Rainer Wallek

Rainer Wallek 1983

Rainer Wallek (born June 8, 1959 ) was a soccer player in the game operations of the GDR soccer association . In its highest division, the Oberliga , he played for Chemie Buna Schkopau , for 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig and Halleschen FC Chemie .

Until 1979, the toolmaker Wallek played in the district class team of Traktor Görzig north of Halle (Saale) in the fourth division. For the 1979/80 season he moved to the GDR league club chemistry Buna Schkopau in the second division. In his second season in Schkopau he rose with his team surprisingly in the GDR Oberliga, but was only involved with 15 league appearances in 30 games played and with one goal. The 1.81 m offensive player at Chemie Buna also got off to a bumpy start in the 1981/82 league season. Up to the 7th matchday he had only played four times and was never on the field for the full 90 minutes. Only then did he begin to stabilize and finally came up to the end of the season on 23 league games with three goals. He played 15 times over the full distance and was usually used as a center forward. As the worst team of the season, Chemie Buna Schkopau was relegated from the league after just one year.

Wallek played with Schkopau in the 1982/83 season in the GDR league and was the team's top scorer with nine goals. Immediately after the end of the season, in May 1983, he moved to the first division club 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig and played the last game of the Leipzig season there on May 28th. In the encounter between Dynamo Dresden and 1. FC Lok (3: 1) he was substituted on in the 55th minute and thanked him with the consolation goal for Leipzig in the 71st minute.

Also for the season 1983/84 Wallek was nominated by 1. FC Lok for his league team, but was not used until the end of the first half of the season. He then made another change and joined the upper division Halleschen FC Chemie (HFC) in early 1984. But even there he did not succeed in really gaining a foothold. In the 13 point games up to the end of the season he was only used five times in the league, only once as a left winger over the full length of the game. The HFC ended the season as relegated and played 1984/85 in the GDR league. Even under the new coach Olaf Keller and under second division conditions, Wallek's situation did not improve. In the first half of the season he played six point games, four of which he completed as a striker over 90 minutes. At the end of 1984, at the age of 25, Wallek gave up his first division ambitions after 29 league appearances and four goals, and at the beginning of 1985 he went to Chemie Wolfen in the third-class Halle district league . He did not return to higher-class football even later.

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 .

Web links

• Rainer Wallek page on Lok-Leipzig-DB