Bernhard Konik

Bernhard Konik
Personnel
birthday	April 10, 1960
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
until 1982	BSG Wismut Gera	GDR League? (?)
1982-1990	BSG Wismut Aue	Major League 166 (1)
1990-1992	FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt	Major League 22 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1984	GDR	1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Bernhard Konik (born April 10, 1960 ) was a soccer player in the GDR upper league for Wismut Aue and FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt and played once in the GDR national soccer team .

Career

Until 1982 Konik, who had also been a student at the children's and youth sports school in Jena, played for the company sports community (BSG) Wismut Gera . There he last played with the first men's team in the second-rate GDR league . Carrier operating the BSG was the Wismut , a Soviet-German uranium mining company , whose football performance center was the BSG bismuth Aue. After the young defender was noticed in Gera with good performances, he was "delegated" to the Aue performance center at the end of the 1981/82 season according to the GDR football conditions. Wismut Gera had narrowly missed promotion by taking second place in its league relay, old master Wismut Aue had landed in 10th place in the GDR Oberliga in the past season. From 1983 Konik had a regular place in Aue, in the 1984/85 season he played his most competitive games for the bismuth team with 31 appearances. It was also a successful year for Wismut Aue, they were group winners in the European Intertoto Cup and after the top division season ended up in 4th place, the best position in twelve years.

For Konik, the game year 1984/85 was also remarkable in other ways. On September 12, 1984 he was used in a friendly game of the GDR national team against Greece. As a left defender, he experienced a 1-0 victory in Zwickau. However, he had such strong competitors in his position with the Leipzig Zötzsche and the Dresden Döschner that there were no further international matches. Konik's international debut was favored by the fact that the GDR played a second international match against England on the same day with the actual regular players (0: 1). In addition to Konik, Wolfgang Benkert , Armin Romstedt and Norbert Rudolph also benefited from this fact . For these players too, it was an international match.

Konik stayed as a regular in Aue until the end of the 1989/90 season. In these nine years he played 198 competitive games, including 166 top division point games, 15 national and 17 international cup games. Since Wismut Aue was relegated in 1990, Konik went to FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt , who had finished the season 11th. The last GDR league season was held in 1990/91, before football was taken over by the DFB in East Germany after German reunification . During this season Konik played again 22 league games for Erfurt and reached 3rd place with his team, the best placement of his career for him. With 3rd place, Rot-Weiß Erfurt had qualified for the 2nd Bundesliga 1991/92, but the now 31-year-old Konik was no longer used in the Bundesliga team. He then ended his career as an active football player in the summer of 1992.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1982–1990. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 269.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 290.

Web links

• Bernhard Konik in the database of the German Football Association