Michael Weinrich (soccer player)

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Michael Weinrich (born November 3, 1969 in East Berlin ) is a former Berlin soccer player who played for 1. FC Union Berlin in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of the GDR Football Association .

Athletic career

Weinrich joined the youth department of 1. FC Union Berlin in 1981 from the East Berlin training center in Lichtenberg. There he played in the GDR junior league from 1985 and was appointed to the squad of the GDR junior national team in 1989. He was part of the GDR squad for the youth soccer world championship in 1989 , but was not used.

At this point he had already made his debut in the men's league as an 18-year-old student. He played his first league game on May 21, 1988 in the encounter of the 25th game day of the 1987/88 season 1. FC Union - HFC Chemie (3-2), after being substituted on in the 78th minute. On the last game day of this season he came against FC Karl-Marx-Stadt in the 72nd in the game, scored the equalizer in the 73rd minute to 2-2 and thus prepared the Unioner's 3-2 victory managed to stay up.

Nevertheless, Weinrich was then delegated and at the beginning of the 1988/89 season sent to the second-rate GDR league promoted BSG KWO Berlin . Just four months after 1. FC Union had landed on a relegation zone with blatant storm weakness, the club brought the 1.75 m tall Weinrich back as a striker, and coach Karsten Heine put him in nine point and one point until the end of the season Cup game a. Weinrich was only in the starting eleven in the last two league games, but could no longer save the Unioners from relegation. Handicapped by injuries, Weinrich was only able to play six point games in the GDR league season 1989/90, was then nominated for the 1990/91 season, but ended his career as a competitive athlete at the end of 1990. As a recreational footballer, he played for some time at SV Lichtenberg 47 in Berlin .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Description in GDR football when a player was removed from a team that was funded by sport policy and transferred to a team that was not worthy of funding.

literature

  • Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 297.
  • Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Weinrich, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd November 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin