Wolfgang Wruck (soccer player, April 1944)
| Wolfgang Wruck | ||
 Wolfgang Wruck (1968)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Wolfgang Wruck | |
| birthday | April 8, 1944 | |
| date of death | 5th September 2014 | |
| Place of death | Berlin , Germany | |
| 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) |
| 1963-1966 | TSC Berlin | 86 (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) |
| 1967 | GDR (youngsters) | 2 (1) |
| 1967-1968 | GDR (Olympia) | 6 (0) |
| 1967-1968 | GDR | 6 (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
- Harald Tragmann, Harald Voss: The Union Statistics, A Club between East and West . 3. Edition. Harald Voß Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-935759-13-7 .
- Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 532.
- Michael Horn, Gottfried Weise : The great lexicon of GDR football. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-536-8 , p. 374.
Web links
- Wolfgang Wruck in the database of the German Football Association
- Wolfgang Wruck on immerunioner.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1. FC Union mourns the loss of Wolfgang Wruck , club homepage of 1. FC Union Berlin from September 8, 2014
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wruck, Wolfgang |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ate |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player, player of the GDR national soccer team |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1944 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th September 2014 |
| Place of death | Berlin |