Johannes Matzen
John Matzen ( born February 13, 1925) is a former football player who was active in the 1940s to 1958. He has won two National Football Player of the GDR.
The first team of John Matzen was the work of a sports club TSV 1888 State Railroad in the northwestern Brandenburg town of Wittenberg. After the Second World War Matzen played until 1949 when the sports community Wittenberg -south. Then he went to the sports community people police Potsdam, where he met his future team-mate Herbert Schoen and Günter Schröter. Together with them, he was invited in the summer of 1950 along with 40 other players from the People's Police Communities on a scholarship course for the future Central Sports Community Sports Association Dynamo Dresden. All three have been included in the squad for the new team, which took the place of the defunct sports community Dresden- Friedrichstadt with the start of the Championship season 1950/51 in the highest DDR - Oberliga football class.
The SG People's Police Dresden quickly became a Spitzenelf that already captured 4th place in the first year of its existence, and a year later was DDR runner-up. On September 14, 1952 already the first title win was celebrated. 3-0 victory in the final of the East German Cup on unit Pankow brought Left Wing Matzen Dresdner already in the fifth minute lead. A week later Matzen stood in the GDR national team that played their first official international match on 21 September 1952. The match was lost in Warsaw with 0:3. The season 1952/53, was completed after a 3-2 victory in the decider against bismuth Aue by winning the East championship. Herbert Matzen had been used in all the championship games and had ten of the 54 goals his team scores. In the following season included the Dresdner People's Police, now under the name Dynamo occurring, the top league in 1954 and finished in third place. At the beginning of the season 1954/55 he was appointed again in the national team and played on September 26, 1954 again against Poland but also his second last match. Also this encounter, this time in Rostock, was lost with 0:1.
In the autumn of the same year, the central sports club SC Dynamo Berlin Dynamo sports club founded in the wake of education in the GDR. Play a strong football team should be divided in Berlin As with most other sports clubs. Since this was not present in Berlin, the SV Dynamo decided to relocate the team of Dynamo Dresden to Berlin. This happened in the middle of the championship round, within one week attracted Dresdner Dynamos around and came 12th Round on 21 November 1954 as SC Dynamo Berlin. John Matzen had completed 139 league games for Dresden up to this point. The Berlin time gave him no further successes. The relocated team reached at the end of 1955 season only the 7th place and were relegated a year later than next to last, even in the second division. After the immediate rise Matzen still played one season in the big leagues, then took 33 - year departure from power football. For the SC Dynamo Berlin, from whose football team later the BFC Dynamo was born, he had again denied 70 league games, so he came to a total of 209 championship game in the highest DDR game class in his career. He scored 26 goals for 50 Dresden and Berlin.