Konrad Wagner (soccer player)
Konrad Wagner (born September 25, 1932 - † November 25, 1996 ) was a soccer player in the GDR. For progress Meerane and the SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt and the BSG Wismut Aue he played in the GDR upper league . With the Wismut teams, he was three times GDR champion and won the GDR soccer cup once .
Athletic career
Konrad Wagner came to SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt in the spring of 1955 from progress Meerane, where he had already played 12 games in the GDR league, the highest East German football class, in the 1954/55 season. There he initially only played in the reserve team. On June 19, 1955, his first game for the first team in Leipzig's Bruno-Plache-Stadium came his probation. Because three regular strikers had failed, he was used by coach Karl Dittes in the FDGB Cup final against SC Empor Rostock as a right winger. The 3-2 victory of the Wismut-Elf was also the first men's title for Wagner. He played his first league point games in the 1956 season, where he won his next title, the GDR championship, with 19 point games and two goals. Overall, Wagner won the GDR championship three times with the titles of 1957 and 1959. Wagner played for SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt, later converted to BSG Wismut Aue , in the league until 1967, made 218 matches and scored a total of 12 goals. He was also used in 12 European Cup games for the Wismut team (2 goals). From his previous position as a striker, he was converted into a defender over the course of his career. His specialty were clever free kicks from the edge of the penalty area.
For the GDR national team , Wagner played four international matches between 1959 and 1963. In 1963 he was in the two qualifying games of the GDR Olympic soccer team against the German amateur team (3-0, 1-2). However , he did not take part in the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo because he was ousted in the preparatory games by Manfred Geisler and Klaus-Dieter Seehaus .
Konrad Wagner completed his last league game for Wismut Aue on September 16, 1967 at FC Karl-Marx-Stadt (0: 5). The remainder of the 1967/68 season he played in the reserve team. On June 1, 1968, he was officially bid farewell before the championship game against 1. FC Magdeburg . He ended his career as a player-coach with the district class team of BSG Motor in Penig , where he had started playing soccer at the age of ten. In his professional career he had been trained as a civil engineer.
literature
- German sport echo : born 1955–1968. ISSN 0323-8628
- Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 511.
- Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 291.
Web links
- Konrad Wagner in the database of the German Football Association
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wagner, Konrad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1932 |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 25, 1996 |