Erhard Mosert

Erhard Mosert (born November 10, 1950 in Ramsin ) was a football player in the GDR major league for Halleschen FC Chemie and BSG Motor Suhl .

Athletic career

In the 1960s , Mosert was considered one of the greatest talents in GDR football. In the UEFA youth tournaments in 1968 and 1969, he shone as midfield director of the GDR youth team . Udo Lattek , the coach of the West German junior team , put him on a par with Franz Beckenbauer . Mosert played a total of 20 international junior matches.

Mosert's football career began with the BSG unit in Bitterfeld . At the age of 16 he was delegated by the BSG Chemie Bitterfeld to the football focus of the GDR district Halle , the Halleschen FC Chemie. There Mosert was already used as a 17-year-old in a cup game of the first men's team, in 1969 he played his first game in the GDR league. With the HFC junior team he became East German champion in the same year. One month after his 19th birthday he was used in the senior national team of the GDR . In the game Egypt - GDR (1: 3) on December 19, 1969, he played alongside Harald Irmscher and Gerhard Körner in the left midfield.

In the 1970/71 season Mosert was surprisingly third in the league with the HFC. The team had thus qualified for the UEFA Cup competition . In the first round of 1971/72 the Halle team met the Dutch team PSV Eindhoven . After the 0-0 draw in Halle, the return leg was to take place in Eindhoven on September 29, 1971. The night before, however, a fire broke out in the Halle residents' hotel accommodation, in which the HFC player Wolfgang Hoffmann was killed and Klaus Urbanczyk and Erhard Mosert were seriously injured. The HFC then withdrew its team from the European Cup . Mosert had broken a leg five times when jumping out of the hotel window.

As a result of this serious injury, Mosert permanently and considerably lost the jumping power of his left leg, which practically meant the end of high-performance sport for him. Although it remained in football, it never regained its previous performance. When the HFC was relegated from the league in 1973, Mosert moved at the age of 22 and after 68 league appearances to the GDR league club Motor Suhl. In his first season he was the top goalscorer of his team with eleven goals and landed second on the league season E's list of goalscorers. After a year and a half break in his career due to military service from autumn 1976 to spring 1978, Mosert succeeded after a total of 31 promotion round games in 1983 / 84 returned to the league on the fourth attempt after 1976, 1979 and 1981. Already 34 years old, Mosert played 24 of Suhl's 26 point games, but couldn't prevent his team from being relegated to the GDR league again at the end of the 1984/85 season . After the end of the 1986/87 season Mosert ended his career as an active football player. His record shows 92 league games (12 goals), 20 games with the junior team and 10 games with the junior national team (4 and 6 goals respectively) as well as one game in the senior national team. With the GDR Juniors, he became Vice European Champion in 1969.

With the establishment of the 1. Suhler SV as the successor to BSG Motor, Mosert, a trained precision mechanic, took over as a trainer for a few years. Other coaching stations were FC Hinternah (Juniors), SV Germania Ilmenau and in 2008 SV 08 Steinach . At times Mosert also worked as a DFB base trainer in Thuringia.

literature

• Andreas Baingo , Michael Hohlfeld: Soccer selection player of the GDR. The lexicon . Sportverlag Berlin , Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00875-6 , page 113/114.
• Michael Horn, Gottfried Weise : The great lexicon of GDR football . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-536-8 , page 241/242.
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , page 324.

Web links

• Erhard Mosert in the database of weltfussball.de
• Erhard Mosert in the database of the German Football Association