Heinz Murach
Heinz Murach ( born April 7, 1926 in Gelsenkirchen, † 2007) was a German football coach. The late 1960s and early 1970s, he worked in the Bundesliga with Borussia Dortmund and Red -Weiß Oberhausen. In the later 1970s he worked with SpVgg Erkenschwick and Westfalia Herne in the Second Bundesliga. In 1971, he led Eintracht Gelsenkirchen for best placement of the club's history.
Career
The trained school teacher Heinz Murach began his career in football in August 1953 as coach of Lower Saxony Football Association. As of March 1956, he continued his work in football and athletics federation Westphalia, where he remained until 1959. He was coach of the soccer association Lower Rhine when he was hired in 1966 by his time winner in the European Cup winners Borussia Dortmund as the successor of poached from 1 FC Köln Willi Multhaup. In its day, excellent front Borussia - including Lothar Emmerich, Sigi hero and Reinhard " Stan" Libuda by storm - was a championship contender, but started very weak in the season and different also from the cup competitions very soon from. In the end it was enough but still finished third in the Bundesliga.
Before the following season Murach said in the coach survey: "You keep me quiet for immodest. My tip is Dortmund "The Bundesliga season began with a strong start, but soon the black and yellow were strongly of. Halftime Borussia were only placed ten. Yet in January 1968 announced Murach not to renew his expiring at the end of season contract. Early April BVB broke up in the Bundesliga after two consecutive defeats with only 0-0 at home by the TSV 1860 Munich. He led the Borussia even with a 2-1 home victory over Hertha BSC semi-finals of the DFB Cup, but in the subsequent Easter Tournament in Vienna Borussia embarrassed himself again and conceded two defeats. Thereupon Murach resigned and made way for the already committed as his successor Oswald peacock. At the end of the season was Borussia 14.
He then coached the third division Eintracht Gelsenkirchen, where he suffered relegation to the third division in the first year. This was mainly point deductions for the use of an unauthorized player. After the immediate revival he led the team in 1971 to an excellent fifth place - the best finish in club history - and the following year to a safe mid-table.
Round 21 of the 1972/73 season he was bound by the Bundesliga taillight red -Weiss Oberhausen and practiced as coach there initially in addition to his duties at Eintracht Gelsenkirchen. Murach was there to Günter Brocker and Friedhelm Kobluhn already the third coach of the season. Murach but could not prevent relegation, RWO was last. He remained in the following season for red -Weiss Oberhausen and led the club to second place in the Regionalliga West behind the SG Wattenscheid 09, which entitled to participate in the Bundesliga promotion round. There the Rhine countries were only third behind Tennis Borussia Berlin and FC Augsburg. In the financial RWO was partly so tense at that time that Murach once saw no other way to secure his salary as to obtain an attachment order.
At the beginning of the season 1974/75 he was obliged by second division club SpVgg Erkenschwick. The engagement lasted only until the 14th day - SpVgg was at the present time only two points from the relegation zone to 14th place away In November, he was replaced by his predecessor Fritz Langner. His last major engagement was followed in the 1975/76 season when he was out of Westfalia Herne, as a second Bundesliga club committed. In the first season he led the team to tenth place. In the following season he was replaced just after the start of the second half of Ivica Horvat, when Westfalia was only two points away from the relegation zone in 15th place. Horvat led the team finally on a secure eleventh place.
Heinz Murach was a professional teacher at the Grillo -Gymnasium in Gelsenkirchen, where he lived after his retirement.