Günter Busch (soccer player, 1928)

Günter Busch (born January 23, 1928 ) is a former German football player. For SC Chemie Halle , he played 102 games in the GDR league between 1957 and 1963 , the top division of GDR football . He scored 31 goals.

Athletic career

In 1952, the company sports community (BSG) Motor Ammendorf was the relay winner of the Saxony-Anhalt district class and thus qualified for the newly created third-class Halle district league . The team included the 24-year-old striker Günter Busch. He stayed in Ammendorf until the first half of the 1957 season (calendar year game rhythm) and then moved to SC Chemie Halle-Leuna, who played two classes higher.

Halle's coach Horst Sokoll used Günter Busch as a left winger at the beginning of the second half of the 1957 season and held on to him until the end of the season. Busch made 13 appearances in his first league season, and with his six goals he was the second best scorer in SC Chemie. In 1958, Busch was the only Halle player to play all 26 point games. With nine goals he was the team's top scorer. In the course of the season, SC Chemie had merged with SC Wissenschaft Halle and then dropped the addition "Leuna". At the end of the season, the sports club had to be relegated from the league. In the second-rate GDR league , Busch was used again in all 26 championship games, continued to play as a striker on the left wing and was number two among chemical shooters this time with 14 goals. Halle immediately returned to the league, and Busch was again set as left winger. But for the first time he did not manage to play in all the league games and only made 19 appearances. His goal rate was also disappointing with two goals. In 1961, GDR football was switched back to the summer-spring game rhythm, which required 39 games between March 1961 and June 1962 in the Oberliga. Busch found his way back to his old strength, completed 34 of the 39 point games and was again the top scorer in Halle with 13 goals. SC Chemie crowned the season by winning the GDR soccer cup with a 3-1 final win over SC Dynamo Berlin . Surprisingly, left winger Busch was unable to enter the cup winner's list of goalscorers.

At the beginning of the 1962/63 season, Busch was 34 years old and had passed his performance peak. After he had been used in the first two league games of the season and had scored two goals in the second leg against OFK Belgrade in the European Cup Winners' Cup at 3: 3, he was only used in three other league games in the first round after breaks. The same picture presented itself in 1963/64 when he only played five league games in the first half of the season. He stayed for the first time in his league career without a goal. After the end of the season, Günter Busch ended his career as a high-performance footballer.

literature

• German sports echo : born 1957–1964. ISSN  0323-8628 .
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 92.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 318.

Web links

• Günter Busch in the database of the German Football Association