Günther Lindinger

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Eduard Günther Lindinger (born July 12, 1948 in Passau ) is a former German soccer player who played an international game for the amateur national team in the 1969/70 season . In the 1970/71 round, the defensive player of 1. FC Passau won the national cup competition in the ranks of the Bavarian amateur team.

Career

societies

Lindinger won at the end of the season 1967/68 with his club 1. FC Passau the championship in the Landesliga Bayern, Staffel Mitte and thus rose to the 1. Amateur League Bayern , in which he played continuously until 1974; During this time he played 173 point games in which he scored three goals. With fourth place at the end of the 1973/74 season, he and his teammates achieved the best placement in the top Bavarian amateur class.

For the 1974/75 season he accepted an offer from Munich and moved to the amateur team of FC Bayern Munich . At the beginning of the season, he played the first round match in the DFB-Pokal competition, which he and his team lost 3-1 at VfB Lübeck on September 8, 1974 . Lengthy injuries prevented his further sporting development, so that when he returned to Passau and after a two-year game break from 1978 he tried a comeback at 1. FC Passau again in the Landesliga Bayern, Staffel Mitte , but could no longer build on his former performance.

Selection / national team

After the selection team of the Bavarian Football Association in 1971 after successes over the selection teams of the Bremen Football Association (1: 2, 6: 0), the Hessian Football Association (4: 2, 3: 1) and in the semi-finals that of the Football and Athletics Association Westphalia (4: 0, 1: 1) had been able to prevail, the man from Passau was one of the final eleven, which on July 11, 1971 in Bayreuth of the selection team of the Lower Rhine Football Association - who opposed the selection team of the Südwestdeutscher Fußballverband (1: 1, 6: 1) with goalkeeper Wolfgang Kneib , defender Roland Kirsch and midfielder Hermann Bitz - faced. The selection entrusted by BFV association trainer Horst Sturz was in the final with goalkeeper Adolf Ruff (SpVgg Bayreuth), Hans Rauh (SpVgg Bayreuth), Heiner Schuhmann (FC Augsburg), Alwin Fink (FC Augsburg), Walter Sohnle (FC Augsburg), Horst Pohl (FC Wacker Munich), Manfred Großler (SpVgg Bayreuth), Günter Gerling (1. FC Nürnberg), Günter Helgert (SpVgg Weiden), Herbert Horn (SpVgg Bayreuth) and Manfred Linz (SpVgg Weiden) competed. Hans Jörg (FC Kempten) and Günther Lindinger (1. FC Passau) were substituted on during the second half. In the third minute of extra time, striker Günter Helgert from SpVgg Weiden decided the final in favor of his national team with his goal to make it 2-1. The Lower Rhine national team had taken a 1-0 lead through Klaus Wunder (MSV Duisburg) in the 29th minute , before Gerling equalized in the 66th minute. With the top performers Heiner Baltes , Reiner Hollmann , Benno Beiroth , Rudolf Seliger , Leonhard Helmreich and Klaus Wunder, the Lower Rhine was an equal opponent in the final.

On May 21, 1970, he played his only international match in Helsinki , which concluded the amateur national team of the DFB against the national team of Finland with a goalless draw. With the Mönchengladbach Bundesliga player Hartwig Bleidick , he formed the defender pair in the team with teammates such as Egon Schmitt , Dieter Zorc , Walter Sohnle , Dieter Mietz , Friedhelm Haebermann , Georg Beichle , Ewald Hammes , Edgar Schneider and Horst Pohl . But then he did not come to any further international appearances.

Others

Lindinger is a pharmacist and founded the “Wittelsbacher Apotheke” in Passau in 1977, the management of which has now passed to his son.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl-Heinz Heimann, Karl-Heinz Jens: Kicker Almanach 1989. P. 121.
  2. ^ Karl-Heinz Heimann, Karl-Heinz Jens: Kicker Almanach 1989. P. 219.
  3. ↑ Karl-Heinz Huba (Ed.): Jahrbuch des Fußballs 1970/71. Copress publishing house. Munich 1971. pp. 365-368.
  4. ↑ plus.pnp.de: Passau Stadt (July 12, 2018) , accessed on January 2, 2019

literature

  • German Football Association (Ed.): Football Yearbook 1980 . Limpert Verlag, Bad Homburg vdH 1980, ISBN 3-7853-1304-7 .
  • Karl-Heinz Heimann, Karl-Heinz Jens: Kicker-Almanach 1989 . Copress-Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-7679-0245-1 .
personal data
SURNAME Lindinger, Günther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lindinger, Eduard Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Passau