Günter Riedl

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Günter Riedl (born October 5, 1942 ) is a former German soccer player. For SC Chemie Halle and Halleschen FC Chemie , he played in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football, in the 1960s and 1970s .

Athletic career

At the beginning of the 1961/62 season, Günter Riedl moved from the company sports community (BSG) activist Amsdorf to the upper division club SC Chemie Halle, the region’s football focus. The season began in March 1961 and ended after 39 match days in June 1962, as the GDR football game operation was switched from the calendar year rhythm to the summer-spring rhythm. The 18-year-old Riedl was used on the first day of the league and replaced Klaus Urbanczyk , who was not ready for action, in the Halle defense. It remained in this season with a use in the league, the rest of the time Riedl played in the reserve team. He was also not used in the cup final, which SC Chemie won 3-1 against SC Dynamo Berlin . In the spring of 1961 he was appointed to the squad of the junior GDR junior national team and played two junior international matches as a midfielder. For the 1962/63 season he was officially nominated for the player base of the league team, but was only used in five point games. In the 1963/64 season Riedl started with appearances in the first four league games, but only came back to eight league games in the second half of the season, where he scored his first league goal on the last match day. At the end of the season, Chemie Halle was relegated to the GDR league , but managed to get promoted again immediately. Riedl was instrumental in this, because he played 27 of the 30 GDR league games. In the new league season 1965/66 Riedl was until the 16th match day as a midfielder regular player in Halle, who competed from the second half of the season as Hallescher FC Chemie (HFC). After a break of several weeks, Riedl only made three appearances in the major league at the end of the season. Also in the following two seasons he had longer slacks, so that he was only able to play 30 games of the 52 league games. He experienced a low point in 1968/69 when he was only used in eight games in the league. Immediately afterwards he experienced his best season, in 1969/70 he only missed one league encounter. It was followed by two seasons again with longer breaks and occasional missions in the GDR league team HFC II. In September 1971 Riedl played his only European Cup match with the encounter HFC-PSV Eindhoven (0-0) in the UEFA Cup competition 1971/72 . The following night, the Halle team fell victim to a hotel fire. Since the player Wolfgang Hoffmann killed us, the HFC withdrew its team from the UEFA Cup. From the 1972/73 season on Riedl finally fell out of the player base of the first team of the HFC. This season, the HFC rose again from the league, Riedl was only used in ten point games. In the following GDR league season he completed only three point games and one game of the eight promotion games. After the HFC had managed the immediate rise again, Riedl came back only sporadically in nine league games in the 1974/75 season, in November 1975 he began a six-month reservist assignment in the National People's Army . For the 1975/76 season he was nominated for the HFC league team, but only made four appearances with the second team in the GDR league. Then Günter Riedel ended his career in high-class football at the age of 33. Within fifteen seasons he had completed 148 league games (5 goals) and 38 GDR league games (1 goal) as well as a European cup game.

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SURNAME Riedl, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1942