Heinz Dietzsch

Heinz Dietzsch (born August 8, 1947 in Elsterberg ) was a football player in the GDR . He played for Motor / Sachsenring Zwickau and FC Vorwärts Berlin / Frankfurt in the Oberliga , the highest GDR soccer class. Dietzsch became football champions with FC Vorwärts and cup winners with Sachsenring Zwickau.

Soccer career

Premier league debut in Zwickau

Dietzsch grew in the Thuringian Elsterberg on, completed after his school teaching a locksmith and played at the Sports Association (BSG) unit Elsterberg football. From 1967 he played for the BSG Sachsenring in the GDR league. The 1.78 m tall Dietzsch played his first two league games in the spring of 1967. On April 15, 1967, the 20th game of the season, he gave his first division debut as a left winger in the league point game Motor Zwickau - Hallescher FC Chemie (4-0). After two more league games and a European Cup game against Torpedo Moscow in the first half of the 1967/68 season as a midfielder, he was drafted into the army.

FC Vorwärts in Berlin and Frankfurt (Oder)

The 20-year-old became aware of the 20-year-old through selection games of the Vorwärts army sports association , their focus club FC Vorwärts Berlin, and included him in the squad for the 1968/69 season for the second team playing in the third-rate district league . With her, Dietzsch rose to the GDR league at the end of the season. In addition to the district league games, he was also used on the 5th and 18th matchday in the league team, once as a left winger and once in defense. With these two games he became the GDR champion in 1968/69, as FC Vorwärts had won the championship at the end of the season. During the 1969/70 season, Dietzsch played again without exception in the 2nd team and thus also missed the 1970 cup win by the Berliners. For Dietzsch, the 1970/71 and 1971/72 seasons were dominated by a reserve player for the army club's top division team, who was relocated to the Oder in the summer of 1971 as FC Vorwärts Frankfurt . Of his 23 league point games in those years, he played only nine over the full 90 minutes. Usually he was used in midfield. However, he was able to play two of the six games in the 1970/71 European Cup Winners' Cup, including the encounter between FC Vorwärts and Benfica Lisbon, the first European Cup game to be decided by a penalty shoot-out (5-3 for Lisbon). Dietzsch completed his last league game for FC Vorwärts as a left midfielder on matchday 24 of the 1971/72 season, May 6, 1972 in the match between FCV and FC Carl Zeiss Jena (1: 1). Within four years he had made 25 league games for FC Vorwärts, scoring three goals.

Return to Zwickau

In the summer of 1972 Dietzsch returned to Zwickau and joined his former company sports association, which has now been named after its sponsoring company Sachsenring Zwickau. Dietzsch was used from the first match day of the 1972/73 season in the league team, in which a gap had arisen after the departure of Albert Beier . While Heinz Krieger took over the position of Beier as a stopper, Dietzsch was deployed instead of Krieger in the left midfield. There Dietzsch was able to establish himself permanently and completed 23 league point games by the end of the season. The midfield remained the domain of Dietzsch for the next few years, who until 1977 never completed less than 22 out of 26 possible point games in the league. The years between 1973 and 1976 were among the most successful of his time in Zwickau. In the 1973/74 season he was the top scorer at Sachsenring with eleven goals and the top penalty taker in the league with nine penalty goals.

The season 1974/75 he played completely with all 26 first division appearances and with six championship goals he was the second top scorer of his team behind Joachim Schykowski (11). In addition, Dietzsch reached the final of the GDR soccer cup with Sachsenring Zwickau . On the way there he had played all cup games, scoring the winning goal in the first leg of the semi-final with a penalty to make it 1-0 over Wismut Aue. In the final, Zwickau had to face the high favorites Dynamo Dresden, but after a dramatic course of the game they finally won the cup after a 4-3 win on penalties . This time Dietzsch was called up in the central midfield, prepared the interim 1: 1 with a technical masterpiece and won his second title after the championship in 1969. Dietzsch was also involved in the following eight games in the competition for the European Cup Winners' Cup. The Sachsenring team surprisingly made it to the semi-finals and eliminated such prominent teams as Fiorentina and Celtic Glasgow. In the second leg of the first round he contributed a goal to the 2-0 win against Panathinaikos Athens.

During the 1977/78 season, Dietzsch's senior league career came to an end. He was only used in 14 point games, then he only played six times in the first half of the 1978/79 season. His last league game took place on December 16, 1978, in which he suffered a 4-0 defeat in front of his own audience against 1. FC Lok Leipzig as a central midfielder. This game was the 168th league game for Dietzsch, of which he had played 143 for Zwickau and 25 for FC Vorwärts. As an attacking midfielder, he scored 41 championship goals, 38 for Zwickau alone. After a year break, Dietzsch played a few more games with the second division progress Weida and then finally ended his career as a football player.

Trainer

After his active time, Dietzsch initially trained some lower-class football teams. After German reunification, he accepted the offer from the north Bavarian club ATS Hof-West and worked there as a football coach until 1993. In April 2007 Dietzsch took over the post of head coach at the upper division FSV Zwickau, the successor club of his former sports club Sachsenring. He took over the team on the relegation-threatened place 14 and led them to the safe 9th place until the end of the season. After four defeats in a row and the last place in the table in September 2007, Dietzsch was replaced by the new coach Peter Keller .

Professional career

After completing his 18-month military service, he became a professional soldier as a player at FC Vorwärts and remained so until the end of his career with the army club in the summer of 1972. After he had become a member of the company sports association of the Zwickau car manufacturer Sachsenring , he received there according to the customs of the GDR Football league a pro forma job. After the change in economic conditions after the German reunification, he was advertising consultant with a Zwickau display publishing .

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 .