Martin Skaba : Gallery, Notes Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Martin Skaba

German footballer

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (December 2021) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

View a machine-translated version of the German article.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Martin Skaba]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|de|Martin Skaba}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Martin Skaba
Personal information
Skaba during a match between ASK Vorwärts Berlin and SC Dynamo Berlin on 23 March 1958.
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.

Gallery

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.