Kurt Liebrecht

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Kurt Liebrecht
Personnel
birthday 24th December 1936  (age 83)
place of birth StendalGerman Empire
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
1947-1955 BSG Lokomotive Stendal
or its predecessor communities
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1955-1971 BSG Locomotive Stendal 304 (72)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1959-1960 DDR U-23 3 0(0)
1963-1964 DDR Olympia 6 0(0)
1958-1960 GDR B 5 0(0)
1960-1965 GDR 16 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.

Kurt "Kuddel" Liebrecht (born December 24, 1936 in Stendal ) was a soccer player in the GDR and played 16 times in the GDR national soccer team .

Athletic career

Locomotive Stendal

Kurt Liebrecht is one of the few prominent GDR soccer players who have spent their entire sports career with a sports club. At Liebrecht it was the Betriebsportgemeinschaft (BSG) Lokomotive Stendal , which at the beginning of Liebrecht's career was called SG Stendal-Nord and eventually became the BSG Lokomotive via SG Blau-Weiß Stendal, SG Eintracht Stendal and BSG Hans Wendler Stendal.

At the age of eleven he registered with the locomotive predecessor SG Stendal Nord. At the age of twenty, he played his first season in the GDR league in 1956 , in which the Stendal team achieved their best result in GDR football when they came back on fourth place. In the first team in 1954/55, with two goals in two games, he had a small share in the leap of the eleven from the Altmark to the East German upper house. In the transition round in 1955, the teenager was not used, but his namesake Werner Liebrecht in three games .

Although Lok Stendal developed from 1957 into an elevator team between the upper league and the second-class GDR league , Liebrecht remained loyal to the BSG. This is all the more remarkable since Stendal's midfield director was a national player from 1960 who, according to the philosophy of GDR sports management, was supposed to play in the specially funded sports clubs. In addition to his international career, Liebrecht recorded successes as a BSG player by moving into the cup final in 1966 (0: 1 against Chemie Leipzig ) and with the award as the best league player of the 1962/63 season by the football magazine "fuwo". Liebrecht played his last league season in the 1967/68 season. Until the 1970/71 season he played in the first team in Stendal. During this time he had played nine league series in which he was used in 197 encounters - first as a striker and later as a midfielder. He scored 32 goals in the major league. After his active time he worked as a trainer.

Selection bets

After three games in the GDR youth team , Kurt Liebrecht played his first A international match on October 30, 1960 in Rostock against Finland. In this game, which ended 5-1 for the GDR, the 23-year-old was called up as a right midfielder. Liebrecht was also involved in the next two national team games, but was not considered again in the following twelve international matches. It was not until 1962 that he became a regular player in the national team and by the time he left international football in 1965 he had made 16 international appearances. He was also in the B selection five times .

Kurt Liebrecht (2nd from right) in 1963 with the GDR Olympic selection

In 1963 and 1964 Liebrecht was a member of the East German Olympic team , which had to compete with the USSR and Holland's amateurs in the qualification after the success against the DFB amateur team . He took part - including the domestic elimination in autumn 1963 - in the first four qualifying games. Due to an injury, he was unable to play the victorious games against the Soviet Union. As a result, although in 1964/65 again in the league with almost no break for Stendal on the ball, he missed the final nomination for the final squad in Tokyo . So he missed the bronze medal that the team won at the tournament in Japan's capital.

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