Fritz Less

Fritz Less (born June 10, 1948 ) is a former German soccer player who played for BSG Chemie Leipzig in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of GDR soccer, in the 1970s and 1980s .

Athletic career

The company sports community (BSG) Chemie Wolfen was Fritz Weniger's first stop in the GDR-wide soccer game. With BSG Chemie he played in the second-rate GDR league for the first time in the 1969/70 season , of the 30 point games he played 25 games and was successful with four goals. 1970/71 only 26 games were played, of which Less completed 20 and this time scored two goals. The 1971/72 season he had to spend in the third-rate Halle district league , as the BSG Chemie had violated the association's regulations and had been suspended from the GDR league. Within a year the Wolfenern managed to return to the GDR league with the help of Fritz Less. At the beginning of the 1972/73 season he moved to BSG Chemie Leipzig, which had previously been promoted from the GDR league. But it was not less successful to play into the regular team. He was only used as a striker in ten league games, of which he played seven games from the start and scored three goals. 1973/74 he came on the same number of league appearances, but this time remained without a goal. At the end of the season, BSG Chemie was relegated to the GDR league again, but immediately managed to get promoted again. Less was involved with 19 league games and seven promotion games with a total of four goals. In his third league season, less lost his regular place and came back to only ten point games without a goal. When the BSG Chemie then had to relegate, less switched to the GDR league club activist Espenhain . There he was part of the regular eleven for three seasons and was used 63 times in 66 league games. He scored 31 goals, in 1977/78 with 15 goals he was the top scorer of the BSG activist. After he had played five point games in Espenhain in the first half of the 1979/80 season, BSG Chemie Leipzig brought him back to their league team, where he again only acted as a substitute. In his ten missions, he only played three games over the full time. When he was relegated with Chemie Leipzig for the third time at the end of the season, he left the chemists for good and joined BSG Stahl Nordwest Leipzig . With her he played 16 of 22 games in the GDR league in 1981/82 and scored his last two goals in higher-class football. In the summer of 1981 he ended his career as a football player, in which he had come to 40 league games with three goals and 148 GDR league games with 45 goals between 1969 and 1981. There are also seven games in the promotion round to the league. From 1981 to 1990 he worked as a trainer for activist Espenhain, whose team played in the district league at this time.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1969–1990. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 520.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 328.

Web links

• Fritz Less in the database of the German Football Association
• Fritz Less in the database of weltfussball.de