Matthias Müller (footballer)

Matthias Müller ( born October 18, 1954 in Dresden ) is a retired German football player (DDR ).

Career

Müller began at Dresdner BSG Empor tobacco and came across the FSV Lok Dresden 1969 SG Dynamo Dresden. Played there from 1973 to 1981 as a full-back in the league team. With this team he was three times GDR football champion and once GDR Cup winners. He played for Dynamo 89 games in the DDR - Oberliga and was used in 22 European games, but he scored eleven league goals as a defender and a goal in the European Cup.

His football skills brought Müller early vocations to the junior national team of the GDR. Here it was used 15 times, and belonged to the team that was in 1973 in the final of the UEFA Youth Tournament ( 2:3 against England). It was followed by four inserts in the junior national team before the game against East Germany, the Soviet Union ( in Rostock 2:2 ), he played his first international match on 7 May 1980. This was followed by a further three international appearances and nine games with the East German Olympic team, with Müller in Moscow in 1980 won the silver medal.

On January 24 1981 Matthias Mueller was arrested just before departure of the East German national team to a South American tour along with his teammates Dresdner Gerd Weber and Peter Kotte at the airport Berlin- Schönefeld from the East German state security service. The three players were accused of fleeing the republic. While Weber was sentenced to a prison term, Kotte and Müller escaped unpunished. Müller was, however, excluded as Kotte from the SG Dynamo Dresden and the GDR Football Association ( DFV) lifetime blocked for the league and the second-rate DDR -Liga.

From the 1981/82 season played Müller at unterklassigen teams like TSG Meissen (until 1983 ), Progress Neustadt (1983 /86), activist Brieske Senftenberg (1986 /89) and TSG Elsterwerda. 1990 ended his active career Müller at Tennis Borussia Berlin.

Matthias Müller later worked as a coach. After he had last looked after the SV Wesenitztal, he took over the 2008/09 season as coach at Bishop FV.

Achievements

• Olympic silver in 1980 in Moscow
• 4 A- international matches for the GDR national team
• 7 B- caps for the GDR national team
• 18 junior internationals for East Germany
• 24 EC- inserts ( 4 goals),
• 3x DDR Champion
• 2x fdgb Cup Winner
• 89 DDR - Oberliga games (11 goals)

International appearances

• National football team (DDR )
• GDR citizens
• German
• Olympian (DDR )
• Athletes (Dresden)
• Person (Dynamo Dresden)
• Born in 1954
• Man