Rainer Wiedemann (soccer player)

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Rainer Wiedemann (born April 1, 1966 ) is a former German soccer player who played for BSG Stahl Brandenburg in the GDR Oberliga .

Athletic career

Wiedemann's career in higher-class football began with winning the championship in the Magdeburg district league with the BSG Lokomotive Stendal in the 1986/87 season and the associated promotion to the second-rate GDR league . In his first GDR league season in 1987/88 he was the Stendal regular with 31 stakes in 34 rounds and top scorer of his team with 13 goals. This balance prompted the BSG Stahl Brandenburg, which played in the GDR Oberliga, the top division in GDR football, to strengthen their squad with Wiedemann.

Although a trained striker, Wiedemann could not prevail against the well-rehearsed Brandenburg storm duo Jan Voss and Frank Jeske . By the end of the first half of the season, Wiedemann played in twelve of the thirteen point games, but scored no goals and was only in the starting line-up four times. Only in one of the two cup games in which he played did he score a goal. Since coach Peter Kohl saw no future for Wiedemann's career in Brandenburg, Wiedemann went back to GDR league club Lok Stendal in January 1989.

There he played all 17 point games in the second half of the season and scored three goals. But he could not prevent the Stendal from being relegated back to the district league at the end of the season. With the team that was restructured to FSV Lok Altmark in the 1989/90 season as a result of the political turnaround in 1989 , Wiedemann immediately managed to return to the former GDR league, which was renamed the NOFV league after taking over the DFB game. He remained active in Stendal until the end of the 1998/99 season. After the restructuring of the DFB league system, Lok Stendal played from 1991/92 in the third-class Oberliga Nordost and from 1994/95 in the third-class Regionalliga Nordost . The highlights of his late career include the quarter-final cup match against Bayer 04 Leverkusen , when the Stendal team were only eliminated after the penalty shoot-out, and the two-time season top scorer in 1998 with 25 and 1999 with 19 goals. After the 1998/99 season, Wiedemann said goodbye to competitive sports, but was still active as a leisure kicker at TuS Bismark in the regional and association leagues.

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