Lutz Hendel

Lutz Hendel
	Lutz Hendel
	Hendel 1983
Personnel
birthday	18th December 1958
place of birth	East Berlin , GDR
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
1964-1968	SG Friedrichshagen
1968-1976	1. FC Union Berlin
Men's
07 / 85-10 / 85	Forward Strausberg
1993–	Köpenicker SC
	MSV 19 Rüdersdorf
	Germania Schöneiche
National team
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
	Adlershofer BC
	Fortuna Biesdorf
	1 Only league games are given.

Lutz Hendel , called "Meter" , (born December 18, 1958 in East Berlin ) was a football player in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of the GDR Football Association . There he was active for 1. FC Union Berlin .

Player career

The midfielder began his football career in 1964 in the youth of the East Berlin sports community Friedrichshagen (today Friedrichshagener SV) and four years later moved to the youth department of 1. FC Union Berlin. In March 1976 Hendel moved up to the first men's team, which was playing in the second-rate GDR league at that time, and with this made it to the top division. The only 17-year-old was used by the trainer Heinz Werner in all eight promotion round games. In the summer of 1976 Hendel was included in the squad of the GDR junior national team and played his first international junior match on August 20, 1976 as a substitute against the Soviet Union. This was followed by another 15 international matches by April 1977, in which he was usually used as a midfielder. In his first league season in 1976/77, the only 1.69 m tall Hendel was a substitute player and was used in 14 of the 26 point games. In the 1977/78 season he made his breakthrough as a regular player with 25 league appearances and defended this status until 1992.

From July 1984 to October 1985 Hendel had to do his army service and during this time he played for the upper division FC Vorwärts Frankfurt and for the last quarter of the year for the third-class district division Vorwärts Strausberg . For Frankfurt he played twelve league games (with one goal) as well as both UEFA Cup matches against PSV Eindhoven , in which he scored 1-0 at home in Frankfurt (Oder).

After his return to Berlin, Hendel experienced the greatest success of his career when he reached the final of the GDR soccer cup . The final on May 31, 1986 was lost for the Berliners with 1: 5 against 1. FC Lok Leipzig. Then the Unioner took part in the Intertoto Cup 1986 and were group winners in front of the Bundesliga club Bayer Uerdingen. With the descent in 1989, however, a difficult time began for him and Union. Initially, they failed several times in a row just to get promoted to the top division or, after the turnaround, to qualify for the 2nd Bundesliga . In 1993 Union had made the second division qualification athletically. A little later, however, the club was withdrawn from the license for the second division due to a forged bank guarantee and the Unioners remained third class.

Then Hendel, who in the 1992/93 season as a 35-year-old had only played 18 of the 36 point and relegation games, ended his time at Union. In his total of 25 years with the club, he played 422 competitive games in which he scored 31 goals, including a. a. 191 in the DDR-Oberliga (7 goals), 106 in the DDR-Liga (9 goals) and 27 in the FDGB-Pokal (3 goals). This makes him the record player for 1. FC Union Berlin. After that he was still active for a short time as a player-coach at Köpenicker SC , MSV 19 Rüdersdorf and SV Germania 90 Schöneiche .

Lutz Hendel 2012 in the jersey of the traditional team of 1. FC Union.

After the playing career

Hendel worked after the end of his career as a football player, mainly as a coach, u. a. for the Adlershofer BC and Fortuna Biesdorf . He also played in the old men team of Sportfreunde Johannisthal as well as in various traditional teams of 1. FC Union and FC Vorwärts. He also worked temporarily in the 1. FC Union office and later as a caretaker in the Köpenicker Merian School.

literature

Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 199.
Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pp. 296, 313.
Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .

Web links

Lutz Hendel in the database of the German Football Association
Player statistics at immerunioner.de

Individual evidence

↑ 1. FC Union Berlin against 1. FC Heidenheim, stadium newspaper, matchday 30 on April 17, 2016, page 24

personal data
SURNAME	Hendel, Lutz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH	18th December 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH	East Berlin

[1] 1. FC Union Berlin against 1. FC Heidenheim, stadium newspaper, matchday 30 on April 17, 2016, page 24