Klaus Urbanczyk

Klaus " spells" Urbanczyk ( born June 4, 1940 in Halle / Saale) was soccer player in the GDR Oberliga, the highest East German football class. There he played for the Hall 's FC Chemistry ( HFC ) or its predecessor clubs and won the 1962 East German Football Cup. Urbanczyk is 34 -fold A-National player and was a member of the East German Olympic team that won the bronze medal in 1964. After his career as a football player Urbanczyk worked as a coach.

Playing career

Urbanczyk played throughout his footballer career in Halle. In 1948 he started in the children's team of turbine hall, went through all the youth teams and experienced this restructuring via the SC Chemie Halle - Leuna SC Chemie Halle and later as league players to Halle FC chemistry. In his youth he had first played as a striker.

1959 abolished the 19 -year-old football player with the SC Chemie Halle involved with seven missions, the first of the first East German league the rise of the East German upper house. His first Serie A Game of the 1.75 m wide Urbanczyk on March 20, 1960 against the bismuth SC Karl -Marx-Stadt (1:0) as a right midfielder. Already in its second league 1961/62 season he was a regular player of Halle. So he stood on 10 June 1962, the SC Chemistry in the final of the East German soccer cup. The chemists with Urbanczyk as right midfielder won against the SC Dynamo Berlin 3-1. This cup victory remained Urbanczyks only title as a club player.

This season, he also launched his international career already. After 1961 two matches contested in June and September with the junior national team, he was born on December 10, 1961 at the international between Morocco - DDR ( 2-0) his first appearance in the senior team. There he played at right-back, the position, and later influenced his career in both the national as well as at the club. As with the SC chemistry, Urbanczyk sat in the national team immediately as a regular player through and denied by its first use until 1963 all of the following twelve internationals. This brought him in 1963 at a trainer survey by the newspaper Deutsches Sport echo the award for best right-back of the season 1962/63 a.

In the summer of 1963, Urbanczyk was included in the squad of football Olympic team of the GDR. With it, he played in all seven qualifiers, with which for the Olympic football tournament in 1964 qualified the GDR in Tokyo. There he completed all the games until the semi-finals. When 1:2 against Czechoslovakia Urbanczyk suffered in a collision with his own goalkeeper Heinsch a serious knee injury, so he could not be used in the small final for the bronze medal. The East German team won the medal with a 3-1 victory over Egypt, and coach Soos interspersed that Urbanczyk was handed the medal by his personal representative Peter rock at him despite his absence. Also during the Olympic Qualifying 1967/68 denied Urbanczyk another five games with the Olympic team for which he played a total of 17 official international games.

1964 Klaus Urbanczyk was elected East German Sportsman of the Year - the only time that a football player in the singles competition received this award. He was also in 1964 in the GDR Footballer of the Year. In the same year he was also awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit. He was one of the few premier league players that the "sliding tackle ," fair to separate the opponent from the ball, perfectly controlled. Because of his injury Urbanczyk could not a year playing football and so was also missing his Halle club during re- promotion battle after relegation in 1964. Indoor managed an immediate return to the Oberliga, and Urbanczyk returned on matchday 14 of the 1965/66 season back in the league back. In the following seasons, he was fully operational again, 1966/67 and 1967/68 he played all league games. In the fall of 1966, he also returned to the national team. The introduction of the 4-2 -4- football system Urbanczyk was now also used variable in defense both in the selection and in the club, but returned again and again back to the defender side.

In 1971, Urbanczyk again in positive headlines when he stayed with the team chemistry of HFC for the UEFA Cup final in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Urbanczyk rescued from a hotel major fire several people from the flames and was seriously injured. Thus he fell back several weeks and also was then no longer to his old playing strength back. After he had completed his last and 34th international game in a 3-1 away win against Egypt on 19 December 1969 was also the 1971/72 season his last appearance in the GDR Oberliga. Due to his injury of Eindhoven, he was only in 15 point games with. His last league match took place on 21 May 1972. In the encounter of the last season game day HFC - 1.FC Union Berlin (5:1) Urbanczyk stood again as a defender in the Halle team. From 1960 to 1972 he had thus denied 250 point league games and scored twelve goals in the process. In addition, Urbanczyk was used in all three Euro cup matches of 1962 and 1971.

A trainer

Urbanczyk had already purchased the sports teacher diploma during his time as a football player. This made the Halle FC chemistry advantage and put Urbanczyk for 1973/74 season as coach of the first men team squad after they had previously been relegated to the second-rate DDR -Liga. Urbanczyk it with great superiority attributed the team right back into the league succeeded. The following league season 1974/75 was not as low, Hall took refuge in eleventh place only just before re- descend, and Urbanczyk left at the end of the season the HFC.

This was followed by a one-year commitment to the Oberliga FC Rot -Weiß Erfurt as assistant coach of Gerhard Bäßler. At the beginning of the season 1976/77 took over Urbanczyk at the 1 FC Magdeburg, the Office of the responsible coach for the league team. With him he achieved both 1977 and 1978, the runner-up, and came in the UEFA Cup 1977/78 to the quarter-finals. 1978 and 1979 led Urbanczyk 1.FC Magdeburg for DDR Cup win. When but after further success no longer einstellten and the Magdeburg came after the 20th matchday of the 1981/82 season in danger of forfeiting a place in the UEFA Cup competition, Urbanczyk was dismissed by the FCM.

Then Urbanczyk returned to Halle FC and took over in the summer of 1982, the league team. Again he could stay only two years, because after relegation in 1984 had Urbanczyk the HFC leave unsuccessfully for the second time. It was his last involvement in the DDR - Oberliga. After a year as a trainer in the GDR division chemistry Wolfen, with whom he also descended in 1985, he was appointed at the training center in Halle- Neustadt, which he held until 1990.

Having had taken on the territory of the former GDR, the German Football Association 1990 football game operation, was Urbanczyk country's youth coach at the Football Association of Saxony- Anhalt. When the Halle FC in 1992 from the 2nd Bundesliga relegation, Urbanczyk took over for the third time as coach at HFC. In the following years the club was economically driven almost to ruin, numerous players turned their backs. This situation left Urbanczyk 1994 HFC free will and graduated in the summer of 1994, the FSV Lok Altmark Stendal. Stendal had qualified for the newly established Regional Northeast and Urbanczyk secured the team in their first Regional season with 16th place in the league. In the 1995/96 season Urbanczyks team initially caused the DFB Cup sensation. The third division threw one after the higher-class teams from VfL Wolfsburg, Hertha BSC and the SV Waldhof Mannheim from the competition and so reached the quarterfinals. There Stendal difference on penalties ( 4:5 ) against the Bundesliga side Bayer 04 Leverkusen from. The Regional - season 1995/96 concluded Lok Altmark among 18 teams with eighth place from. Then Urbanczyk finished his work as a trainer in the higher-class football. Urbanczyk has since worked as chief scout of the Halle FC.

Achievements

  • As a player 1962 East German cup winner
  • 1964 Bronze medal at the Olympic Games
  • 1964 East German Sportsman of the Year
  • 1964 East German Footballer of the Year
  • 1971 Championship third in the GDR Oberliga
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