Günter Imhof

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Günter Imhof
Personnel
birthday January 27, 1934
position striker
Juniors
Years station
BSG upstairs hall
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1952 BSG upstairs hall
1952-1953 BSG turbine hall 21 (5)
1953 BSG Motor Dessau 0 (0)
1953-1954 SpVgg Fürth 1 (0)
1954-1958 SC Chemistry Hall 93 (7)
1959-1961 SC Motor Jena 27 (1)
1961– BSG Motor Zeiss Jena
BSG Chemie Jena
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1952 GDR 2 (0)
1953-1956 DDR U-23 3 (1)
1957 GDR B 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Günter Imhof (born January 27, 1934 ) is a former German soccer player and one of the first national soccer players in the GDR .

Athletic career

As a youth, Imhof played in the third-class district league with the company sports community (BSG) Empor in Halle (Saale) until October 1952 . There he drew so much attention to himself that, at the age of 18, on September 21, 1952, in the first game of the GDR national team against Poland (0: 3) without first division experience, he was used as a center forward. As a later republic refugee he was not allowed to continue playing in the national team, so that his second appearance in the game against Romania on October 26, 1952 (1: 3) was his last. Imhof was on the ball once in the B national team in June 1957, around two and a half after his return to the GDR ) and afterwards (July / August 1956). In his debut for the then U-23 national team , he scored the 1-0 winner in Karl-Marx-Stadt against the offspring from ČSR in the first game of this selection .

From the end of October 1952 Imhof played for the reigning GDR soccer champion BSG Turbine Halle and only played in the top division of the GDR for the first time after his two international matches in mid-November. In this season , however, the team could no longer build on their previous year's success and landed on the disappointing 13th place.

Imhof then moved to district rival BSG Motor Dessau in July 1953 , which had placed significantly better with 6th place. There he did not complete a single point game, because shortly after his move he left the GDR , apparently disappointed by the suppression of the popular uprising of June 17 . He joined the SpVgg Fürth , which was represented in the Oberliga Süd in West Germany , but was only used in one game in one and a half seasons until the turn of the year 1954/55.

He then returned to his hometown Halle and joined his old team - operating as SC Chemie Halle-Leuna since September 1954. From January 1955 he came to nine missions in the 1954/55 season , which ended with the descent of Halle. A year later he celebrated his greatest success with SC Chemie, when he and his team sensationally won the GDR Cup final as a second division team 2-1 against the upper division ASK Vorwärts Berlin on December 16, 1956 . Imhof scored the 2-1 winning goal in the final in the 84th minute. Since Chemie Halle-Leuna also managed to rise again, Imhof played again in the top GDR soccer class from 1957. However, his team did not have the necessary class in the long term. After a 12th place in 1957 , tied on points with the BSG Lokomotive Stendal , who had left the league , she had to relegate again in 1958  - in the summer after the merger with the football section of SC Wissenschaft Halle as SC Chemie Halle - as the bottom of the league.

In order to be able to continue playing in the league, Imhof switched to runner-up SC Motor Jena . He played there until 1961 and was able to celebrate another cup victory with his team in 1960 , but, unlike the victory with Halle, in which he was the match winner four years ago, he was not in the final (3-2 against Empor Rostock) used. After Imhof had finished competitive football relatively early at the age of 27 after a total of 105 first division games (104 in the GDR / 1 in the Federal Republic), he let his career end with lower-class teams in Jena . In 1962, he helped BSG Motor Zeiss Jena to move up to the third-rate, 2nd GDR league, and in 1966 , with BSG Chemie Jena , to move up to the second-rate GDR league. In the southern season of the league, Imhof played his last seven games in higher-class GDR football in 1966/67 . The chemical team from Jena could not prevent relegation this season as bottom of the table.

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SURNAME Imhof, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1934