Helmut Stein

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Helmut Stein in 1970

Helmut Stein (born November 9, 1942 in Aschersleben ) was a soccer player in the GDR soccer association . In its highest division, the GDR Oberliga , he played for SC Chemie Halle , Halleschen FC Chemie and FC Carl Zeiss Jena . With FC Carl Zeiss he was twice champion and once cup winner. Stein made 22 international matches with the senior national team .

Career as a soccer player

SC Chemie Halle / FC Chemie

Helmut Stein began his football career at BSG Motor Aschersleben . There he last played in 1961 in the third class II. GDR league . Between August 1960 and June 1961 he had played six international matches with the GDR junior national team, in which he had mostly played as a right winger. During the summer break of the 1961/62 season, which was running over 39 rounds due to the switch to the summer-spring rhythm, Stein moved to the GDR upper division club SC Chemie Halle, in whose catchment area Aschersleben was. Werner Basel , who had migrated to Hohenschönhausen, left a gap in the attack at SC Chemie , and his successor Heinz Walter was injured for a long time. At the first league game after the summer break on August 26, 1961, Stein made his debut in the league. In the game Motor Zwickau - SC Chemie (0: 4) he was used as a half-left striker and essentially kept this position until the end of the season. In the 26 point games played up to then, Stein was called up 20 times and scored seven goals, with which he became the second best shooter in Halle behind Günter Busch (13 goals). In the cup final on June 10, 1962, which SC Chemie won 3-1 over SC Dynamo Berlin, Stein was not used.

By contrast, Stein remained a regular at SC Chemie until 1966, but increasingly moved to the right attacking side. In 1962 he continued his international career in the youth national team, for which he played twelve internationals until 1968 and scored six goals. On an African tour of the senior national team, Stein already played two senior internationals, on December 9, 1962 against Mali and on December 16 against Guinea. In both matches (2-1 and 3-2 for the GDR) he was used as a substitute. In the 1963/64 season, the SC Chemie suffered from persistent storm weakness and finally rose with only 24 goals scored. Although Stein had only played 20 of the 26 point games, he was Halle's top scorer with six goals. In the second-rate GDR league , Stein completed only 21 out of 30 point games in 1964/65, but with his 16 goals he was one of the most powerful indoor players who returned to the league after just one year. In 1965/66 Stein played his last season in Halle, in the course of which the football section of SC Chemie was spun off into the newly founded Halleschen FC Chemie. Stein was used again as an attacker in 23 point games and scored five goals.

FC Carl Zeiss Jena

Stein's international career has since stagnated. After his A-internationals in 1962, he was only used in the youth team, for which he was slowly getting too old at the age of 24. In order to get back into the international focus, Stein moved after 89 league games with 24 goals at the beginning of the 1966/67 season from Halle to runner-up FC Carl Zeiss Jena. In his first season in Jena, Stein only missed five point games and displaced Dieter Lange as a regular on the half-left attacking side. In the 1967/68 and 1969/70 seasons, Stein was part of the Jena championship team with 24 and 25 appearances and, in 1969/70, together with Rainer Schlutter , was the top scorer of FC Carl Zeiss with nine goals.

After a six-year break, Stein was re-included in the senior national team in 1969, having only played the B-international match GDR - Hungary (2-1) in 1967 and was used in the GDR Olympic team . In the World Cup qualifier GDR - Italy (2-2), he celebrated his A-international comeback as a substitute. After that, he was a permanent member of the A-selection team until 1971, of which he was also the captain for a time. On November 3, 1973, he played his last international match in a 4-1 away win against Albania. He had made a total of 22 full internationals, in which he scored three goals. There are also three qualifying games between 1967 and 1971 with the GDR Olympic selection with two goals.

In most of his international matches, Stein was in midfield, and at FC Carl Zeiss he also moved back mainly to midfield from 1969 onwards. After missing the cup final that was victorious for Jena (2-1 over Dynamo Dresden) in 1972, he was finally able to receive the FDGB Cup in 1974 after three attempts. In the 3-1 win over Dynamo Dresden again, Stein was substituted on in the 68th minute. From 1973 on he became the standard libero of the Jenaer. In 1975/76 Stein tackled his last league season. At the age of 33, he played 16 more point games until matchday 20, scoring three goals as a libero. His last league game for FC Carl Zeiss Jena was on March 27, 1976 when FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt played FC Carl Zeiss (2-0). It was his 298th competitive game for Jena, the 215th in the GDR league. He scored 74 competitive goals, 52 of them in the league. Together with his time in Halle, Stein is a 304-time top division player with 76 goals. Stein's career ended rather abruptly, in May 1976 he was drafted into a six-month training as a reserve officer in the GDR People's Army , thereby ending his career as a competitive athlete.

Coaching career

Stein was officially adopted from the ranks of the Carl-Zeiss team only after his return from the NVA at the beginning of the second half of the 1976/77 season on February 19, 1977. At the farewell, it was also officially announced that Stein and Roland Ducke were now assisting Jena head coach Hans Meyer . Stein worked as an assistant coach under the head coaches Hans Meyer, Bernd Stange and Dietmar Pfeifer until the 1984/85 season . He thus had a share in winning the FDGB Cup in 1980 and the subsequent European Cup season, in which the Jena team advanced to the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup. In the summer of 1985 Stein followed his "old" head coach Hans Meyer to FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt . There Stein assisted two seasons and then moved to the GDR league club BSG Motor Suhl for the 1987/88 season . The BSG, playing in the major league in the 1984/85 season , had almost been passed into the district league in the following league season and also took a rather disappointing 11th place in the league table in 1986/87 . Although Stein only managed tenth place in the table in his first season, things went much better for Suhl in the 1988/89 season. Although you could never really jeopardize the promoted progress in Bischofswerda , at the end of the season they finished third in league season B. In the 1989/90 season , which was of course also characterized by the political changes in the country, things went rather badly for the Suhler. So after ten matchdays they were on the penultimate place in the league season B, which ultimately led to the dismissal of Helmut Stein. As a result, the former selection player no longer trained a team in higher-class football, he found a job at the beverage manufacturer Coca-Cola in Erfurt.

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  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of April 12, 1976 p. 4
  2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of February 21, 1977 p. 4
  3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of June 6, 1985 p. 6
  4. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of August 11, 1987 p. 6
personal data
SURNAME Stein, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Aschersleben