Ralf Humboldt

Ralf Humboldt (born May 31, 1956 ) is a former German soccer player who played for the army sports associations (ASG) Vorwärts Plauen and Vorwärts Stralsund and for the company sports association (BSG) Greifswald nuclear power plant in the GDR league .

Athletic career

Ralf Humboldt completed his first games in the second-rate GDR league for Vorwärts Plauen in the 1975/76 season. He was used in the first league game and played 18 of the 22 league games by the end of the season. He usually stormed on the left side and scored three goals. 1976/77 Humboldt was used in the left midfield, missed only one league game and was the team's top scorer with eight goals.

For the 1977/78 season, Humboldt moved to Vorwärts Stralsund. There he introduced himself as the top scorer with eleven goals and was also missing only once in the 22 league games. Until 1989 he remained a constant in Stralsund's midfield and was always a reliable goal scorer. After several attempts, the ASG achieved the relay victory in 1982, in which Humboldt was involved with 21 of the 22 league games and five goals. In the subsequent promotion games to the GDR Oberliga , he was used in all eight matches, but scored no goal, and with third place out of five teams involved, forward missed promotion. Humboldt completed his last season in Stralsund in 1988/89. Of the 34 GDR league games played this time, he completed 18 matches and only scored one goal. In his twelve seasons with Vorwärts Stralsund, he was used in 269 league games in which he scored 63 goals.

Before the start of the 1989/90 season, ASG Vorwärts Stralsund was dissolved, and Humboldt took this as an opportunity to join the neighboring BSG nuclear power plant in Greifswald. Next as a midfielder, at times also as a defender, he also took a regular place in Greifswald . In his 29 league games he was able to prove his scoring risk again, he scored six goals. Ralf Humboldt played the last season in high-class football in 1990/91. He played for the Greifswalder SC , the turn-related successor Association of BSG NPP. The GSC competed in the NOFV League , in which Humboldt played 16 of the 30 point games played, but did not score any more goals. As a 35-year-old, he ended his career as a football player in the top leagues after 351 second division games and 73 goals.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1975–1990. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 226.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 300.
• DSFS (ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949–1991 (Volume 8). Berlin 2011 p. 208.

Web links

• Ralf Humboldt in the weltfussball.de database