Helmut Friedel (soccer player)

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Helmut Friedel (born October 19, 1949 in Böhlen ) is a former German football player who was active for Chemie Böhlen in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of GDR football, in 1977/78 .

Athletic career

At the age of eleven, Helmut Friedel was accepted into the youth department of the company sports association (BSG) Chemie Böhlen in 1960 . From 1969 to 1970 he completed an 18-month military service in Meiningen and during this time played with the 2nd team of the army sports association ASG Vorwärts Meiningen in the third-class district league Suhl .

After his discharge from the National People's Army , he returned to Chemie Böhlen and played with the first men's team for the first time in the 1970/71 season in the second-rate GDR league . In 30 league games he was called up 14 times and scored his first goal in the GDR-wide league. After he had only played seven league games in 1971/72, he moved to the 2nd team of 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig , which was also represented in the GDR league, for the 1972/73 season . After only nine league appearances, he returned to Chemie Böhlen at the beginning of the 1973/74 season. There, too, he initially only played in nine league games, but was then used in seven of the eight league promotion games in which Bohlen missed promotion. While Friedel played his way into the player base with 17 appearances in 22 league games in 1974/75, he was only a substitute again in the following two seasons with a total of only eleven league games. In 1977 the BSG Chemie again took part in the promotion round, and again Friedel took part in seven qualifying games.

This time the promotion to the league succeeded, and Friedel was accepted into the league collective for the 1977/78 season. In contrast to his disappointing experiences in the second-rate GDR league, he was in the league games from the start and made 20 appearances as a midfielder by the end of the season. Although he was back in the squad for the 1978/79 league season, he was never used in the league. After two seasons, Chemie Böhlen had to relegate back to the GDR league. In the GDR league season 1979/80 Friedel played four point games, then he did not appear in the higher league operation. There his balance is: 20 times Oberliga (no goal), 71 times GDR league (seven goals) and 14 times promotion round (no goal).

After Friedel had finished his career as an active soccer player, he started a career as a soccer coach. First he was a junior coach in Böhlen until 1996, after which he coached lower-class clubs in Hausdorf , Stötteritz and Liebertwolkwitz .

literature

  • German sport echo : born 1970–1980. 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. 299.
  • DFSF (Ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949–1991 (Volume 8). Berlin 2011, p. 170.

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personal data
SURNAME Friedel, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Bohlen , GDR