Martin Trocha
Martin Trocha ( born December 24, 1957 in Bytom ) was soccer player in the DDR - Oberliga and eight-time football player for the GDR.
Sports career
1974 Martin moved Trochas family of Polish Bytom in the GDR and settled in Jena, Thuringia. The then 17 - year-old Martin had previously played as a junior player at the Polish first division Szombierki Bytom football and signed up after moving the current DDR runner-up FC Carl Zeiss Jena. There, too, played the 1.78 m large, later -budgetary striker, first in the junior level before he came to his first appearance in the league team in 1975. Previously, he had already become youth international and incidentally had served an apprenticeship as a glass of skilled workers.
His most successful year in Jena had Trocha 1980. Having been already used in the international arena in seven junior and 17 junior internationals, he stood on 7 May 1980, on the first time in the senior team of the GDR. In the match against the Soviet Union, he worked as a right striker for 58 minutes in a 2-2 draw. Ten days later, on 17 May 1980, Trocha was in the final of the East German Football Cup and won with his team 3-1 over FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt. In the subsequent European Cup competition the Cup Winners Trocha had indeed with in four games, but was not used in the final game against Dinamo Tbilisi, Jena lost with 1:2. His most successful of the eight A- international matches played Trocha on November 11, 1980 in Halle. In the match against Hungary, he shot the GDR team lead and was so instrumental in the 2-0 success.
After Trocha had completed 128 point league games for FC Carl Zeiss Jena and scored 20 goals in the process, he was 26 -year-old put in the playing in the second-rate DDR - League 2nd team of the club in 1984. Even in the current season 1984/85 changed Trocha then organized for a few months to DDR -division club bismuth Gera and then Sachsenring Zwickau, with his team, he still returned in the same season in the league. However, the league 1985/86 season was a success for either Sachsenring nor Trocha. Trocha contested only 12 of the 26 point games, and at the end of the season the Zwickau rose again in the second division.
The now been converted into the midfield Trocha was still playing the DDR League 1986/87 season for Sachsenring Zwickau, then he signed off for the league promoted Hallescher FC chemistry. In his first season in Halle, he was employed in 19 league matches and scored three goals. 1988/89 Trocha denied his last league season. After he had again denied 15 point games without scoring, he joined at the age of 31 years from the high-performance sports and gambling in the third-class district league Gera BSG joined Jena glass works, where he finally ended his footballing career final. He settled afterwards in Pforzheim down and began working in a tool company.