Manfred Schütze (soccer player)

Manfred Schütze (born April 19, 1943 in Salza / Nordhausen ) is a former German soccer player. In the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football , he was active for ASK / FC Vorwärts Berlin and Halleschen FC Chemie . With Vorwärts Berlin he was GDR soccer champion in 1965 and 1966.

Athletic career

Manfred Schütze began his football career in the children's team of the company sports association (BSG) up in his birthplace Salza. At the age of seven he came to BSG Motor Nordhausen in 1950 , where he worked in all of the junior departments until 1962. In the 1961/62 season he was part of the first team of the BSG, which made it up from the third-class II. GDR league to the GDR league . In the spring of 1962 he became a soldier in the National People's Army (NVA) and was given the opportunity to continue playing football at ASK Vorwärts Berlin, the NVA's central sports club. After he had played only in the reserve team in 1962/63, he played his first two point games for the ASK league team in the 1963/64 season. Although Schütze stayed with ASK until 1967, whose football section was transferred to FC Vorwärts Berlin in 1966, he did not succeed in making it into the regular eleven. When Vorwärts became East German soccer champions in the 1964/65 and 1965/66 seasons, Schütze was only involved with six and eight missions respectively. Nevertheless, he was called up in September 1964 in an international match of the GDR junior national team. He completed his best season in 1966/67 when he was called up in ten point games. During the 1967/68 season, Schütze left FC Vorwärts Berlin with seven goals after 26 league appearances and joined the upper division Hallescher FC Chemie. There he was used as a substitute on the last Bundesliga matchday. In the two following seasons Schütze could not prevail in the Halle Oberliga team. Across the seasons, he was only called up in 19 league games in which he was only six times in the starting line-up. Used as a striker, he only scored one goal. For the 1970/71 season Schütze returned to Nordhausen and rejoined the GDR league team of BSG Motor. There he immediately managed to establish himself as a regular player. In the six seasons up to 1975/76, he missed only four games of the 140 point games played and was the top scorer of the north houses each season. At the age of 33, he began his last season as a football player in 1976/77. Once again he was used in twelve GDR league games and scored his last two goals. When he ended his football career in the summer of 1977, his balance sheet showed 46 league games with eight goals and 148 GDR league games with 69 goals. He then became a junior coach at Motor Nordhausen, and in the 1980s he was in charge of FSG Salza, with whom he made it to the district and state class. He later held several functionaries in Nordhausen football.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1950–1990. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 452.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pp. 315, 320.

Web links

• Manfred Schütze in the database of the German Football Association
• Manfred Schütze on his 70th birthday in Thüringer Allgemeine on April 19, 1913