Rainer Geserich

Rainer Geserich (born November 8, 1942 in Töplitz ; † July 20, 2020 in Lehnin ) was a former German football player. He played for SC Dynamo Berlin / BFC Dynamo from 1962 to 1969 in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football . He played 76 first division games in which he scored eleven goals. Geserich is a multiple junior and junior national player.

Athletic career

As a teenager, Geserich played for the Brandenburg sports clubs Alt Töplitz, Lok Frankfurt and Rotation Babelsberg . As a Babelsberg junior player, he was part of the squad of the junior national team, with which he played six international matches as a left winger, in which he scored two goals. In January 1961, the newly founded SC Potsdam took over the first team from Rotation Babelsberg as well as the junior player Geserich. The 18-year-old was integrated into the GDR league team early on , and he played 31 of the 39 point games (special season for the transition from the calendar year to the summer-spring rhythm). He was successful with nine goals.

With his six junior internationals, Geserich had become interesting for the top division club SC Dynamo Berlin. Geserich moved to the sports club of the GDR Interior Ministry for the 1962/63 season and immediately became a regular on the left attacking side. He played all 26 point games and scored five goals. During this season he was also used in three international matches for the GDR youth national team . 1963/64 Geserich still belonged to the regular team of SC Dynamo, he was only missing in three point games, was mainly called up again as a left winger and scored three goals. While it went as usual in the Hinserie 1964/65 for Geserich, he was used in all 13 point games, injuries and poor form threw him off the track after the winter break, so that he only played in three more point games. Instead, he was used in games of the reserve team.

A protracted ankle injury hampered Geserich's ambitions in the league in 1965/66. During the season, the football section of SC Dynamo was spun off and converted into the Berlin Football Club Dynamo (BFC). After the 1966/67 season, the BFC rose from the league, Geserich had only played one league game. It was not until the GDR league season 1967/68 that he found his way back to his old form and with his 28 appearances in 30 point games and five goals played a decisive role in the immediate resurgence of the Berliners. After the first day of the league season 1968/69, Geserich injured himself again and then remained so weak that he was used for the rest of the season in the reserve team, which now played as BFC II in the GDR league. In addition, he was used five times as a substitute in the league.

For the 1969/70 season Geserich moved to the third-rate district division SG Dynamo Frankfurt , who made it to the GDR league with him in 1971. 1971/72 Frankfurt joined the SG Dynamo Fürstenwalde , which took over from Frankfurt in the GDR league. For Fürstenwalde Geserich played two seasons in the GDR league and came to 27 stakes in the game and two championship goals. In the summer of 1973 he joined the league competitor Motor Babelsberg , where he played four point games. He then retired from competitive sports at the age of 31.

Trivia

Rainer Geserich last lived in his hometown Töplitz and died on July 20, 2020 after a long illness.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1960–1974. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 155.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 293.

Web links

• Rainer Geserich in the database of the German Football Association
• Rainer Geserich: Obituary notice at babelsberg03.de