Heinz Leib

Heinz Leib (born January 16, 1927 ) is a former German soccer player and soccer coach. As a football coach, he was responsible for Motor Steinach in the GDR league in the 1960s .

Athletic career

Soccer player

The 23-year-old Heinz Leib experienced the most successful soccer season to date for the Thuringian sports community with SG Lauscha in 1949/50. As runner-up they qualified for the newly created second-class DS league . The team then won the Thuringian Football Cup with a 9-1 victory over SG Schmerbach. This victory led to participation in the DS Cup , which SG Lauscha won with a 1-0 victory over SG Vorwärts Wismar . Leib acted as a half-right striker in the final.

In his first league season 1950/51 he was used 14 times in the 18 league games and scored five goals. In April 1951, Leib was taken over by the newly founded company sports association (BSG) Chemie Lauscha, which ended the season in eighth place. In the following three seasons Leib played all point games and was the top scorer in league season 1 in 1952 and 1954 with 17 and 21 goals respectively. After the 1954/55 season a league reform was carried out, which chemistry Lauscha fell victim to. As eighth in the table, the team had to relegate to the new third-class II. GDR league . In the last second-class season, Leib had played 21 championship games again and was the team's best scorer for the fourth time with 13 goals. This made Leib the most successful player in Lauscha with 111 league appearances and 69 goals in the four second division seasons. After the end of the 1954/55 season he left the BSG Chemie Lauscha and became a soccer coach.

His successful time in Lauscha also included a game with the Thuringia national team and in 1951 he was appointed to the squad of the GDR core football team, which played several international comparisons in preparation for future official international matches.

Trainer

His first coaching position was in 1956 (introduction of the calendar year game rhythm) the fourth class BSG Motor Steinach. There he initially worked as a player coach and led BSG Motor to the district championship and promotion to the II. GDR League. As early as 1958 he achieved promotion to the first GDR league with Steinach . In the 1959 season he played his last 23 second division games with Steinach and scored his last ten goals in the GDR league. After two more seasons in the II. GDR League succeeded after the 1961/62 season (return to the summer-spring rhythm) again the return to the second division. There Leib drove his team to march through the GDR league and thus to a surprising promotion to the GDR upper league. He managed to keep Steinach in the top division of GDR football for two seasons and during this time to shape his player Werner Linß into a national player. After the 1964/65 season, Leib and his team had to return to the GDR League. In 1966, as second in the season, this only just missed the rise, for Leib it meant saying goodbye to Motor Steinach.

For the 1966/67 season, Heinz Leib moved to the Erfurt district league team Motor Rudisleben , who had also just missed promotion as second in the table. In two seasons, Leib did not succeed in helping Rudisleben to gain promotion, so that he left there again in 1968.

After Heinz Leib had not been involved in high-class football for 13 years, he returned to Motor Steinach in 1981. The Steinacher had so far for several years oscillated between second and third division and played in the 1981/82 season again in the third division district league Suhl. Leib lived up to his reputation as a re-promotion coach and brought Motor Steinach back to the GDR league within a year. However, the team did not have the quality for the second division and was at the end of November 1982 for weeks on a relegation zone. After a 3-0 defeat against Motor Nordhausen on matchday 11, Heinz Leib was replaced by his predecessor Günter Queck two matchdays before the end of the first half of the season . In 1983, Leib became a coach at the Suhl district division club BSG EIO Sonneberg . Under his leadership, the Sonneberger improved from twelfth place in the previous year at the end of the 1983/84 season to ninth place, but had to relegate to the fourth-class district class due to the reduction of the district league to one season. In 1985 Leib brought the BSG EIO back into the district league, but then finally said goodbye to higher-class football.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1950–1982. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 289.
• DFSF (Ed.): DDR Chronicle - DDR Football 1949–1991 (Volumes 1–7). Berlin 2007/11.

Web links

• Heinz Leib in the database of the German Football Association