Wolfgang Seifert (soccer player)

Wolfgang Seifert (born February 13, 1927 , † February 4, 2002 ) was a German soccer player and soccer coach. With the SC Rotation Leipzig he played from 1954 to 1958 in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of GDR football . Among other things, he worked as a trainer for SC Turbine Erfurt .

Athletic career

Soccer player

Seifert came in 1954 from the lower-class company sports community (BSG) Einheit Karl-Marx-Stadt to the upper division BSG Einheit Ost Leipzig , which in November 1954 changed to SC Rotation Leipzig. Seifert was used from the first day of play in the league team and then only missed a point game. As a half-right striker, he scored twelve goals and was the most accurate player in Leipzig. In the fall of 1955, a so-called transition round was held in GDR football in order to then switch the game year to the calendar year rhythm. Thirteen match days were scheduled for this in the major league. Seifert was only able to play the first two games, on the second day he injured himself so badly that he was out for the rest of the transition period. In the 1956 season he could be used again from the start and played 25 of the 26 point games. With his eight goals he was again one of the most successful goal scorers of his team. In 1957 Seifert completed all 26 point games, but switched from attacking to the position of the right runner during the season . As a result, he came only to two point game goals. At the age of 31 Seifert started his last league season in 1958. He started again as a midfielder, but also played several games as a striker again. In the last third of the season he was only used irregularly in the major league and so came only to 20 stakes. After he ended his senior league career at the end of the season at the age of 31, he was able to look back on four seasons of first division football, in which 98 point games played and scored 24 goals.

coach

Immediately after his withdrawal from the league in 1958 Seifert began studying coaching at the Leipzig Sports University DHfK . In addition, he played as a recreational footballer for the fourth-class district division Rotation 1950 Leipzig . Seifert received his first coaching position in 1960 at SC Turbine Erfurt . He took over the team relegated to the second-rate GDR league and immediately led them back to the top division. With her he reached eighth place as the best place in the 1962/63 season (the GDR football had returned to the summer-spring game rhythm in 1961). When SC Turbine had to relegate again a year later, Seifert had to leave his coaching position and was transferred to SG Dynamo Erfurt , which played in the now third-class district league. He stayed there until the end of the 1966/67 season and then moved to the GDR league team Motor Weimar . After just one year, the Weimar team rose to the district league after they had previously spent six seasons in the GDR league. When the resurgence was missed in 1969, Seifert had to leave the field in Weimar as well. Seifert's next coaching station was from 1969/70 the BSG Wismut Gera , where after relegation to the league in 1967 they still hoped for promotion. When Seifert had not fulfilled his hopes after finishing second in 1970 and fifth in 1971, his coaching work in Gera was ended. Between 1971 and 1973 Seifert trained the district league team Aufbau Erfurt, after which he no longer appeared in national football.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1954–1971. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 412.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 330.

Web links

• Wolfgang Seifert in the database of weltfussball.de