Siegmar Wätzlich

(1974)

Sigmar Wätzlich ( born November 16, 1947 in Rammenau ) is a former football player from the GDR. The defender of Dynamo Dresden ran in 24 appearances for the East German national team. He won at the 1972 Olympic Games with the Olympic team bronze medal and participated in the World Cup 1974.

Football career

League players

Wätzlich comes from a family butcher and learned this profession also. He started in Rammenau with football and remained the local SG Rammenau even after its delegation to Dynamo Dresden connected. As early as 1967 he worked there as a volunteer instructor.

" Wätzer " in 1965 came to Dynamo Dresden and denied there 1967-1975 usually left-back 139 point games in the DDR - Oberliga. He scored ten goals. Recurrent injuries prevented a better record. With almost 19 years, he was included in the squad of the league team for 1967/68 season for the first time. He should replace the long -term injury Steffen Engelmohr and was used first Oberliga Gameday at. First playing as a central defender, he conquered immediately a regular place and completed all 26 games of the season. At the end of the season Dynamo were relegated from the top league, and Wätzlich spent a year in the second division. Due to injury, he could only with 17 inserts contribute to the chances of promotion. In the new premier league season 1969/70 he came first from Round 10 again used, but was afterwards settled at left-back in the Dynamo team. 1970/71 was for Dynamo Dresden to success season by winning the championship and the East German Football Cup. Wätzlich however, was involved in the championship with only six games and played in the final on June 2, 1971 in a 2-1 victory over the BFC Dynamo, only 14 minutes into extra time. In the following seasons Wätzlich was spared serious injury and was a fixture on the left side of defense. In 1973, he won his second championship, to which he had contributed with 20 points stakes. His last league season, he completed 1975/76. In the first round he could still deny ten -point games at left-back, then a meniscus injury forced him to end his sporting career. His last league game was played with the match 1.FC Lok Leipzig on 20 December 1975 - instead of Dynamo Dresden ( 0-2). Since Dynamo again won the championship end of the season, this crowned Wätzlichs career with the third title.

International assignments

Due to the good finishes in the league denied Dynamo Dresden during the active period of Wätzlich 26 games in the different European Cup competitions. His first of 17 European games Wätzlich completed on 20 September 1967 at the Fairs Cup match Dynamo Dresden - Glasgow Rangers (1-1). Among the highlights of his European Cup career against Liverpool (0-1), and the two games against Bayern Munich in Champion Clubs' Cup in 1973/74 with Wätzlichs include the quarter-final match in the UEFA Cup on 21 March 1973 in Dresden, the only EC- goal in 3:3 in the first leg.

During his solid Oberliga 1971/72 season Wätzlich was appointed to the cadre of the GDR national team, which was preparing for the Olympic finals tournament in the Federal Republic in 1972. Wätzlich denied the first three matches of the tournament, where the encounter DDR - Ghana on August 28, 1972 in Munich ( 4-0) was his first international match. The GDR closed the tournament by winning the bronze medal from. Although Wätzlich had also participated only in the first qualifying match for the 1974 World Cup in Germany ( German Democratic Republic - Finland 5:0 ), he was also nominated for the first and only World Cup finals 1974, the GDR team. Wätzlich played in all three games of the first final round and the first game of the second final round against Brazil. After he was injured and had to fly home. Previously, he had been with the legendary 1-0 victory over the GDR to the Federal Republic of the party. Wätzlich belonged to the end of his football career in 1975 for the national squad. His last and 24th international game he played in the 1-2 defeat in Reykjavik at the European Championship qualifier against Iceland. In the national squad Wätzlich had played on his regular position of left-back.

Achievements

• GDR Champion 1971, 1973, 1976
• East German Cup winner 1971
• Bronze medal at the 1972 Olympics
• Participation in the Football World Cup 1974

After the active football sports

In 1977, Wätzlich together with his wife Ingrid, whom he had married in 1973 and with whom he has two children in his hometown Rammenau the restaurant his parents. In the early 1990s he was diagnosed with the liver and kidneys and had five years of dialysis. In 1998 he had to undergo at the Jena University Hospital a double organ transplant. After his recovery, he trained many years the county league 's team of the local SV 1910 Edelweiss Rammenau.