Michael Meyer (soccer player, 1951)

Michael Meyer (born March 5, 1951 ) is a former German soccer player who played between 1971 and 1982 for BSG Stahl Riesa and BSG Chemie Leipzig in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of GDR soccer .

Athletic career

In 1970, the 19-year-old Michael Meyer rose to the second-rate GDR league with the 2nd team of the Dynamo Dresden police sports club . While in the 1970/71 season with 23 appearances in the GDR league and two goals he was a regular player in the 2nd team, he was only called up five times in the first half of the season in 1971/72, but scored three goals. In November 1971 Meyer was given to the neighboring league club Stahl Riesa, where he played 14 league games as a striker by the end of the season and scored two more goals. At the end of the season Stahl Riesa was relegated, and Meyer found himself again in the GDR league in 1972/73, but played only one game there. He then moved to Chemie Leipzig, where he played in the league again in 1973/74. In the 26 point games he was used 19 times, but was mostly used as a substitute and was relatively unsuccessful with his two goals. He then went back to the GDR league with his new team. There he developed into an asset, completed 21 of the 22 point games, was used in all eight promotion games and scored a total of six goals. The team managed to return to the league immediately. In the 1975/76 season Meyer started his third league season, which was his most successful. Mainly playing as a left winger, he only missed one point game and was the top scorer of the Chemists with his six goals. But he couldn't prevent his relegation for the third time. Chemie Leipzig stayed in the GDR league for the next two seasons. It was not until 1979 that the team managed to return to the league, in which Meyer was again significantly involved with 19 of 22 point games and ten goals and eight promotion games with one goal. The league stay lasted only one year. It was Meyer's last league season in which he again played 20 point games, but was without a goal for the first time since 1973. In the GDR league season 1980/81 he was used again in ten league games, his only goal was also the last for Chemie Leipzig. For the 1981/82 season Meyer moved to league competitor Stahl Nordwest Leipzig . Until 1984 he played two seasons in the GDR league, interrupted in 1982/83 when Stahl NW played after relegation in the district league. Meyer made 20 GDR league appearances for the steelworkers and scored one goal. In the summer of 1984, at the age of 33, he ended his career as a football player in the competitive field. Within 13 seasons he had played 78 league games (10 goals) and 122 GDR league games (39 goals) in higher-class football. He then worked as a soccer coach, including from 2009 to 2011 as an assistant coach for the women's team at 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig and also as an assistant coach in 2014 when FC International Leipzig started playing.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1970–1984. ISSN  0323-8628
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pp. 327, 337.
• DFSF (Ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949–1991 (Volume 8). Berlin 2011, p. 265.

Web links

• Michael Meyer in the database of the German Football Association
• Michael Meyer in the database of weltfussball.de