Bernd Wargos

Wargos (center) as goalkeeper of the junior national team

Bernd Wargos (born January 17, 1953 in Waltersdorf ; † July 21, 2017 in Berlin ) was a soccer goalkeeper in the games of the GDR soccer association . In its first division, the GDR Oberliga , he was active for the Berlin FC Dynamo and for 1. FC Union Berlin . He was a multiple GDR junior national player.

Athletic career

youth

In 1963 Wargos was accepted into the children's team of the company sports association (BSG) Chemie in Fürstenwalde , east of Berlin . At the age of 14 he was delegated to East Berlin to the top club of the Dynamo police sports association , the BFC Dynamo. There he played in the junior team from 1969 and recommended himself in the games of the junior league for the GDR junior national team. On November 26, 1969 he was in goal for the junior selection in an international match, it was the encounter between the GDR and the Netherlands (0-0). By 1971 he played a total of nine junior internationals.

BFC Dynamo

From 1971 Wargos was used at the BFC in the men's division and initially played for BFC II in the second-rate GDR league . There he finished the season with the team as a season winner. In the 1972/73 season he already represented the BFC goalkeeper Werner Lihsa when he was injured in the last four league games. His first league game took place on June 13, 1973 when he was substituted on for Werner Lihsa in the match Chemistry Leipzig - BFC (0-0) in the 60th minute. In his four league games, he had to accept five goals. In the following seasons Wargos could not meet the expectations placed in him as a junior national player. Until 1976 he was always in the shadow of the BFC goalkeepers Lihsa, Hans-Gustav Creydt and Reinhardt Schwertner and was used in the second team of the BFC when he was not on the bench.

1. FC Union Berlin

Even before the end of the 1975/76 season, Wargos switched to city rivals 1. FC Union Berlin on May 7, 1976, although the latter had already used four goalkeepers in the current season. Almost four weeks after his move, Wargos was used for the first time in the first Union team in the last and already insignificant game of the promotion round to the GDR Oberliga Union Berlin - Motor Werdau (0-0). This had already qualified for the league before, and for the 1976/77 season nominated coach Heinz Werner Wargos as the second goalkeeper behind Wolfgang Matthies . However, this played all league games, Wargos was only used in a cup game of the first team. Also in the following seasons 1977/78 and 1978/79 Wargos did not play in the league. It was not until Matthies was drafted into the army in November 1979 that the way was clear for Wargos to establish themselves as regular goalkeepers for a few months. At the end of the 1979/80 season, the 21-year-old Andreas Hawa was already competing with him. At the end of the season Union had to relegate back to the GDR league. In the league season 1980/81 the competition between Wargos and Hawa continued. Wargos played 21 competitive games, Hawa made twelve appearances. After the end of the season in which Union had missed the return to the league, but goalkeeper Matthies had returned from the army, Wargos left the club. In his six years at Union, he had played 40 competitive games for the first team, 15 of them in the major league.

See also: List of players of 1. FC Union Berlin

After competitive sport

For the 1981/82 season Wargos joined the East Berlin third division club BSG Kabelwerk Oberspree . Here he met his former Union counterpart Wolfgang Gehrke and was number two behind him in the KWO goal. In 1982 the cable workers rose to the GDR league for a year, after relegation in 1983, the now 30-year-old Wargos moved to the GDR league promoted Motor Eberswalde . There he was only the third goalkeeper, and when Eberswalde also relegated again after a year, Wargos ended his career as a competitive athlete in 1984. He joined the East Berlin district division SG Hohenschönhausen for three years and was then still active as a hobby footballer at BSG Wartenberg. Professionally, he worked as a sports teacher; he had already obtained his sports teacher diploma in the 1970s. In 1991 Wargos became a member of the BSG successor club Wartenberger SV, for which he was still active in 2010 in the over-50 team. In the Berlin Football Association, he took over the post of Pankow district school chairman.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 513.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pp. 295, 297.
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .
• Website of the 1. FC Union Berlin

Web links

• Bernd Wargos in the database of the German Football Association
• Bernd Wargos on immerunioner.de