Martin Skaba (born 28 July 1935) is a German former

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

. Skaba came to

SC Dynamo Berlin The Sports Club Dynamo Berlin was an East German sports club that existed from 1954 to 1991. It was the largest sports club of SV Dynamo, the sports association of the security agencies. The club was disbanded after German reunification and even ...

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 The 1956 DDR-Oberliga was the eighth season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany. Rather than in the traditional autumn-spring format the Oberliga played for six seasons from 1955 to 1960 in the calendar year for ...

. Skaba won the

FDGB-Pokal The FDGB-Pokal (Freier Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund Pokal or Free German Trade Union Federation Cup) was an elimination football tournament held annually in East Germany. It was the second most important national title in East German football aft ...

with SC Dynamo Berlin in

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. He ended his playing career in 1968. Skaba played in 255 league matches for SC Dynamo Berlin and BFC Dynamo. He also played in eight matches for the

East Germany national football team The East Germany national football team, recognized as Germany DR by FIFA, was from 1952 to 1990 the football team of East Germany, playing as one of three post-war German teams, along with Saarland and West Germany. After German reunification ...

from 1958 to 1963. 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 The DDR-Liga (English: GDR League or ''East German League'') was, prior to German reunification in 1990, the second level of football competition in the DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik or German Democratic Republic, commonly East Germany), bei ...

from 1971 to 1974. BFC Dynamo II under Skaba won the 1971-72 DDR-Liga Staffel B. Skaba then served as the first assistant coach of

Jürgen Bogs Jürgen Bogs (born 19 January 1947) is a German football coach who led BFC Dynamo to ten consecutive DDR-Oberliga titles from 1979 to 1988. Bogs was a youth coach at BFC Dynamo before becoming the coach of the first team in 1977. The ten conse ...

in the DDR-Oberliga. Skaba later went to

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, where he trained local coaches. He continued as youth trainer in BFC Dynamo and FC Berlin after returning from Africa.

Gallery

File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-U0908-0001, Europapokal, Mannschaftsfoto BFC Dynamo Berlin.jpg, The team of BFC Dynamo at the

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on 8 September 1979. Assistant coach Skaba is seen second from left in the middle row, next to coach Bogs.

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* 1935 births Living people East German men's footballers East Germany men's international footballers Berliner FC Dynamo players Place of birth missing (living people) Men's association football defenders {{Germany-footy-bio-stub