Gottfried Eberlein

Gottfried Eberlein (born May 31, 1936 ) was a football player in the GDR league . There he was active for SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt and BSG Wismut Aue . With the SC Wismut he was GDR champion in 1959, for the GDR B national team he played an international match.

Athletic career

The 22-year-old Eberlein came to Aue- based upper division club SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt in 1959 to rejuvenate the outdated attack with Siegfried Kaiser (33), Willy Tröger (31) and Kurt Viertel (30). After some experiments in the storm, coach Gerhard Hofmann Eberlein started on the 8th league matchday. In the match between activist Brieske-Senftenberg and SC Wismut (1: 2) on April 26, 1959, Eberlein played on the right attacking side. Thanks to the failures of Klaus Zink and Siegfried Kaiser, he made eleven league appearances in his first league season, in which he demonstrated his accuracy with his five goals. He scored his first league goal on matchday 12 in the away game at Dynamo Berlin (1-1). At the end of the season he was able to celebrate winning the GDR championship with his team. With his three games and two goals, Eberlein was also instrumental in reaching the final of the GDR soccer cup . Two games were necessary because the first encounter against Dynamo Berlin ended 0-0. In this game Eberlein was not involved, but was in the second game as a center forward on the field. SC Wismut did not succeed in the double , the Berliners won 3-2. While Eberlein was not used in the 1959 European Cup matches of SC Wismut, he had international probation with the B national team. On September 23, 1959, he was also called up as a center forward in the encounter between Czechoslovakia and GDR (0-0). It was his only international game.

It was not until 1962/63, when the football season had meanwhile been switched to the summer-spring rhythm, that Eberlein made it into the starting line-up of the Wismut team. Usually called up as a center forward, he completed 24 of the 26 played point games, with his goal scoring with four hits within the framework. Even after SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt was dissolved in the summer of 1963 and the football section was transferred to the Wismut Aue company sports association , Eberlein was able to maintain his place in the regular eleven in the following years. In the 1968/69 season, the now 32-year-old managed to play all 26 point games once, but for the first time remained as a regular player without a championship goal, although he was still mainly used in attack. Eberlein played his last league season in the 1969/70 season, when he played 19 point games. However, he was only a substitute player, only completing three matches over the full playing time as a left winger. He scored his last point goal on May 2, 1970 in a 3-2 win at Stahl Riesa. On May 31, 1970 Eberlein played his last game for Wismut Aue when he was used as a striker for 67 minutes in the encounter on the 26th and final day of the season between FC Karl-Marx-Stadt and Wismut Aue (1: 2).

Between 1959 and 1970 Eberlein completed 207 league games for SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt and BSG Wismut Aue, in which he scored 27 goals. He also played in 26 GDR Cup games and scored three goals there. As a recreational footballer, he then played for BSG Aufbau Aue-Bernsbach in the third-class district league Karl-Marx-Stadt .

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 .
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 .
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .

Web links

• Gottfried Eberlein in the database of the German Football Association
• Statistics at www.bsg-wismut-aue.de