Gerd-Reiner Milek

Gerd-Reiner Milek (born February 10, 1944 ) is a former German soccer player. For the 1st team of Wismut Gera he played 153 point games from 1965 to 1976, five of them in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football .

Athletic career

Originally from Silesia , Milek began his football career in Hoyerswerda . For the 1965/66 season he joined the second-rate GDR league team of the company sports community (BSG) Wismut Gera. With 18 point games in 30 rounds, he immediately played his way into the expanded player base and thus had a significant share in the team's rise to the GDR top division. In the league, Milek could only play five point games, as he could not be used after the 10th game day due to a hamstring until the end of the season. In addition to an attempt as a defender, he was then used in the attack. The BSG Wismut had to relegate from the league again after a year and then played again in the GDR league until 1977. After Milek was only able to play eleven GDR league games due to his injury in 1967/68, he swung himself up as a regular player in the two following 30-round seasons with 22 and 24 appearances respectively. In 1970 he was called up to serve in the army for 18 months after completing seven league games in November. In April 1972 he was released and began to play again for the BSG Wismut Gera for the 1972/73 season. By 1976 he played 66 of a total of 88 point games played within four seasons. 1974 and 1975 Milek helped BSG Wismut to win the season, but the team could not prevail in the promotion games. In the 1974/75 season he scored his most point goals for Wismut Gera with nine hits, after he had previously only scored four goals. In his last season 1975/76 he came in twelve completed point games again to four hits.

After the end of his football career, he worked as a junior coach at Wismut Gera. From 1987 to 1989 he was chairman of the company sports association, then he took over the chairmanship of the Gera City Sports Association. He also became a member of the NOFV game committee and safety officer of the German Football Association .

literature

• German sport echo : born 1965–1976. ISSN  0323-8628 .
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 321.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 316.

Web links

• Gerd-Reiner Milek in the database of the German Football Association