Martin Skaba

Martin Skaba (28 July 1935 – March 2024) was a German footballer.^[1]

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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, Free State of Prussia, Germany (present-day Upper Silesia, Poland)
Date of death	March 2024(2024-03-00) (aged 88)
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
1952-1954	BSG Motor Quedlinburg
1954-1955	SC DHfK Leipzig
1955-1956	SC Dynamo Berlin
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1954-1955	SC DHfK Leipzig	7	(0)
1956-1968	SC Dynamo Berlin / BFC Dynamo^[a]	299
International career
1958–1963	East Germany	8	(0)
Managerial career
1971-1974	BFC Dynamo II
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Playing career

Skaba came to SC Dynamo Berlin as a 19-year old in 1955. 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 East German top-flight matches for SC Dynamo Berlin and its successor football club BFC Dynamo.^[2] He also appeared in 44 games for the team in the second division.^[3]

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Coaching career

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.^[6]

Skaba then became the assistant coach of the new coach of the DDR-Oberliga team, Jürgen Bogs, in 1976. Skaba served as assistant coach of Bogs until 1980.

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

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.

Playing career

International career

Coaching career

Later life

Gallery

Notes

References

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