Hans-Dieter Busch (soccer player)

Hans-Dieter Busch (born November 15, 1935 ) is a former football player who played in the GDR Oberliga for SC Lokomotive Leipzig , SC Aufbau / 1. FC Magdeburg and played for Lok Stendal . He won the GDR soccer cup twice and played an international match with the GDR junior team.

Until the end of the 1954/55 football season, Hans-Dieter Busch played in the company sports association Motor in the then district town of Oschersleben near Magdeburg , most recently in the third-class district league Magdeburg . He then moved two classes up to the newly founded league club SC Lokomotive Leipzig, which later became FC Sachsen Leipzig via several detours . A few weeks later, although already 20 years old, he was used in an international match of the GDR junior national team. At the end of the 1957 season, Busch celebrated his first major success. On December 22nd, he was with SC Lok in the final of the GDR Cup, which the Leipzig team won 2-1 over SC Empor Rostock with Busch as the central defender . By the end of the 1959 season, Busch had played 87 games in the major league for SC Lok.

In the meantime, an aspiring soccer team had grown up in Magdeburg with the SC Aufbau and in 1959 rose to the top division. To increase the squad for the first season in the GDR football club, coach Fritz Wittenbecher had brought a number of young, talented players to Magdeburg, but still needed an experienced league player who could be easily integrated into the young team. So he arranged that the now 23-year-old Hans-Dieter Busch came back to his home region to build SC. On August 7, 1960, Busch had his first appearance in the Magdeburg ranks in the league game at SC Empor Rostock. On June 13, 1964 he was in a cup final for the second time, the opponent of the SC construction was the SC Leipzig (not identical to Busch's old club SC Lok). This time Busch was again in the central defense and won the cup again after a 3-2 win. In the subsequent competition for the European Cup Winners' Cup, Busch played once in the first leg of the quarter-finals against English cup winners West Ham United (0: 1). Busch missed the second Magdeburg Cup victory in 1965, because this time he was not called up in the final. A year later, Busch rose with the newly founded 1. FC Magdeburg in the second-rate GDR league , was involved in twelve league games there and returned to the league after a year. In the new league season he was used on March 5, 1967 for the last time in a competitive game at 1. FC Magdeburg. He had played 131 competitive games in Magdeburg, 119 of them in the league. In the following season 1967/68 he played, now 32 years old, again 24 league games at Lok Stendal. Between 1955 and 1968 he played 218 games in the top GDR soccer class.

After retiring as an active soccer player, he went back to the roots of his career and in 1968 he became a coach for the third-rate district division Motor / Vorwärts Oschersleben. In 1972 he led the team to the district championship and the GDR league. In the same year he went back to Leipzig, where he was assistant coach at the successor to his previous club, now BSG Chemie Leipzig.