes | |
| 1990-1992 | Lichterfelder FC | |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1976-1977 | GDR B | 4 (0) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1979-1981 | Forward five oaks (player-coach) | |
| 1989 | BSG WBK Berlin (player-coach) | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Wolfgang "Potti" Matthies (born July 17, 1953 in East Berlin ) is a former German soccer player. He was in his playing career a. a. Active as goalkeeper for 1. FC Union Berlin and 1. FC Magdeburg .
Career
1961–1971: youth
Matthies began playing football in 1961 at SG Adlershof in the East Berlin district of Treptow . First he played in the field on the left winger's position , but then switched to goal after the goalkeeper was injured. Seven years later he went to FC Vorwärts Berlin and stayed there until 1971. He then joined 1. FC Union Berlin .
1971–1983: Debut at Union and ascent to idol
At Union he worked in the second team until 1973 and completed his training as an electrician at the same time. On September 15, 1974, Matthies made his competitive debut for the first team that played in the second-rate GDR league at the time in a 4-0 win against BSG Aufbau Schwedt . He came by the end of the season on another six league games and was used four times in the subsequent promotion round . Since Union did not reach the league in 1975 with 5th place in the promotion round, Matthies also played second class in 1975/1976. In the meantime he had taken over the position of goalkeeper from his predecessor Gerhard Weiss . Again he achieved the league season win with Union and this time was also successful in the promotion round.
In the following years "Potti" became an integral part of the Union team: From the first matchday of the 1976/1977 season to the seventh matchday of the 1979/1980 league season he was in the Union goal without interruption. Between November 1976 and August 1977 Matthies guarded the selection goal of the GDR B national team - often alternating with Bernd Jakubowski . In the fall of 1979 he was drafted into the army in the fall of 1979. In the following year and a half, he was given the opportunity to keep fit as a player-coach at ASG Vorwärts Fünfeichen near Neubrandenburg . From the summer of 1981, Matthies was back in goal at Union. His team was playing in the GDR league again at this point, but managed to return to the league this season. With his first-class performance he became a crowd favorite and was voted “Unioner of the Year” in 1982 and 1983.
1983–1988: Change to 1. FC Magdeburg and return
During the 1982/83 season, Matthies and his coach Harry Nippert fell out so much that he left 1. FC Union at the end of the season and joined the newly crowned FDGB cup winner 1. FC Magdeburg . There he was initially intended as reserve goalkeeper behind Dirk Heyne , but when he injured himself in 1984, Matthies was in the Magdeburg goal for a few months. Since he was later injured several times himself, he only ran 15 times for the league team. After two years in Magdeburg, Matthies returned to Union in the summer of 1985.
Union - Dynamo Dresden 4: 3:
Matthies saves from the Dresden Sammer
Immediately he was number one again in the Union goal, and as a celebrated returnee, the Union fans voted him again in 1986 as “Unioner of the Year”, and in 1987 he was also given this honor. In 1986 it was almost enough for Wolfgang Matthies to win a sporting title, but in the final of the FDGB Cup, Union with Matthies in goal was defeated by 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig 1: 5. After the 1986/1987 season, "Potti" actually said goodbye to competitive sports and moved to the Köpenick GDR league club BSG KWO Berlin . However, when Union goalkeeper Steffen Schlegel injured his arm in February 1988 , Matthies stood in goal again for three games. He played his last game for 1. FC Union Berlin on March 12, 1988 at Stahl Brandenburg (2: 3). In his eleven years at Union, he played a total of 253 competitive games, including 159 in the major league, 43 in the league, 25 in the cup, 20 in the promotion rounds and six in the Intertoto Cup .
After 1988: The time after Union
After leaving Union, Matthies played again at KWO Berlin until 1989 and then worked as a player-coach for BSG WBK Berlin . After the fall of the Berlin Wall , trainer Gerd Achterberg from West Berlin's amateur upper division club Reinickendorfer Füchse Matthies was able to persuade Matthies to make a comeback as a reserve keeper for the Füchse, for which he was even used in the promotion round to the 2nd Bundesliga . He then moved to Lichterfelder FC to replace the injured Rüdiger Plarre in 1990 , where he ended his active career at the age of 39 due to an abdominal operation. Nevertheless, he continued to play football and joined the senior team at SC Charlottenburg , which he still trains today.
At the end of 2006, on the occasion of a survey to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1. FC Union, he was voted the “most valuable union player of all time”.
literature
- Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 312.
- Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pp. 297, 333.
- Jörn Luther, Frank Willmann: And never forget - Iron Union! 1st edition. Basisdruck, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-86163-106-7 , p. 77, 100 ff. and 143 .
Web links
- Wolfgang Matthies in the database of weltfussball.de
- Wolfgang Matthies in the database of fussballdaten.de
- Wolfgang Matthies in the database of transfermarkt.de
- Wolfgang Matthies in the database of the German Football Association (with wrong date of birth)
- Wolfgang Matthies on immerunioner.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lichtenfelder FC Berlin 1892: History 1990–1992 ( Memento from April 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Berliner Zeitung : Stadium whispers ; Issued August 30, 1995.
- ↑ Over 50 sports club Charlottenburg, soccer department
- ^ 1. FC Union Berlin: Wolfgang "Potti" Matthies is the most valuable player of 1. FC Union Berlin of all time ; Article of December 18, 2006.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Matthies, Wolfgang |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Potti (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th July 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | East Berlin |