Franz Egel
Franz Egel (born April 12, 1949 ) was a football player in the GDR Oberliga , the highest class in GDR football games. There he played 248 times for FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt .
Athletic career
Egel began playing football as a student at the company sports association Motor in Heiligenstadt, Thuringia . As a junior, he came to the region’s soccer focus, FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt , in 1966 . With the Red and White Juniors, he became GDR champion in 1967. In the final against BFC Dynamo, Egel scored the 1-0 winning goal. In the same year he received his first appointment to the junior national team of the GDR, with which he played a total of four international matches in 1967.
When Egel was allowed to play in the men's division in the summer of 1967, Red-White played in the second-rate GDR league after his relegation a year ago . In the immediate resurgence, Egel was still involved with a point game. From the second match day of the top division season 1967/68 on, the 1.78 m tall young talent was regularly used and played mainly in midfield. There Egel earned good grades and thus moved almost seamlessly from the junior to the youth national team, in which he finally played sixteen games between 1967 and 1972.
When the Libero football type was invented in the 1970s , Egel took on this role at FC Rot-Weiß. In Egel's time, FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt was at best mediocre in GDR football, so Egel did not achieve any spectacular success at club level. On the contrary, he had to play a year in the GDR league again after another descent of Erfurt in the 1971/72 season. This time, with 26 missions, he was instrumental in the immediate return to the league. In the 1976/77 season he achieved the best league result of his career with FC Rot-Weiß with rank 6.
In the course of the 1978/79 season Egel withdrew from the club's league team and ended his career as a high-performance athlete at the age of 30. As a qualified sports teacher, he was now active as a junior coach at Rot-Weiß. It was only in 2008 that he finally said goodbye to football. As an active player, Egel had played 309 competitive games for Erfurt, including 248 appearances in the major league and 34 cup games. His 15 league goals, which he scored as a regular defender, are not commonplace.
literature
- German sport echo : born 1967–1979. ISSN 0323-8628
- Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 116.
- Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 310.
Web links
- Franz Egel in the database of the German Football Association
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Egel, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1949 |