Albert Beier (soccer player, 1938)

Albert Beier (born March 26, 1938 ) is a former German soccer player. For the company sports association Motor / Sachsenring Zwickau , he played in the GDR Oberliga , the highest football class of the GDR football association . He is a two-time soccer cup winner .

Soccer career

Beier is one of the numerous soccer players from Motor / Sachsenring Zwickau, who distinguished themselves in the 1960s and 1970s through a long-lasting consistency of performance. In his eleven league seasons between 1961 and 1972, he was used 268 times in 299 point games played, a rate of 89.6%. Beier completed all point games in six seasons alone.

Beier began his football career as a teenager at BSG Aufbau Brandenburg. In December 1958 he switched to Motor Süd Brandenburg. His first game for Motor Süd was a friendly against ZSK MO Moscow (CSKA). In mid-1961, the trained industrial clerk moved to BSG Motor Zwickau, the first GDR soccer champion, at the age of 23. The Zwickauers had always played in the GDR major league and, until 1956, after the founding of the sports clubs, they were always the best company sports club in the major league. In the year of his change, Beier was also included in the squad of the GDR youth national team, for which he played his first of four youth international matches on April 16, 1961. 1962 followed another international match with the B national team. Beier started out as a central defender in the big leagues. In this position he was also on May 1, 1963 in the final of the GDR soccer cup and won the FDGB cup for the first time after a 3-0 victory over Chemie Zeitz . With the beginning of the second half of 1963/64 Beier moved to the right defender position. This season he played for the first time all 26 league league games as well as the two European Cup games against MTK Budapest (1-0, 0-2).

On April 30, 1967, Beier won the FDGB Cup for the second time after a 3-0 victory over Hansa Rostock, this time as a stopper for tactical reasons , although he had played mainly as a right defender in the past season. In 1967 Beier played again in both Zwickau European Cup games, this time against Torpedo Moscow (0-0, 0-1). During the 1968/69 season, the company sports club had since been renamed Sachsenring Zwickau, coach Manfred Fuchs Beier ordered Harald Irmscher , who had migrated to FC Carl Zeiss Jena, into the midfield. In this role, Beier maintained his status as a regular player. After the failure of the previous pre-stoppers Alfons Babik and Wolfgang Enge , Beier fell back to a new role in the central midfield at the beginning of the second half of 1970/71. In this position he played until the end of the 1971/72 season, after which he ended his career as a top division player. Then Beier helped out in the second team of Sachsenring in the second-rate GDR league .

literature

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