Rainer Langer

Rainer Langer (born September 8, 1943 in Gumpertsdorf, Opole district as Rainer Not ) was a soccer player and soccer coach in the area of ​​the GDR soccer association . In its top division Oberliga , he played for the SC Chemie Halle and the Halleschen FC Chemie and for the BSG Chemie Buna Schkopau .

Career

Rainer Nicht came to SC Chemie Halle through his first sports association Aktivist Halle-Süd in 1961 at the age of 18. There he first played in the reserve team before coming to his first appearance in the league team on April 26, 1964. On the 18th matchday of the 1963/64 season he was used in the encounter SC Chemie - Turbine Erfurt (3-1) as a half-right striker and also shot his first league goal. By the end of the season he came to another five league games. Then the club was relegated to the GDR league, but returned to the major league after just one year. In the 1965/66 season not already belonged to the trunk he league team and played in changing positions in attack 22 of the 26 played point games. In the course of the season, the football section of SC Chemie was spun off to Halleschen FC Chemie (HFC).

In 1967 he was accepted into the squad of the GDR youth national team. On May 16, 1967, he played a junior international match against Sweden (0-0) in Berlin. In connection with the trips of the young generation, he had difficulties with the entry permit to the western states due to a missing birth certificate, so he had himself notarized under the name of his then family Langer. However, he was no longer used in the junior selection.

As Rainer Langer, he remained a regular at the HFC. While he was used in changing positions in attack until 1968, he was then until 1973 the standard left winger of the Halle. For a long time he and Roland Nowotny formed the HFC wing tongs. 1970/71 reached Langer with the HFC in third place, the best league placement. With this, Halle had also qualified for the 1971/72 UEFA Cup competition . However, there was only one game on September 15, 1971 (HFC - PSV Eindhoven 0-0), in which Langer played as usual as a left attacker. The second leg did not come because the HFC withdrew its team from the competition after a fire in the team quarters in which the substitute Wolfgang Hoffmann was killed and the regular players and Klaus Urbanczyk and Erhard Mosert were seriously injured.

Langer's last season for HFC was in 1972/73. The 29-year-old played 23 point games as a left winger, but remained without a goal. The HFC ended the season again as relegated, Langer then left the club, for which he had played 181 first division games within nine league seasons and scored 25 goals.

For the 1973/74 season, Langer moved to the newly promoted GDR league BSG Chemie Buna Schkopau. He played with him for eight years in the second division until the team was promoted to the league in 1981. The now 37-year-old Langer was involved with 29 appearances in a total of 30 point and promotion games. Even at an advanced age he took on a league season again. As a midfielder, he played 19 of the 26 point games in 1981/82, but could not prevent Schkopau from being relegated from the league again after a year. His last football game in the performance area completed Langer on the 25th matchday, May 22, 1982, when Schkopau was already determined as relegated. In the encounter between Schkopau and FC Carl Zeiss Jena (0: 3), played again for 90 minutes as a right midfielder.

For the 1983/84 season Langer took over the training of the GDR league team from chemistry Buna Schkopau. He had the difficult task of bringing the team to at least sixth at the end of the season, as this was the only way to secure qualification for the GDR league, which had been reduced from five to two seasons. Langer's team made it to the 6th place on the spot. For the new season, however, the requirements for trainer qualifications had been raised. Since Langer had only acquired a D license, he had to give up his coaching position. After that he was only active in recreational football.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 336 (Nicht / Langer).
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pp. 319, 340.
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .
• GDR sports newspaper: Deutsches Sportecho , issue from September 1, 1983 with a short biography

Web links

• Rainer Langer in the database of the German Football Association