![]() Skaba during a match between ASK Vorwärts Berlin and SC Dynamo Berlin on 23 March 1958. | |||
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 28 July 1935 | ||
Place of birth | Gleiwitz, Germany | ||
Date of death | 19 March 2024 | (aged 88)||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Youth career | |||
1952-1954 | BSG Motor Quedlinburg | ||
1954-1956 | SC DHfK Leipzig | ||
1955-1956 | SC Dynamo Berlin | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1956-1968 | BFC Dynamo[a] | 255 | |
International career | |||
1958–1963 | East Germany | 8 | (0) |
Managerial career | |||
1971-1974 | BFC Dynamo II | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Martin Skaba (28 July 1935 – 19 March 2024) was a German 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]
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.
Gallery
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The team of BFC Dynamo at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark on 8 September 1979. Assistant coach Skaba is seen second from left in the middle row, next to coach Bogs.
Notes
- ^ 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.
References
- ^ "Martin Skaba". EU Football. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Martin Skaba". National Football Teams. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
- ^ 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.
External links
- Martin Skaba at WorldFootball.net
- Martin Skaba at National-Football-Teams.com
- Martin Skaba at the German Football Association
- Martin Skaba at EU-Football.info