Manfred Lienemann

Manfred Lienemann (born December 24, 1946 in Plauen ) was a football player at SC Motor Karl-Marx-Stadt and its successor clubs in the GDR major league .

player

Manfred Lienemann began his football career at the age of eight in 1955 at BSG Chemie Karl-Marx-Stadt, from which SC Motor Karl-Marx-Stadt later developed. In October 1964, he played his first international youth match and was in the 1965 UEFA youth tournament. In the final, which the GDR won, he was not used due to injury. Overall, Lienemann was used in eight games of the junior team. Six youth internationals were added later. In the league team of the sports club, the only 1.66 m tall Lienemann was used for the first time as a half-right striker on August 21, 1965, the third match day of the league season 1965/66. A season later, Karl-Marx-Stadt, now a football club, was GDR champion. Lienemann had been used in 21 of 26 league games and, as the second-best goalscorer of his team, had contributed significantly to the success with seven goals. At the same time he also passed the Abitur. In 1969 he reached the final of the GDR soccer cup with FCK , but it was lost 4-0 to 1. FC Magdeburg . In November 1970 he moved to ASG Vorwärts Leipzig for 18 months to do his army service there. In spring 1972 Lienemann returned to FCK, where he ended his active football career in 1975. He had played in a total of 143 league games and scored 32 goals.

At the international level, Lienemann played two European Cup games for the Karl-Marx-Städter. In the European Champions Cup in 1967 he and his team failed in the first round at RSC Anderlecht (1: 2.1: 3). In the GDR's Olympic team , Lienemann played a qualifying game in March 1967. He contributed a goal in the 5-0 win over Greece.

Trainer

After his playing career, Lienemann was a junior coach at FC Karl-Marx-Stadt from 1975 to 1981. From 1981 to 1985 he was the club's head coach. His greatest success as a coach was in 1983 when he reached the FDGB Cup final , but here too he lost 4-0 as a coach against 1. FC Magdeburg. After he reached ninth place four times and sixth place once with FCK in the Oberliga, Lienemann resigned in 1985. From 1985 to 1987 he acted as deputy club manager. The next two years he was a coach at BSG Stahl Riesa , with whom he was relegated from the league in the first season. In 1989 and 1990 he was district trainer for the Karl-Marx-Stadt district . After the political change in 1989 he worked again at his old club, which in the meantime started out as Chemnitzer FC. Initially, he was a youth coach, from 1999 to 2001 assistant coach in the 2nd Bundesliga . In 2000 he was temporarily head coach for two games. In addition, he was temporarily chairman of the training and further education commission of the Chemnitz Football District Association. Lienemann is an honorary member of Chemnitzer FC.

literature

• Hanns Leske : The GDR league players. A lexicon. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-392-9 .

Web links

• Manfred Lienemann in the database of weltfussball.de
• Manfred Lienemann in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Manfred Lienemann in the database of the German Football Association
• Manfred Lienemann at chemnitzerfc.de