Gerhard Watzlaw

Gerhard Watzlaw (born January 20, 1941 ) is a former German football player who played for SC Turbine Erfurt in 1963 and 1964 in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football .

Athletic career

Before Watzlaw made his debut in the GDR league, he played until 1963 with the company sports club (BSG) Glückauf in Bleicherode, Thuringia, in the third-class second GDR league . At the age of 22 he moved to the regional soccer center, the SC Turbine Erfurt season, for the 1963/64 season. Watzlaw came from the 5th game day on in the league and was usually called up as a left runner , a position on which had been experimented continuously in the preseason. He played 18 of the 26 league games and scored his only league goal on matchday 7 in the match between SC Turbine and SC Leipzig with the equalizer to make it 1-1. The SC Turbine ended the season as relegated and played in the GDR league in 1964/65 . There Watzlaw completed 28 of the 30 league games played and was thus significantly involved in the immediate resurgence of Erfurt. For the new league season he was again intended as a regular player, but was not used. In the 1966/67 season he played for the East German league promoted Motor Nordhausen-West and played 26 of the 30 league games. The BSG Motor was only able to stay in the GDR league for a year and was relegated back to the district league . Gerhard Watzlaw did not return to higher-class football, where he only spent three seasons and only played 18 major league and 54 GDR league games. At the fourth-class BSG activist in Bischofferode , he appeared in later years as a trainer.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1963–1967. ISSN  0323-8628
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 312.
• DSFS (ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949–1991 (Volume 8). Berlin 2011, p. 359.

Web links

• Gerhard Watzlaw in the database of the German Football Association