Jochen Habekuss

Jochen Habekuß (born July 18, 1950 in Schkopau ) was a soccer goalkeeper in Schkopau. There he played for BSG Chemie Buna Schkopau for one season in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of the GDR Football Association .

Habekuss joined the company sports association (BSG) Chemie Buna Schkopau on July 1, 1961 when he was just eleven and became a goalkeeper there. After he had last played with the men's team in the third-class district league , he had to do his army service from November 1969 to April 1971, which he did with the army sports community Vorwärts Leipzig in the second-class GDR league . spent. In 1973 he became district champion with BSG Chemie and rose with the team in the GDR league. At the end of the 1970s he was elected team captain, which he held until 1985. In the 1980/81 season, Chemie Buna Schkopau surprisingly won promotion to the league. The 1.78 m tall Habekuss was the only player who had played all 22 point and eight promotion games. Also in the league season 1981/82 the BSG went with the meanwhile 31-year-old Habekuss as regular goalkeeper, he was in 23 of the 26 point games in the goal. Habekuss could not prevent his team from having conceded 77 goals at the end of the season, the worst goal record of all 14 teams and consequently had to relegate from the league after a year. After another five seasons in the GDR league, Habekuss ended his career as a goalkeeper in 1987.

Then Habekuss, who was a professional instructor, became a junior trainer in Schkopau. From 1995 to 1997 he coached the upper league and later association league team of the Schkopau successor club SV Merseburg 99 . He then became a junior coach again at SV 99 and was also involved in the youth soccer team at TSV Leuna . After the fall of the Wall in 1989 , Habekuss changed his job and went into the catering trade .

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 .
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 .
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .