Heinz Murach
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Heinz Murach (born 7 April 1926 in Gelsenkirchen, died 2007) was a German football coach. In the late 1960s and early 1970s he was active in the Bundesliga with Borussia Dortmund and Rot-Weiß Oberhausen. In the later 1970s, he worked with SpVgg Erkenschwick and SC Westfalia Herne in the second division. In 1971, he led Eintracht Gelsenkirchen to the best placement of the club's history.
Career
Murach started his career in football in August 1953 as coach of Lower Saxony. From March 1956 until 1959, he continued his work in football with Athletics Association Westphalia. He was the coach of the football association Lower Rhine before he joined European Cup winners Borussia Dortmund in 1966 as the successor of Willi Multhaup. While coach of Borussia, the team roster included reputed players such as Lothar Emmerich, Sigfried Held and Reinhard Libuda. They could not win the championship but managed to place third in the Bundesliga.
In the following Bundesliga season Borussia began well, but soon started to lose consistency. Mid-season, Borussia was only in tenth place and in January 1968, Murach chose not to extend his contract. In early April, Borussia faced two consecutive defeats. He led Borussia with a 2–1 home victory over Hertha BSC in the semi-finals of the DFB-Pokal, but in the subsequent Easter Tournament in Vienna, Borussia was disgraced again and conceded two defeats. Murach then resigned and was replaced by Oßwald Pfau. At the end of the season, Borussia finished 14th.
He then coached Eintracht Gelsenkirchen, which had fallen to the third division the previous season due to point deductions for the use of an unregistered player. He revived the team by leading it in 1971 to an excellent fifth place – the best finish in club history – and a year later to a safe mid-table.
On the 21st match day of the 1972/1973 season he was hired by the Bundesliga side Rot-Weiß Oberhausen and began coaching there in addition to his duties at Eintracht Gelsenkirchen. [4] Murach followed Günter Brocker and Friedhelm Kobluhn, the third coach this season. Despite Murach's leadership, Rot-Weiß Oberhausen remained last. The following season he remained with Rot-Weiß Oberhausen and led the club to second place in the Regionalliga West SG Wattenscheid 09, which entitled them to participate in the Bundesliga promotion round. There they finished in the third place behind Tennis Borussia Berlin and FC Augsburg. They faced such a bad financial situation in those days that Murach saw no other way to save his salary other than to obtain an attachment order.
Early in the season 1974/75 he was obliged by the second division SpVgg Erkenschwick. The engagement lasted only two weeks. SpVgg was at this stage only two points away from the relegation zone in the 14th place. In November, he was replaced by his predecessor Fritz Langner. His last major engagement came in the season 1975/76 when he was hired by Westfalia Herne, also a second Bundesliga club. In the first season, he led the team to tenth place. In the following season he was replaced just after the start of the second half by Ivica Horvat, when Westfalia was only two points away from the relegation zone in 15th place. Finally, Horvat led the team to secure eleventh place.
Heinz Murach was a professional teacher at the Grillo-Gymnasium in Gelsenkirchen, where he lived after his retirement.[1][2]
Teams Coached
- 1966–1968: Borussia Dortmund
- 1968–1972: SG Eintracht Gelsenkirchen
- 1972-1972: Rot-Weiß Oberhausen
- 1974–1974: SpVgg Erkenschwick
- 1975–1976: SC Westfalia Herne
References
- ^ Die Geschichte des BVB - Teil 8: Die BVB-Historie von 1959 bis 1968 (Teil 2)], schwatzgelb.de
- ^ Hans Schöggl: International Football Tournaments played in Wien, Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation, 19. Juni 2009