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Christian Helm (born January 6, 1952 ) was a football player in the [GDR Oberliga (football) | [GDR Oberliga]], the highest East German football class. He played there for Dynamo Dresden and won the GDR four times with the team. Helm is a multiple junior national player.
Career at Dynamo Dresden
At the age of ten, Helm was accepted into the children's team at Dynamo Dresden. After he had gone through all the youth teams, he was used for the first time in the league in the 1972/73 season. His first league game played Helm on November 18, 1972. In the 7-2 victory over Rot-Weiß Erfurt on matchday 10 of the 1972/73 season, he was set up as a left defender. By the end of the season he was used in eight other first division games and won the GDR championship in his first league season. In October 1973 Helm played for the first time in the youth national team of the GDR. With her he was runner-up in the U-23 European Championship in 1974. He played in both finals against Hungary (3: 2, 0: 4). Helm played a total of eight international matches with the youth team.
Between 1973 and 1980, the 1.76 m helmet was a permanent member of the Dresdner Dynamos regular as a right defender. In 1976, 1977 and 1978 he won his championship titles number two to four. In 1974 and 1978 he was with Dynamo in the finals of the GDR soccer cup , but could not win the cup. Helm was not on the pitch in the 1977 and 1982 Dresden Cup victories. From the 1980/81 season he increasingly had to struggle with injuries, in this season he was only used seven times in the league, in 1981/82 there were 15 games, 1982/83 only five. Then he was transferred to the 2nd team, but ended his career as an active football player during the season.
In his eleven league years, Helm had played 188 league games and scored three goals as a defender. In addition to various national cup games, Helm was also used in 30 European cup games.
Helm was one of the few players of his time at Dynamo Dresden who never played in the senior national team. In 1979 he was nominated for an international match because of an injury to Gerd Kische from Rostock . Since Kische was able to play after all, Helm was part of the squad, but was not used.
After the football career
The former Dresden club boss Horst Rohne, now section head at the Dynamo Zinnwald winter sports club , brought Helm, who is a trained mechanical engineer, in 1983 as the technical director of the tobogganers there. Helm looked after u. a. Steffi Walter and Gabi Kohlisch's sleighs . After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he had to reorient himself and successfully applied for an advertisement as head of promotion for Rothmann's cigarettes . In 2006 he took early retirement and then trained teams in Pirna (together with Frank Lippmann ) and Heidenau .
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The following sources were used for the first version of the article:
- Stations: Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 .
- Dates of birth, league operations: Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The history of the GDR league. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 .
- Details of games: Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): DDR-Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Helm, Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1952 |