Wolfgang Seguin

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Wolfgang Seguin
Wolfgang Seguin World Cup 1974.jpg
Wolfgang Seguin (1974)
Personnel
birthday September 14, 1945
place of birth Castle near MagdeburgSBZ
size 177 cm
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
1953-1963 BSG unit Burg
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1963-1981 SC (construction) / 1. FC Magdeburg 403 (48)
1981-1986 BSG Motor Middle Magdeburg
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1972 DDR Olympia 4 (0)
1972-1975 GDR 21 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Wolfgang "Paule" Seguin (born September 14, 1945 in Burg near Magdeburg ) is a former German football player. In the top division of GDR football , the Oberliga , he played for SC (construction) and 1. FC Magdeburg . He was three times GDR champion and won the GDR soccer cup five times . In 1974 he was in the FCM team that won the European Cup Winners' Cup . In the senior national team , he completed 21 games. With the Olympic selection he won the bronze medal at the Summer Games in Munich in 1972.

Athletic career

Castle and Magdeburg

Seguin's football career began in 1953 with BSG Einheit in his hometown of Burg near Magdeburg. It was here that he earned his nickname "Paule" while still a schoolboy, because in his spare time he was constantly walking around the burger goalkeeper named Paule. In the junior team of the BSG unit Seguin showed consistently good performances as a striker, and so the focus club of the region, SC Aufbau Magdeburg, caused the change to the Magdeburg league team in the summer of 1963. There, at the age of 18, he was used for the first time as a right winger on February 9, 1964 in the league point game SC Aufbau - SC Turbine Erfurt (2-2). After two games in the 1963/64 season, Seguin had already won a regular place in the attack formation of the SC structure a year later with 17 missions. When Magdeburg's first cup win on June 13, 1964, he was not there. The following victorious cup finals in 1965, 1969, 1973, 1978 and 1979 took place with Seguin. The Magdeburg Cup win in 1964 also helped Seguin to his first European Cup game, which he played on September 17, 1964 in the second leg of the first round of the Cup Winners' Cup at Galatasaray Istanbul (1: 1).

Seguin had a low point in his career in the 1965/66 season. At the end of the season, 1. FC Magdeburg, which was founded after the football section was spun off from SC Aufbau, had to relegate to the second-class GDR league . With 23 of 30 point games Seguin was significantly involved in the immediate resurgence and already reached in the following season 1967/68 with Oberliga place 3 his so far best placement, to which he had made a decisive contribution with 19 point games and four goals. In 1968/69 Seguin completed all 26 league point games for the first time and scored his most league goals with six goals in addition to the 1972/73 season. In 1972 Seguin became football champion for the first time. He had again completed all 26 point games and thus started a series of uninterrupted missions until December 1, 1979. During this time, the 1.77 meter tall Seguin moved from attack to midfield.

Up to and including the 1972/73 season, Seguin had also played 14 of the 16 European Cup games in Magdeburg. After winning the cup in 1973, 1. FC Magdeburg started its most successful European cup season, which it crowned with a 2-0 win over AC Milan by winning the cup . Seguin was in all nine games and made the final on May 8, 1974 with his 2-0 goal perfect. With his last European Cup game on October 22, 1980 at the UEFA Cup match at AC Turin (1: 3), Seguin has played a total of 57 European Cup games, another FCM record that has not yet been surpassed.

After his series of 219 league point games was interrupted in 1979, in which he was GDR champion two more times, Seguin played his last league season for FCM in 1980/81, in which he was used again in 14 point games. In addition to his 380 league point games, he was also used in 23 GDR league games, 69 national and 57 European cup matches, so that his competitive games add up to 529 appearances. In these games he scored a total of 64 goals. Following his league time, Seguin was player-coach at the fourth-class BSG Motor Mitte Magdeburg from 1981 to 1986 , which he helped to advance to the district league in 1982 .

Selection bets

Seguin played his first international game on October 6, 1963 with the junior national team together with his teammate Manfred Zapf and with his later teammates in the senior national team Jürgen Croy , Harald Irmscher , Horst Wruck and Rainer Schlutter . In total, Seguin was used four times in the U-18 selection of the DFV. This was followed by six games with the youth national team between 1965 and 1969 .

Seguin made his first international match on May 27, 1972 in the encounter between GDR and Uruguay (1-0). In September of the same year, Seguin played four games with the GDR Olympic team at the final tournament of the Olympic Games in Munich. He was also in the small final, in which the GDR and the Soviet Union won the bronze medal after a 2-2 draw.

Seguin played a total of 21 games with the senior national team. According to FIFA's interpretation , there are 19. He was part of the squad of the GDR national team at the 1974 World Cup and was used in the preliminary round match against Chile. His last international match took place on September 3, 1975 in Moscow against the Soviet Union (0-0). Of these games, Seguin won 13 games, five times he drew and only three times he went off as a loser. He did not score during these encounters.

successes

International

  • 1974 European Cup Winners' Cup
  • Bronze at the Olympic Games in 1972
  • Participation in the 1974 World Cup

National

Further career

While still active, Seguin completed a degree in mechanical engineering. After finishing his career as an active soccer player, Seguin became property manager in Magdeburg's Heinrich-Germer-Stadion . After German reunification, Seguin settled in Stendal . In order to continue to have professional security, he completed retraining as a building cleaner in Lower Saxony and then opened a building and glass cleaning company in Magdeburg, which he expanded into a flourishing company with a three-digit number of employees. He later handed them over to his sons and settled in Stendal. With his company, Seguin sponsored 1. FC Magdeburg for a long time, but ended his commitment when he was not awarded the contract for cleaning the new Magdeburg stadium. Nevertheless, he remained connected to the FCM, in 2009 he was a member of the supervisory board, currently he is a member of the sports advisory board.

Trivia

Seguin has two records at the Magdeburg club that can no longer be surpassed: he played the most games in the GDR league for Magdeburg with 380 appearances and was used in 219 league games between 1971 and 1979 without interruption.

His sons were or are also active as footballers. Norman played for MSV 90 Preußen Magdeburg , Paul played for VfL Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga and is currently active for SpVgg Greuther Fürth .

literature

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Seguin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Wolfgang Seguin - Matches and Goals in Oberliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. February 5, 2015. Retrieved February 6, 2015.
  2. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Wolfgang Seguin - International Appearances . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. February 5, 2015. Retrieved February 6, 2015.
  3. Player information on kicker.de, accessed on November 17, 2014