Wolfgang Wruck (soccer player, April 1944)

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Wolfgang Wruck
Wolfgang Wruck 1968.gif
Wolfgang Wruck (1968)
Personnel
Surname Wolfgang Wruck
birthday April 8, 1944
date of death 5th September 2014
Place of death BerlinGermany
position Libero
Juniors
Years station
BSG Rotation Prenzlauer Berg
1959-1962 TSC Oberschöneweide
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1962-1963 TSC Oberschöneweide 1 0(0)
1963-1966 TSC Berlin 86 0(4)
1966-1974 1. FC Union Berlin 188 (11)
1974-1977 BSG Bergmann-Borsig Berlin
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1961–1962 DDR (Juniors) 5 0(0)
1967 GDR (youngsters) 2 0(1)
1967-1968 GDR (Olympia) 6 0(0)
1967-1968 GDR 6 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Wolfgang Wruck , nicknamed "Ate" (* 8. April 1944 ; † 5. September 2014 in Berlin ) was a football player of the GDR . For 1. FC Union Berlin he played in the GDR league and won the GDR soccer cup with him in 1968 . In the national soccer team of the GDR , he completed six international matches.

Life

Career as a soccer player

Club career

Wruck began his football career with the Berlin company sports club Rotation Prenzlauer Berg and went from there in 1959 to TSC Oberschöneweide , the successor club of SC Union Oberschöneweide . In 1962, at the age of 18, he made his debut in the Oberschöneweider first team . With her he achieved promotion to the second-rate GDR league in the same year . In the following years Wruck took part in the restructuring of his club. In 1963, TSC Oberschöneweide was integrated into TSC Berlin , before the football section founded 1. FC Union Berlin on January 20, 1966 . At the end of the 1965/1966 season, Wruck and the Unioners made it to the top division of the GDR, the league .

The 1.84 m tall Libero , who was temporarily also the team captain of the "Iron" , experienced his greatest sporting successes in the next few years. A total of six seasons, in which he completed 135 point games, he belonged with Union of the league and in 1971 reached a fifth place. He achieved his greatest success on June 9, 1968, when he surprisingly won the GDR soccer cup with the Union team against the favorite FC Carl Zeiss Jena with a 2-1 victory .

In 1974, a knee injury forced him to end his career as a top athlete. Wruck played his last league game for the Unioner on March 17, 1974, in the GDR league game against SG Dynamo Fürstenwalde (8: 1). Despite his knee damage, he still played for the Berlin BSG Bergmann-Borsig Berlin for the next three years , with which he was promoted to the third-class Berlin district league in the first season in 1975 and to the GDR league at the end of his active career in 1977.

Career as a national player

During his active time, Wruck made several appearances in various selection teams in the GDR. As early as 1961 and 1962, he ran five times for the GDR junior national team (U-18). But it wasn't until 1967 that his international career really started. First he came in March 1967 to his first of a total of two youth international games (in which he scored a goal). In the same month he also made his debut for the Olympic selection , with the 1967/1968 played all six qualifying games for the 1968 Olympic Games . However, qualification was missed in the crucial games against the eventual silver medalist Bulgaria .

In 1967, Wruck also played on September 13 in the 0-1 defeat against the Netherlands in the qualifying game for the European Football Championship in 1968, his first appearance in the senior national team of the GDR . But the GDR also missed this qualification. Only in the insignificant last group game against the already qualified Hungarians Wruck was used again. There followed two games against Romania with the Olympic selection, which are also rated as A-stakes at the same time. He played his last international match on October 19, 1968 in the encounter between Poland and GDR (1-1). In all games he was on the position of the central defender.

Career based on player time

After the end of his playing career, Wruck was a qualified pedagogue, among other things, a trainer in the district training center Pankow and trained from 1981 the age group 13 at his former club Union Berlin. In 2005 he was elected chairman of the honorary council of the "Iron".
Wruck died on September 5, 2014 after a long illness in the hospital in Berlin-Köpenick .

Private

His son Torsten Wruck also became a footballer and also played for Union in the 1990/1991 season. After that he was u. a. works for FC 08 Homburg and 1. FC Saarbrücken . His brother Horst Wruck was active in the GDR Oberliga for Vorwärts Berlin (or later Vorwärts Frankfurt) and in 1969 played an international match for the GDR.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. 1. FC Union mourns the loss of Wolfgang Wruck , club homepage of 1. FC Union Berlin from September 8, 2014