Detlef Helms

Helms at the BFC 1978

Detlef Helms (born October 10, 1960 ) was a football player in the GDR Oberliga . There he played for 1. FC Union Berlin and BFC Dynamo . With the BFC he was four times GDR champion. Helms is a successful GDR junior national player.

Athletic career

Helms' football career began at the age of six, in the summer of 1967 with the East Berlin sports association Blau-Weiß Mahlsdorf-Süd. At the age of 14 he moved to the youth team of 1. FC Union Berlin. In 1976 he was accepted into the squad of the GDR junior national team, with which he played his first junior international match on April 3, 1977 against Finland (3-1). By May 1979 he was used in a total of 39 international matches of the junior team and quickly gained a regular place as a center forward. 21 international goals go to his account. From his junior class 1977/79 he was by far the record player.

Helms also went down in the annals with a record at 1. FC Union. On February 26, 1977, he was used at the age of 16 as the club's youngest player in the first team. In the league game between FC Karl-Marx-Stadt and 1. FC Union (2-0) he was substituted on in the 76th minute. He was twice called up as a substitute in the 1976/77 season.

At the beginning of the 1977/78 season, the almost 17-year-old Helms switched to city rivals, the top club of the Dynamo Police Sports Association, BFC Dynamo. There he came as a center forward on the 5th match day for the first time in the league team, but was replaced in the 56th minute. By the end of the season he was used in another five league games, either as a substitute or substitute. For the season 1978/79 the 1.79 m tall helmet was again nominated for the first team, but was not used in the major league. Although extremely successful in the junior national team, he did not succeed in gaining a foothold in the men's division at the BFC. Until the 1980/81 season he was always part of the league squad, but was only called up ten times in the top division within two seasons. He had his relatively best time in 1979/80, when he played three times as a striker over the full distance in six missions and was successful three times as a goalscorer. For the 1980/81 season Helms was transferred to the junior team that played in the junior league. In addition, Helms came in the first team until the summer of 1983 to four short appearances in the major league. Overall, he played for the BFC 20 times in the league and with his short appearances in 1980, 1981, 1982 and 1984 was one of the championship teams of the respective seasons.

When the junior team was disbanded after the 1983/84 season, the now 23-year-old Helms joined the third-rate district division BSG Chemie PCK Schwedt . He later ended his football career as a hobby footballer with the lower-class East Berlin company sports association Auto-Trans.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 199.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 296.
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .

Web links

• Detlef Helms in the database of the German Football Association