Rainer Köpnick

Rainer Köpnick (born December 24, 1953 ) was a soccer goalkeeper in the GDR Oberliga , the highest East German soccer class. There he played for Stahl Riesa .

Athletic career

The goalkeeper and trained as an electrician Köpnick completed his first games in the men's division in 1974 with the 2nd team of the army sports club FC Vorwärts Frankfurt (Oder) , which was represented in the second-rate GDR league . In 1975 he moved for a year to the GDR league club Army Sports Community Forward Dessau . After his discharge from the army, the 1.80 m tall Köpnick joined the upper division Stahl Riesa in 1976. There he replaced the previous goalkeeper Wolfgang Scharf in the course of the 1976/77 season and made 15 point appearances in his first league season. He played his first league game on the 12th game day of the season, December 11, 1976, in the encounter between Rot-Weiß Erfurt and Stahl Riesa (2-1). At the end of the season Riesa was relegated to the GDR league, but with goalkeeper Köpnick, who played 28 of the 30 league and promotion games played, the team returned to the first class after a year. In the following three seasons, Köpnick remained the undisputed number one in the Riesaer Tor with 74 appearances in the 78 Oberliga point games.

When Stahl Riesa had to relegate again in 1981, the 27-year-old Köpnick moved to the GDR league promoted Motor Babelsberg after 89 league games . There he was a regular goalkeeper until 1985, when he was replaced by Klaus Herber, who was five years his junior. He stayed at Motor Babelsberg as a reserve goalkeeper until 1990. Even after the end of competitive sport, Köpnick kept the connection to the successor club SV Babelsberg 03 upright, where he was involved in the club's circle of friends. As a recreational athlete, he still guarded the gate of ESV Lok Seddin in the Brandenburg state class in 1995.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 .
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 .
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .
• The test matches were useless . In: Berliner Zeitung , February 12, 1996; Goalkeeper at Lok Seddin

Web links

• Freundeskreis Babelsberg 03 ( Memento from December 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive )