Joachim Streich

Joachim Streich 1978 Cup Winners

Joachim Streich ( born April 13, 1951 in Wismar, Mecklenburg ) was soccer player in the GDR and played in the highest league DDR Oberliga for FC Hansa Rostock and 1.FC Magdeburg. He is the owner of several not be beat for GDR Records: league - leading scorer with 229 goals, most capped player with 102 caps A-, A- National team record scorer with 55 goals.

Football career

Selected teams

Prank began with six years in the BSG structure Wismar, which merged in the TSG Wismar 1961. At sixteen, he went in 1967 on his own initiative without actually usual Delegierungsverfahren football focus of the region, the FC Hansa Rostock. There he first played in the junior league and was incorporated in 1968 as the East German Junior Champion in the squad of the GDR national junior team. His first junior international match played prank on August 9, 1968 in a junior tournament in Hungary against Cuba, which the GDR won 2-0. As right winger scored the 2-0 string. Until 1969, he completed 15 junior internationals. When UEFA Youth Tournament in 1969 occupied String with the GDR - choice 2nd place.

He was only 19 years old when he played his first game for the senior team. In Friendlies Iraq - DDR (1:1) on December 8, 1969, he came on in the second half for Jurgen saving water on the right side storm. Thereafter, however, he had to wait nearly two years for his next 'A' game, but then had a regular place in the national team safe. Meanwhile, he played six international matches with the National Selection. 1971/72 was one string to football Olympic team of the GDR. He was inducted into eight qualifying and final tournament, scoring six goals and won with the team the bronze medal of the Olympic Football Tournament 1972. 1974 stood Bowed with the senior team in the finals tournament of the World Cup. He played four matches and scored two goals, but lacked tactical reasons the historic 1-0 victory over the GDR to the Federal Republic (1-0 ). On September 12, 1984 prank was included in the club of "hundreds national team ." In international match England - East (1-0 ) at Wembley Stadium he came to his 100th in the GDR national team. His last 102 countries and Game of the String World Cup qualifier DDR - Yugoslavia (2:3) on October 20, 1984 Fifteen years later by the FIFA rules about international matches (1999) it was four games of the Olympic tournament in 1972 but revoked. so that string has denied only 98 internationals after FIFA version. However, the DFB is one of these games continue as official internationals.

DDR - Oberliga

FC Hansa Rostock

At the age of seventeen he was employed in the men's area, on 23 February 1969, he was in the DDR -Liga - point game against Energie Cottbus in the second team of FC Hansa. At the beginning of the season 1969/70 string was included in the squad of the league team of Hansa Rostock. After his first league game on August 23, 1969 Dynamo Dresden - FC Hansa (2:0), he played mostly as a right winger then all other league matches of the season, and all the games of Rostock in the Fairs Cup. With eight league goals, he was the top scorer of his team in his first league season. In the following years état ​​regular place was unchallenged for the seasons 1971/72 and 1972/73 he was now -budgetary funds striker, top scorer in each of the Rostock. His last season for FC Hansa he played 1974/75. His departure was spectacular, as he relegation from the top league of Rostock sealed with a missed penalty in the last league game of the season. As a national team wanted to prank not play second-rate, and he intended to join after 141 league games with 58 goals and 18 national and four European games for FC Hansa, FC Carl Zeiss Jena. However, this was the GDR's Football Association not to prank and presented with the alternative of remaining in Rostock or go to 1.FC Magdeburg.

1 FC Magdeburg

Although against his will and despite initial difficulties in the housing and job placement for his wife managed to trick the sporty transition in Magdeburg seamlessly. In his first Magdeburg Oberliga 1975/76 season he was with 13 hits along with saving water again top scorer of his team. In total, prank ten times the most goals for the FCM, 1977, 1979, 1981 and 1983, he was top scorer in the league. In the season 1978/79 the Centre Forward arrive on the 26th match day 10:2 against the BSG Chemie Bohlen six hits. 1978, 1979 and 1983 won String with 1 FC Magdeburg GDR football trophy. In the final game in 1983 against FC Karl- Marx-Stadt, he scored in a 4-0 victory two goals. In the years 1979 and 1983, he was named by the trade journal The New Football Week Player of the Year. String was fortunate enough to be never violated the longer term, therefore, it belonged to the end of his active career in any season of the tribe squad. He played in the attack formation of the FCM at all positions, but was mustered usually as a center forward. Upon retiring as a footballer in the summer of 1985, he still had 24 contested in the last season of 26 possible point games and was this time with 18 goals again become top scorer of Magdeburg. For the FCM prank played within ten years, 237 times in the league and had been summoned each in 38 games for the national and European Cup games. In the competitive games with the first team scored 216 goals prank.

Coach

Originally trained as switchgear fitter prank had completed a Diploma in Sports teacher during his playing days. Since the FCM had achieved in the last years before the disposal of string, apart from the Cup success in 1983, disappointing in the league results, the club management of the FCM String urged immediately after the end of his time to take over as coach in the league team. Rather reluctantly String eventually became the beginning of the 1985/86 season immediately after his resignation as head coach of the Active 1.FC Magdeburg. He held this post until the end of the 1989/90 season, but was unable to repeat the success of previous years times. Under his leadership, the FCM 1987/88 reached rank 7, the worst result since 1970 ( 8 ). Only in his last season 1989/90 he was able to successfully adopt the third place from Magdeburg.

As a first league coach of the GDR took blow at the turn of 1989 the opportunity to be a coach at a football club in the West. In the summer of 1990, before the reunification, he went to Brunswick, in the twin city of Magdeburg, where he took over as coach at second division Eintracht Braunschweig. After concord, however, was caught in the vicinity of the relegation zone by the end of the season, prank was released eleven games before the end of the season. In August 1991 he once again took the coaching job at the 1 FC Magdeburg. This played now after failing to qualify for one of the two national leagues in the Amateur League West. When it became clear that the FCM would not reach the 2nd Bundesliga again, prank was released prematurely again on 22 March 1992. Then acted String for several years as president of the SV Fortuna Magdeburg and tried in 1996/97 once more, but again without success, as coach of second division FSV Zwickau. After that string ended his football career final.

Life without football

After his less successful coaching career took a String activity in Ministry of Social Affairs of Saxony- Anhalt. Later he worked for a time for the sporting goods manufacturer Nike, then he got a job at a large shop in Magdeburg. The Kicker sports magazine hired him as a columnist.

Quotes

Eric Beatty, a columnist for the British magazine World Soccer 1982:

Jürgen Nöldner, Striker colleague at FC Vorwärts Berlin / Frankfurt, 1996:

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