Norbert Schumann
Norbert Schumann (born October 17, 1952 in Lindenkreuz ; † May 21, 2011 in Leverkusen ) was a football player in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of the GDR Football Association . He played there for FC Carl Zeiss Jena , with whom he twice won the GDR soccer cup . Schumann was several young international players.
Athletic career
In 1967, at the age of just under 15, Schumann was delegated by his previous company sports association Progress in Münchenbernsdorf to the regional football focus FC Carl Zeiss Jena. There he played first in the youth team, then in the junior team, with which he was represented in the junior league. There he was discovered for the junior national team and completed two junior internationals in 1971. He was then used from 1972 to 1974 in nine international matches of the youth national team.
On June 5, 1971 Schumann was used for the first time in the GDR Oberliga. In the 24th league game of the 1970/71 season between FC Carl Zeiss and Hallescher FC Chemie (0-0), he was used as a right winger for 61 minutes. On the last day of the league season he played against FC Vorwärts Berlin (4-0) for 71 minutes. Two weeks later Schumann was back as a right striker with FC Carl Zeiss in the final of the GDR soccer cup and won his first title after the 2-1 win over Dynamo Dresden. Until 1973, Schumann could not assert himself as a regular player, of the 52 league league games he played in only 25 and had little success as a striker with only three goals. In the 1973/74 season he seemed to have made the breakthrough, he completed 21 of the 26 point games and was the best scorer of his team with ten goals, ahead of national striker Eberhard Vogel , who had only scored nine goals. Schumann had played alternately as a right or central striker. He closed the season with his second GDR cup win. In the final on April 13, 1974 again against Dynamo Dresden (3-1 after extra time) he shot the Jena 2-1 in the 115th minute. The following season 1974/75 Schumann began again in his usual storm positions on the right and central, was almost regularly used in the Hinserie up to the 9th matchday, but completed only two league games on the 15th and 16th matchday after the winter break. His last game in the league was the match between Hansa Rostock and FC Carl Zeiss (0-2) on March 8, 1975, when he was called up again as a right attacker.
After leaving the FC Carl Zeiss Jena top division squad, Schumann was able to look back on the following record: 57 top division games and 15 goals, twelve national cup games one goal and nine goalless games in the European Cup . From 1976 to 1989 Schumann was a youth trainer in his former sports community progress Munich-Bernsdorf.
In 1989 Schumann moved to the Federal Republic and settled with his family in Leverkusen . At Bayer 04 Leverkusen he worked as a junior coach from 1992 to 2000. From 2000 to 2007 Schumann was a B youth coach at VfL Leverkusen. He then became the sporting director of the private junior soccer school Soccer Akademie in Leverkusen.
literature
- Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 458.
- Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 322.
- Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .
Web links
- Norbert Schumann in the database of the German Football Association
- Norbert Schumann at www.fcc-supporters.org
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schumann, Norbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th October 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Linden cross |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 21, 2011 |
| Place of death | Leverkusen |