Horst Strahl

Horst Strahl (born January 11, 1936 ) is a former German football player who played 33 games in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football, for SC Chemie Halle , where he scored eight goals.

Athletic career

Horst Strahl began his career in high-class football in 1955 as a 19-year-old with the second-class GDR league club SC Wissenschaft Halle . Its development was slow at first. When a transition round to transition to the calendar year rhythm was played in the fall of 1955, Strahl was only used once in the 13-game round in the GDR league. His three point game stakes in the 1956 season were still manageable. It was not until 1957 that he was able to improve and came to 14 missions in the 26 point games, in which he also scored three goals. Ray made his breakthrough in the game year 1958, in which he only missed three point games but was the top scorer of his team with thirteen goals. The came after a merger with the SC Chemie Halle in the second half of the season as SC Chemie II.

The merger helped Strahl to his first two league games in 1958, which he played as a striker for the 1st team of SC Chemie in the last two league games. After the descent of SC Chemie, Strahl returned to the GDR league, but made it to the regulars there. He was used as a left winger in 22 out of 26 league games at the sports club and was once again accurate with eight goals. In his second league season in 1960, Strahl started cautiously, was only called up in the fourth league game, did not play again until the second half of the season and finally made 16 league games and four goals. In 1961, GDR football returned to the summer-spring game rhythm, with a 39-game season that lasted from March 1961 to June 1962. In the first third of the season, with short interruptions in eleven point games, Ray was used as a striker on the left wing. After the summer break, Gerhard Schmidt , who had last played point games for the 1st team of SC Chemie in 1958, was reactivated. Coach Horst Sokoll used him instead of Strahl on the left wing, who only came four times in the league for the rest of the season.

In the summer of 1962 Horst Strahl ended his career in higher-class football and in 1963 joined the third-class BSG Motor Ammendorf as a recreational footballer . In 1966 he became district champion with the Ammendorf team , and in 1970 he finally retired from football.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1955–1963. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 477.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 320.
• DFSF (Ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949–1991 (Volume 8). Berlin 2010, p. 342.

Web links

• Horst Strahl in the database of the German Football Association