Karl-Heinz Brandt (soccer player)

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Karl-Heinz Brandt (born October 13, 1935 ) was a soccer player in the GDR soccer game . For the SC Lok Leipzig and the SC Turbine Erfurt , he played in the GDR Oberliga , the top division. He won the GDR soccer cup in 1957 with the SC Lok Leipzig . Brandt played international matches with the junior and B national teams of the GDR.

Football career

Brandt began his football career in 1950 with the company sports community (BSG) Turbine Weimar . There he became a junior national player when he was appointed to the squad of the newly established GDR junior national team in early 1954. From the first international matches of the junior selection, he played six encounters until October 1954, in which he was usually used as a center-back.

In the summer of 1954, a soccer section was founded at the Leipzig Sports University DHfK , with the help of which a top team for GDR soccer was to be developed. With players from all over the GDR , two teams were formed that were integrated into the game operations of the second-rate GDR league . Brandt belonged to the playing group that was incorporated into the DHfK II team. Due to the lack of success, the project was discontinued after the first half of the 1954/55 season. While most of the players were transferred from DHfK II to the newly founded SC Vorwärts Leipzig , which took over the GDR league space, Brandt moved to the upper division SC Lok Leipzig.

At SC Lok on February 20, 1955, he got the chance to establish himself in the elite league. Coach Alfred Kunze put him in the match between SC Chemie Halle-Leuna and SC Lok (1-0) as a central defender. Brandt took the opportunity and immediately played his way into the team, in which he played all games until the end of the season, later as a left defender. In September 1955 he came again to selection apprenticeships for the GDR, when he was involved in the B international game GDR - Romania (3-0). At SC Lok Brandt defended his regular position as a left defender until the end of the 1959 season. In 1956 he completed the two trade fair cup games against Lausanne-Sports with the Leipzig city selection (6: 3, 3: 7). In both matches he played on his regular position. On September 22, 1957 he won the GDR soccer cup with SC Lok with a 2-1 win after extra time over SC Empor Rostock. A year later, on December 14, 1958, he was again in the cup final with Lok Leipzig , in which he played an exceptional center-back. The Leipzig team lost again this time in extra time with 1: 2 against SC Einheit Dresden. After 111 league games and three goals, Brandt left SC Lok Leipzig at the end of the 1959 season.

In early 1960 he joined the SC Turbine Erfurt, which had been relegated from the league in the previous season. With 20 league appearances in the 26 rounds of the GDR league season, Brandt contributed to the immediate resurgence of Erfurt. In the 1961/62 season, the schedule was changed back to the summer-spring rhythm, and the league ran over 39 rounds to align. First, Brandt was used from the first day of play in the league team and played 14 point games up to the 15th round. Brandt then disappeared from the league for two years. It was not until the 5th matchday of the 1963/64 season that he returned to the league team of SC Turbine Erfurt and played all of the point games until the end of the season, except for one encounter.

After the end of the 1963/64 season, Turbine was again determined to be relegated. Brandt took this as an opportunity to end his career as a high-performance athlete after another 35 league games with one goal. He returned to his homeland and rejoined his former Weimar company sports association, which in the meantime competed as BSG Motor. There Brandt played in the GDR league until 1968.

Footnotes

  1. ^ In 1956 the calendar year schedule was introduced in GDR football.

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personal data
SURNAME Brandt, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1935