Günter Helgert

Günter Helgert (born May 18, 1946 in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate ) is a former German football player who played eight games in the amateur national team in the 1970/71 season and scored two goals.

career

Association until 1976

In the youth department of SV Weiden, the pupil Günter Helgert was trained in football in all stages of the year and from 1963 was deployed for two years in the senior team in the first team, which belonged to the district class. The strong, constantly fighting and both-legged striker was signed by the local number one and promoted to the football regional league South , the SpVgg Weiden , for the round 1965/66.

The 19-year-old offensive talent of coach Karel Finek was immediately used in the debut game of the regional league season on August 15, 1965, in the stadium on Bieberer Berg against Kickers Offenbach . Weiden lost the opening game with 0-2 goals and had to recognize the class of the team around Siegfried Gast and Hermann Nuber . For the young player Helgert only the games in the second half of the season, from March 20, 1966, increased stakes. In the fight for relegation he contributed one goal each in the two draw games against Rüsselsheim and Bayern Hof in May 1966. Günter Helgert was also on 22 May 1966 at the team's union, as on the last round round of KSV Hessen Kassel with 4: won 2 goals in Weiden - three goals of Ernst Kuster - and thus the Upper Palatinate together with the VfR Pforzheim and ESV Ingolstadt the Had to compete in the amateur camp. Twelve games and two goals were Helgert's personal contribution to the 1965/66 regional round of SpVgg Weiden.

The young striker experienced nine seasons with the game association in the Bayern League from the 1966/67 season . When Manfred Linz returned from 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 for the 1970/71 round, Günter Helgert, who stormed the Bavarian association selection from 1968, also benefited. Behind champions and regional league promoted SpVgg Bayreuth , the game association placed second and thus moved into the games of the German amateur championship . Weiden lost the two games against the amateurs of VfB Stuttgart - the Swabian offspring later moved into the final - but the interim amateur national player Helgert still distinguished himself as a goalscorer. Helgert and his teammates won the second runner-up in 1972 when they came in second behind the new champions FC Wacker Munich . But that meant the good times in the Bayern League for Helgert with Weiden were over. In the 1974/75 round, the champion of the year 1965 was relegated to the national league. Helgert had to suffer from asthma attacks from 1975 and tried it thereby in the 1975/76 season to help the game association with half-time stakes. However, since he could no longer go to the limits of his performance due to the health restriction - it had a negative effect in training as well as in the game - he ended his active playing career in the summer of 1976.

Selection appointments

The attacker Günter Helgert, who mostly attacked as a center forward or on the left wing, was a member of the Bavarian association team from 1968 and won the state cup with his comrades in 1970 . After successes against Hessen, Niederrhein and Bremen, Bavaria prevailed in the final on October 6, 1970 in Karlsruhe against the representation of North Baden with a 2-0 victory. Helgert had brought his team 1-0 lead in the 71st minute. Together with Herbert Horn from SpVgg Bayreuth and Roland Stegmayer from 1. FC Nürnberg, he formed the three-way attack of the BFV selection. Due to his assertiveness, goal danger and variable usability in all three positions at the top, Helgert then also became interesting for DFB trainer Jupp Derwall , who was responsible for the German national soccer team of amateurs and who worked on the roster for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. The man from Weiden was nominated for the amateur national team of the DFB for the multi-week Africa tour in December 1970 / January 1971 and therefore celebrated his debut in the DFB-Elf on this trip abroad. Helgert came from December 27, 1970 in Lagos to January 16, 1971 in Dakar on six international appearances and scored two goals. His first goal on January 3, 1971 in Accra against Ghana secured the German team a 1-1 draw and with their second goal in the international dress, the Derwall protégés won the game on January 13 in Freetown with 1-0 goals against Sierra Leone . The player from the Bayernliga played his seventh and eighth international game for the DFB amateurs in the two test matches in Tunis and Santa Cruz / Tenerife against Tunisia and Spain on April 25 and 28, 1971. In addition to Helgert, only the second goalkeeper Hans belonged -Peter Schauber from Rot-Weiss Frankfurt to a club from the amateur camp , all other aspirants for the Olympic Games at this point already came from the regional leagues or the Bundesliga.

With the Bavarian association selection, Günter Helgert repeated winning the title in the regional cup from the previous year in 1971. The final on July 11, 1971 in Bayreuth against the Lower Rhine - with their top performers Heiner Baltes , Reiner Hollmann , Rudolf Seliger , Klaus Wunder - he decided with his goal in the 93rd minute to a 2-1 win in extra time. Club mate Manfred Linz stormed it on the left wing of the BFV-Elf.

End of career

Helgert, who had turned down contract offers from Hamburger SV, 1860 Munich and 1. FC Nürnberg for family reasons after his appointment to the amateur national team and his country cup successes, worked professionally as the manager of a construction company in Weiden. After his playing days, he was still associated with football as a coach in the lower amateur area for over ten years.

literature

• Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 .
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.), Regionalliga Süd 1963–1974, ISBN 3-9803071-1-5 .
• Bavarian Football Association (publisher), 50 years BFV, Vindelica publishing house.
• Kicker-Almanach 1971, Copress-Verlag.
• Kicker-Almanach 1972, Copress-Verlag.