Martin Skaba

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Martin Skaba
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Skaba during a match between ASK Vorwärts Berlin and SC Dynamo Berlin on 23 March 1958.
Personal information
Date of birth (1935-07-28) 28 July 1935 (age 88)
Place of birth Gleiwitz, Germany
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
1952-1954 BSG Motor Quedlinburg
1954-1956 SC DHfK Leipzig
1955-1956 SC Dynamo Berlin
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1956-1968 BFC Dynamo [lower-alpha 1] 255
International career
1958–1963 East Germany 8 (0)
Managerial career
1971-1974 BFC Dynamo II
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Martin Skaba (born 28 July 1935) is a German former footballer. [1] Skaba came to SC Dynamo Berlin as a 19-year old in 1956. He made his first match for the first team of SC Dynamo Berlin in the 1956 DDR-Oberliga. Skaba won the FDGB-Pokal with SC Dynamo Berlin in 1959. He ended his playing career in 1968. Skaba played in 255 league matches for SC Dynamo Berlin and BFC Dynamo. [2] He also played in eight matches for the East Germany national football team from 1958 to 1963. [3]

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Skaba continued as a trainer in BFC Dynamo after ending his playing career. He coached the reserve team of BFC Dynamo in the second tier DDR-Liga from 1971 to 1974. BFC Dynamo II under Skaba won the 1971-72 DDR-Liga Staffel B. [4] Skaba then served as the first assistant coach of Jürgen Bogs in the DDR-Oberliga. Skaba later went to Mozambique, where he trained local coaches. He continued as youth trainer in BFC Dynamo and FC Berlin after returning from Africa.

Notes

  1. Played for SC Dynamo Berlin until 1966. The football department of SC Dynamo Berlin was reorganized as football club BFC Dynamo on 15 January 1966.

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References

  1. "Martin Skaba". EU Football. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  2. "JUBILÄUMSKLUBS IN DER STATISTIK: WER SPIELTE UND TRAF AM MEISTEN?". dfb.de (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Deutscher Fußball-Bund e.V. 17 January 2016. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
  3. "Martin Skaba". National Football Teams. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  4. Burghause, Hans-Günther (25 April 1972). "Sieger der Staffel B: BFC Dynamo II: Dominierend!" (PDF). Die neue Fußballwoche (in German). Vol. 1972, no. 17. Berlin: DFV der DDR. p. 11. ISSN   0323-8407 . Retrieved 5 February 2023.