Wolfgang Seguin
Wolfgang " Paule " Seguin ( born September 14, 1945 in Burg, near Magdeburg ) was soccer player in the DDR - Oberliga, the highest East German football class, and played there for the SC structure / 1 FC Magdeburg. He was three times GDR champion and won five times the GDR football trophy. In 1974, he stood in the FCM team that won the European Cup Winners' Cup. In the senior team, he completed 21 Matches. With the Olympic team in 1972, he won the bronze medal.
The SC structure and 1.FC Magdeburg
Seguin is the Magdeburg club owned by two not be beat for records: He completed 380 operations, the most games in the DDR Oberliga for Magdeburg and was used 1971-1979 without interruption in 219 league games.
Had begun Seguins football career in 1953 at the BSG unit in his hometown of Burg, near Magdeburg. Here he already earned his nickname as a student " Paule " because he constantly stroked around in his free time near the Burger goalkeeper named Paule. In the junior team of BSG unit Seguin showed as a striker consistent and good, and so caused the center of gravity club in the region, the SC structure Magdeburg, in the summer of 1963, the change to Magdeburg league team. He was 18 years old on 9 February 1964 league game point SC Construction - SC Turbine Erfurt ( 2:2 ) as the right winger for the first time. After two games in the season 1963/64, to Seguin had captured a year later with 17 inserts a regular place in the attack formation of the SC structure. The first Cup victory of Magdeburg on 13 June 1964 he was not yet there. The following still winning cup finals in 1965, 1969, 1973, 1978 and 1979, however, took place with Seguin. The Magdeburg Cup win of 1964 helped Seguin also to his first European game, he in the second leg of the first round of the Cup Winners' Cup with Galatasaray (1-1) denied on September 17, 1964.
In his illustrious career Seguin had a low point in the season 1965/66. At the end of the season after the spin-off of the football section of the newly formed SC Setup 1 FC Magdeburg was relegated to the second-rate DDR -Liga. With 23 of 30 point games Seguin was instrumental in the immediate revival and reached as early as the following 1967/68 season with a league 3rd place his best position to which he had contributed with 19 point games and four goals even crucial. In 1968/69 graduated from Seguin for the first time all 26 league matches and scored points with six goals in addition to the season 1972/73 its most league matches. 1972 Seguin was first football champions. He had again passed all 26 point games and thus started his series of continuous operations until December 1, 1979. During this time, the 1.78 m wide Seguin joined the attack in the midfield.
Up to and including the 1972/73 season Seguin had also contested 14 of the 16 European matches of Magdeburg. After the Cup win of 1973, the first FC Magdeburg launched its most successful European campaign, which he crowned with winning the Cup with a 2-0 victory over AC Milan. Seguin was in all the latest games here and made the finals on May 8, 1974 he scored the 2-0 success perfectly. With his last European Cup match on 22 October 1980 at the UEFA Cup final against AC Torino (1:3) Seguin has completed a total of 57 European Cup games, another FCM record, which previously could not be surpassed.
After his series was interrupted by 219 point league games in 1979, where he was two more times GDR champion, denied Seguin 1980/81 his last league season for the FCM, in which he came again in 14 point games used. In addition to his 380 league games point he came in 23 East German league games, 69 national and 57 European Cup games used, so add up his duty games on 529 missions. In these games, he scored a total 64 goals. Following his Oberliga time Seguin was from 1981 to 1986 player-manager of the fourth-rate BSG Motor Mitte Magdeburg, which he helped to promotion to the County League in 1982.
International selection player
His first international match played Seguin on October 6, 1963 with the Junior National Team along with his teammate Manfred Zapf and with his later appearance in the senior national team Jürgen Croy, Harald Irmscher, Horst Wruck and Rainer Schlutter. Overall, Seguin was four times used in the junior national team. This was followed 1965-1969 in six games with the junior national team. At his first senior international Seguin came on 27 May 1972 in the encounter DDR - Uruguay ( 1-0). In September of the same year Seguin played four games with the East German Olympic team in the final tournament of the Olympic Games in Munich. He was also the small final, in which the GDR together with the Soviet Union after a 2-2 won the bronze medal. With the senior team Seguin played a total of 21 games. He belonged to the squad of the East German national team at the World Cup in 1974 and was used in the preliminary round match against Chile. His last international match took place on September 3, 1975 in Moscow against the Soviet Union instead of (0-0 ). From these games, Seguin won 13 matches, five times he played in a draw, and only three times he was a loser from the square. Since it was used as a midfielder, he was no scoring.
Outside of the playing field
Even during his playing days Seguin completed a degree in mechanical engineering. After ending his career as an active football player Seguin was site manager at Magdeburg Heinrich Germer Stadium. After German reunification, Seguin settled in Stendal. To continue to be secured professionally, he graduated in Lower Saxony retraining as a building cleaner and opened later in Magdeburg, a building and window cleaning company that he built into a thriving company with a three-digit number of employees. With his company sponsored Seguin long time 1.FC Magdeburg, ended his engagement but when he was not awarded the contract for the cleaning works for the new stadium in Magdeburg. Nevertheless, he remained the FCM still connected, in 2009 he was a member of the Supervisory Board.