Wolfgang Steinbach
| Wolfgang Steinbach | ||
 Steinbach 1980
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | September 21, 1954 | |
| place of birth | Schönebeck (Elbe) , GDR | |
| size | 166 cm | |
| position | midfield player | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1961-1968 | Chemistry Schönebeck | |
| 1968-1972 | 1. FC Magdeburg | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1971-1987 | 1. FC Magdeburg | 297 (66) |
| 1987-1989 | Motor Schönebeck | 45 (11) |
| 1989-1990 | 1. FC Magdeburg | 40 (9) |
| 1990-1994 | VfB Oldenburg | 104 (10) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1978-1985 | GDR | 28 (1) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1993 | VfB Oldenburg | |
| 1995-1999 | BV Cloppenburg | |
| 1999-2002 | VfB Oldenburg | |
| 2002-2007 | SV Wilhelmshaven | |
| 2007-2008 | Prussia Magdeburg | |
| 2009-2011 | SV Wilhelmshaven | |
| 2015-2018 | BV Essen | |
| 2019/20 | BV Cloppenburg | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Wolfgang "Maxe" Steinbach (born September 21, 1954 in Schönebeck (Elbe) ) is a former German soccer player and current soccer coach. He played from 1971 to June 1987 and again in the 1989/90 season at 1. FC Magdeburg in midfield. In 2006 he was voted “ Best FCM Player of All Time ” by the fans of 1. FC Magdeburg in a telephone vote.
Career
Wolfgang Steinbach started playing football in his hometown Schönebeck (Elbe) in 1961 at BSG Chemie Schönebeck . At the age of 14 he switched to the youth team at 1. FC Magdeburg .
Steinbach had his first appearance in the first men's team in the 1971/72 season . In the first championship season of the Magdeburg team, however, there was only one mission. Also in the 1973/74 season he was part of the championship squad with six appearances . The only 1.65 m tall Wolfgang Steinbach had his breakthrough in the 1974/75 season , when he scored 2 goals in 17 games and thus established himself in the regular team. Due to his good performance, Wolfgang Steinbach received his first appointment to the GDR national soccer team in 1978 . His appearance against Sweden was followed by 27 more games in the national team, in which he scored a goal. In 1980 Steinbach took part in the Summer Olympics in Moscow and won the silver medal with the GDR team. Wolfgang Steinbach was used in all games of the tournament and scored one goal. With his teammates he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze in the same year . He stayed with the Magdeburg team until 1987 and, in addition to the three championships, won four cups (1973, 1978, 1979, 1983). In 1987 Steinbach moved back to his hometown and joined the second division team Motor Schönebeck . Here he stayed for almost a year and a half. In November 1988 he went back to 1. FC Magdeburg. Overall, he was used in 433 competitive games of 1. FC Magdeburg, only Wolfgang Seguin and Manfred Zapf have played more games for FCM, scoring 97 goals. After reunification , Steinbach moved to VfB Oldenburg in the 2nd Bundesliga . In the three years to the end of his career, he scored 10 goals in 104 games.
After his active career, Steinbach took over a coaching position for the first time in 1993, that of VfB Oldenburg . From 1995 to 1999 he was the coach of BV Cloppenburg . From 1999 to 2002 he returned to the service of VfB Oldenburg, which separated from him when Steinbach failed to gain promotion to the Regionalliga Nord.
With SV Wilhelmshaven , which he coached over four years, he became champion in the Oberliga Nord in the 2005/06 season and was promoted to the Regionalliga Nord. On April 3, 2007, he was dismissed as a coach after a series of unsuccessful games. From July 1, 2007 to May 2008, he was the coach of the fifth division team Prussia Magdeburg . For the 2008/2009 season Steinbach was employed again at SV Wilhelmshaven. Initially as a game observer before he became team boss in September 2008. In the spring of 2009 he also took over the coaching position, which he gave up in June 2011 for health reasons. At the beginning of the 2014/15 season, Steinbach coached the Oldenburg district division BV Essen and in the very first season his team was promoted one league higher to the Weser-Ems regional league. At the end of the 2017/18 season he gave up the coaching post there. After a season of athletic retirement, Steinbach followed the call of his ex-club BV Cloppenburg at the end of June 2019 after coach Imke Wübbenhorst had left the club. However, the club had to file for bankruptcy after the end of the 2019/20 season.
Web links
- Wolfgang Steinbach in the database of the German Football Association
- Wolfgang Steinbach in the database of weltfussball.de
- Wolfgang Steinbach in the database of fussballdaten.de
- Wolfgang Steinbach in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
literature
- DSFS AG Nordost (ed.): GDR chronicle 1949–1991 GDR football in dates, facts and figures . tape 7 1984 / 85-1988 / 89 . Berlin 2009.
Individual evidence
- ^ Matthias Arnhold: Wolfgang Steinbach - International Appearances . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. October 1, 2003. Retrieved September 18, 2014.
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , August 22, 1980, p. 4
- ^ Matthias Arnhold: Wolfgang Steinbach - Matches and Goals in Oberliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. May 31, 2012. Retrieved September 18, 2014.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Steinbach, Wolfgang |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Steinbach, Maxe (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schönebeck (Elbe) |