Jürgen Halbe

Jürgen Halbe (born January 9, 1953 ) is a former German soccer player who , in 1979, the last year of the German national soccer team of amateurs , played five international matches in midfield and attack.

career

After the A-youth station SSV 08 Bergneustadt (1969-71), Halbe gained playing experience at TuS Lindlar (1975/76) and VfL Cologne 1899 (1976/77) for the first time in the senior division in the higher-class Mittelrhein association league .

From 1977 to 1980, the offensive player Jürgen Halbe was an active member of the SC Rot-Weiß Oberhausen . In his first season with the "Kleeblatt-Elf" from the Niederrhein Stadium , 1977/78, he and his teammates took second place in the Niederrhein Association League. He had scored seven goals in 27 association games. In the competition for the German amateur championship one was eliminated against Eintracht Kreuznach. In his second season with RW Oberhausen, 1978/79 , he contributed in 34 league games with ten goals to win the title and promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga . After the success against SSV Ulm, he failed with RWO in the games for the amateur championship in 1979 at Hertha Zehlendorf. On July 28, 1979, under coach Manfred Rummel, the start in the 2nd Bundesliga succeeded with a 2-1 win in the stadium at the zoo against Wuppertaler SV. At the side of teammates like goalkeeper Wilfried Mackscheidt , Dieter Hentschel and Ernst Savkovic , they achieved relegation with 15th place . Halbe had scored 13 goals in 35 league games, some of them with converted penalties. Also in the German Cup in 1979 were half and his teammates RWO been successful. About the stations ETSV Landshut (5: 1 afterwards), Fortuna Düsseldorf Amateure with the talents Thomas Allofs , Josef Weikl and Ralf Dusend (3: 2), SC Freiburg with Günter Wienhold , Karl-Heinz Wöhrlin , Joachim Löw and Peter Zacher (in the replay n. E. 2-3 in Freiburg), VfL Osnabrück (with Gerd-Volker Schock ) in the round of 16 on April 27, 1979 with a 1-0 home win, Halbe and colleagues played their way up to the quarter-finals. On May 26, 1979 RWO lost the game with 1: 2 goals at Eintracht Frankfurt. Bernd Nickel scored the winning goal for the Hessian Bundesliga club in the 70th minute.

In the first half of the 1978/79 season, on May 9, 1979, the attacker made his debut under the then responsible DFB coach Erich Ribbeck in the DFB selection of the amateur national team. In the 1: 3 defeat in Le Havre against France, he stormed alongside Hans-Otto Jordan and Ralf Obermüller . In the first half of the 1979/80 season he played in four international matches against Finland (2-0), Norway (0-2), Finland (0-0) and on October 31 in Osnabrück against Soviet Union B (1-3) for further operations. The matches against Finland and Norway took place as part of the Olympic qualification.

Jürgen Halbe's appointments ended with the fifth amateur international match in Osnabrück. With the 0-1 defeat on November 14, 1979 in Baunatal against Norway, the German amateur national team gambled away the chance to qualify for the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow. The history of the amateur football team in Baunatal ended with the 154th international match.

For the 1980/81 season, Halbe joined the amateur team of 1. FC Cologne. He immediately won the championship in the Oberliga Nordrhein with the amateurs of the "Billy Goat Elf". The competition for the German amateur championship in 1981 became the highlight . After successes against Viktoria Griesheim and 1. FC Paderborn in the semifinals, the amateurs of 1. FC Köln - with teammates like Bernd Grabosch and Rainer Nicot - also sat in the final with 2-0 goals against FC St. Pauli - Walter Frosch , Jens-Peter Box , Joachim Philipkowski - and brought the German amateur championship to Cologne.

In the 1982 DFB Cup , Halbe and 1.FC Köln's amateur eleven were successful over OSC Bremerhaven (3: 2 n.V. with a half goal), while Bayer 04 Leverkusen defied a third at home on October 11, 1981 : 3-draw after extra time and were only eliminated from the cup in the replay in November with a 5-0 away defeat.

literature

• Karl-Heinz Heimann, Karl-Heinz Jens: Kicker-Almanach 1989. Copress-Verlag. Munich 1988. ISBN 3-7679-0245-1 .
• Markus Fiesseler: 100 years of football in North Rhine-Westphalia. A chronicle in tables. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 1997. ISBN 3-89784-128-2 .