Udo Schmuck

Udo Schmuck ( 1980)

Udo Schmuck ( born October 29, 1952 in Frankenthal, Saxony ) is a former German football player, GDR national team, four-time East German champion and two-time East German cup winner.

Football career

Soccer player

Jewelry began his career as a football player at the SG Frankenthal and in 1969 in the junior team of SG Dynamo Dresden, with whom he played as a defender in the junior league. In the summer of 1970, he was included in the squad of the GDR national junior team and denied on September 17, 1970, his first junior international game. In the 4-1 win in Finland he had been used as a left defender. Until 1971, he played a total of 16 matches with the youth team. With 19 years of 1.81 m large jewelry made ​​his debut in the GDR Oberliga. On 4 March 1972 18th match day, he was in the encounter Dynamo Dresden - Hallescher FC ( 6:1) off the bench in the 74th minute. In the 1972/73 season he was with Dynamo for the first time East German champion, had, however, contributed only six point stakes so. In March 1973, he was first employed in a junior international match. With a total of 42 missions to 1984 was jewelry Most games the junior national team. He was only in the 1973/74 season, in which he was employed in 19 of the 26 discharged Oberliga - point games to regular for Dynamo Dresden. From then on, he was the standard Vorstopper Dresdner. In the seasons 1975/76, 1976/77 and 1977/78 he won his GDR championships two to four, in 1977 and 1982, he was in the winning team of the East German Cup final.

On October 27, 1976 denied jewelry his first cap for the senior team. In the game Bulgaria - DDR ( 0:4 ), he was employed as a sweeper. Against the competitors Hans -Jürgen Dörner and Conrad, however, he could not prevail, so that he only came to a total of seven A- international matches until 1981. Among them were the only two World Cup qualifier against Turkey (17 November 1976), and Poland (2 May 1981) is of particular importance. His only goal in a senior international game he scored the 2-2 on 2 April 1980 against Romania.

His last league season played jewelery 1984/85, in which it was only used in five league matches. While he played four games in the first round by fully on his pre- Opper position, he was in his farewell match on 1 June 1985 in the encounter Dynamo Dresden - FC Carl Zeiss Jena sent ( 3-1 ) in the 82nd minute for the last time on the field. It was his 236th league game after about 13 seasons -long career in which he scored even 33 points Goals. During this time ( 2 goals), he was also used in 46 European games.

Achievements

• GDR Champion: 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978
• GDR Cup Winners: 1977, 1982
• Most games of DDR junior national team ( 42 inserts)

Coach

Jewelry had in 1981 obtained his diploma as a sports teacher, so he was taken after his career as a football player in the coaching staff of Dynamo Dresden. For the 1986/87 season he was instructor of the second team of Dynamo, who played in the second-rate DDR -Liga. On 1 July 1988, he was head coach of Serie A climber Sachsenring Zwickau, but increased again after one year from the DDR -Liga. In 1991 he succeeded to the successor club FSV Zwickau promotion to the third class at this time Oberliga Nordost. Although the FSV won in the first round 16 of the 20 point games, jewelry was replaced on 1 January 1991 by Gerd Harmful. Apart from a brief interlude again at Dynamo Dresden, when he was head coach from 16 April to 22 September 1996 trained jewelry in the subsequent period only unterklassige teams. After working in Meissen and Pulsnitz he took over in 1999 the fourth division Oberliga Bischofswerdaer FV. After the club was relegated in 2001, jewelry was dismissed. With the SV Fortuna Furth in Chemnitz- Glösa he made in 2005 to move up to the sechstklassige division and took over in 2006 after the merger of the two football clubs Chemnitz SV Fortuna Furth Glösa and VfB Fortuna Chemnitz Chemnitz to VfB the first men's team. He then moved for the duration of the 2007/ 08 to 1968 in BSV Sebnitz and reached him in fifth place in the national league Saxony.

Others

Udo jewelry is married to the track and field athlete and Olympic medalist Evelyn Kaufer. The couple has two sons, son Thomas is also football player.