Jürgen Achtel

Jürgen Achtel (born December 24, 1950 in Magdeburg ) is a former German soccer player in the GDR upper league , the highest soccer class of the East German soccer association. With 1. FC Magdeburg he was two GDR champions and one cup winner .

Athletic career

Eighth belonged to the GDR youth national team, which was unofficial runner-up in the UEFA youth tournament on May 26, 1969 after a 1-1 draw against Bulgaria by drawing lots. Eighth, who came to 1. FC Magdeburg from the offspring of the BSG unit Magdeburg in 1966 and had learned the trade of mechanical engineering, played a total of six games with the junior team.

His first competitive appearance in the GDR league team of Magdeburg he completed on October 3, 1971, the 5th match day of the 1971/72 season. He was in the 66th minute of the encounter FC Carl Zeiss Jena-1. FC Magdeburg (1: 1) came on for defender Klaus Decker . The position of defender will continue in the future, eighth, who established himself in his first league season with 18 point games in the team and celebrated his first major success with the championship title. In the following season he was part of the regular squad of 1. FCM from the first day of the game, playing 21 of the 26 point games. Although the Magdeburg team were unable to defend their championship title, they were harmed in the GDR Cup competition. On May 1, 1973 1. FC Magdeburg with Jürgen Achtel as left defender was in the cup final against 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig and won 3-2. Then 1. FC Magdeburg started its most successful season to date. Not only was he GDR champion for the second time, but he was also the only GDR team to win a European Cup after beating AC Milan 2-0 in the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup . However, it was a bad season for eighth. He was only involved with eight league games in the championship title, in the European Cup competition he only played two games, in the first round in a 0-0 win against NAC Breda and 0-2 against Banik Ostrava in the round of 16. With that he also missed the great triumph of the European Cup.

The encounter Hansa Rostock-1. FC Magdeburg on February 20, 1974 (18th matchday, 2-2) was eighth of the last league game. In this game he suffered a double fracture of the tibia and fibula and then had to end his career due to injury after five operations. During his short career he had played 47 league games, ten times in the national and six times in the international cup competition. Then he played until 1976 only in the 2nd team of the 1st FCM. Before the league game FCM - Hansa Rostock on September 10, 1976, he was adopted as an FCM player.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1969–1976. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 48.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 332.

Web links

• Jürgen Achtel in the database of the German Football Association