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Martin Skaba

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Martin Skaba
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
Place of birth Gleiwitz, Germany
Date of death 19 March 2024(2024-03-19) (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.

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  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.

References

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  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.
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