Jürgen Belger

Jürgen Belger (born February 14, 1939 ) was a football player in the GDR Oberliga . In the top division of the GDR Football Association , he played for 1. FC Union Berlin .

Athletic career

Belger played until 1958 at SC Chemie Halle in the youth team and in the reserve team. At the beginning of the 1959 season he moved to TSC Oberschöneweide in East Berlin . There he first played in the third-class II. GDR League , but rose in 1963 with the team in the I. GDR League . Before that, TSC Oberschöneweide had already merged into the newly founded TSC Berlin . Three years later he experienced another restructuring with the spin-off of the football section from the TSC to the new 1. FC Union Berlin. The club was founded in the 1965/66 season, at the end of which the Unioners were established as promoters in the league. The 1.79 m tall Belger played a key role in this success as a defender, as he was used in most of the season's point games.

Belger's first league season in 1966/67 began for him cautiously, because in the first half of the season he was only used five of the thirteen point games. Only in the second half of the season did he establish himself as a standard central defender. After Belger had played all six intertoto games of 1. FC Union and the first four league rounds in the summer of 1967 , he was only used three times in the league in 1967. Only in April 1969 he returned to the league team and completed his last six premier league games by the end of the season. Then Union rose as penultimate from the league. Belger then played only one GDR league match in September 1969 and was only used in the district league team Union II until the end of the 1969/70 season .

Belger later ended his career as a football player with the lower-class Berlin company sports association Empor Brandenburger Tor . He then worked as a trainer in the junior division of 1. FC Union.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 67.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 296.
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .

Web links

• Jürgen Belger in the database of the German Football Association