Axel Wittke
Axel Wittke ( born March 25, 1960 in Oebisfelde ) was soccer player in the GDR Oberliga and the 2nd Bundesliga. With the 1 FC Magdeburg he was GDR Cup winners. He played for the German Democratic Republic in the Olympic team and the junior and junior national teams.
Football career
1 FC Magdeburg
Wittke came in 1968 by the BSG structure Boerde Magdeburg for student team of 1 FC Magdeburg and went through there the other youth teams. As a junior player, he was employed in four international matches of the junior national team of East Germany. For the 1978/79 season the FCM Wittke nominated for his first league squad, where he was provided as a midfielder. At his first appearance in Magdeburg's First Division team he came in the cup match with steel Thale on 14 October 1978. Afterwards, he had to wait sixteen months before he was first summoned in a league - point game. During this time he was employed in the junior league. Gameday On the 14th of the season 1979/80, 23 February 1980 he replaced in the encounter bismuth Aue - 1 FCM (0:0) non- deployable Klaus Decker as a right midfielder. This season ended with a total of ten league games Wittke. The breakthrough for regular players he managed until the 1982/83 season, in which he played 20 of the 26 league - point games. Previously, he had already completed three matches with the East German junior national team. On June 4, 1983, he celebrated the biggest success of his football career by winning the East German Football Cup. In the 4-0 win over FC Karl- Marx-Stadt, he scored the 2-0 scoreboard. Most of his season - point games played Wittke in the season 1984/85, as 23 times was used. In 1987, he starred in three qualifying games for football Olympic team of the GDR. At the end of the season 1987/88 stood to his credit 149 league games with 13 goals, plus 21 national cup games ( 3 goals ) and four inserts in the European Cup.
1 FC Union
In the summer of 1988 Wittke changed from 1 FC Magdeburg to league rivals 1.FC Union Berlin. Since the FCM but refused to release, Wittke was suspended for six months. Not until the 13th game day, December 3, 1988, he came to the meeting 1.FC Union - Dynamo Dresden (1:3) for the first time in the league team to use. Although he scored the intermediate 1:1, but then missed a penalty. During its first Union - season Wittke was used in a total of 14 league games point. Union ended the season relegated, so Wittke for a year had to play in the second-rate DDR -Liga. There, he played 23 of 34 league games, but missed at the end of the season 's re-emergence in the league.
Ironworks town, Jena and Leipzig
Wittke therefore joined at the beginning of the season 1990/91 the Eisenhüttenstädter FC steel that played in the league for a year. He came in 24 of the 26 league games for use, but could not prevent the Eisenhüttenstädter with Rank 9 failed to qualify for the 2nd Bundesliga. This took Wittke the occasion, after a year of leaving the EFC again and FC Carl Zeiss Jena to join, who had managed to qualify for the 2nd Bundesliga. Also in Jena Wittke immediately became a regular player and graduated from 1991 to 1994 in three seasons 100 second division games. 1994 rose from Jena in the third-class Regional and Wittke turned VfB Leipzig, who had managed to avoid relegation in the Bundesliga 2. From 1994 to 1996, he even came in two seasons, a total of 25 times in competitive matches is used, then finished Wittke in June 1996 his career as an athlete, after a month earlier suffered a broken fibula.
At the start of his football career Wittke had been trained as a mechanical engineer. However, after the end of his athletic career, he took on a job in the banking industry. Still in 2006 he played with in the football team of the People's Bank Saale valley, and since July 2008 he took over the training of gambling in the state Class 1 Suhler SV.