Udo Cieslik

Udo Cieslik (born May 13, 1942 ) is a former German soccer player . The goalkeeper played 171 league games for Spandauer SV in the second -rate regional football league Berlin from 1963 to 1970 . Previously, in the last year of the first-class Berlin city league , 1962/63, he took fourth place with Spandau and played 26 league appearances.

Player career

The goalkeeper already impressed with his talent in the youth field. He made it into the DFB national youth team through games in the Berlin youth team . The young talent from Berlin was a member of the squad for the UEFA youth tournament in Austria in April 1960 . In the third group game against the GDR (1-1), he was substituted on in the second half. Teammates at the UEFA junior tournament included players such as Dieter Kurrat , Hermann Marchl , Jürgen Neumann , Stefan Reisch , Kurt Haseneder , Karl-Heinz Bente , Hans-Otto Peters , Gerhard Elfert and Jürgen Koch .

After a short probation in the amateur team, the 20-year-old Cieslik made his debut on the start of the round, August 19, 1962, in a 1-1 home draw against Hertha Zehlendorf in the first-class city league. On the third matchday he experienced the attack quality with his red and whites - indoor storm with Helmut Faeder , Hans-Joachim Altendorff , Lutz Steinert - from Hertha BSC in a 1: 3 home defeat in front of 10,000 spectators at the SSV square on Neuendorfer Strasse . Hertha won the championship at the end of the round by six points and scored 95 goals after 27 rounds. Spandau came fourth with veteran Reinhard Knöfel and young goalkeeper Cieslik (26 games). In the first year of the second-rate regional league era, 1963/64 , Spandau again took fourth place.

Cieslik experienced the best placement with Spandau in the 1964/65 season : The red-whites reached the runner-up championship one point behind Tennis Borussia Berlin. After 18 games, Cieslik and colleagues led the table with 32: 4 against 29: 7 points from “TeBe”. In the subsequent "championship round" against Tennis Borussia, Tasmania 1900, Wacker 04 and Berliner SV 92, however, they slipped to second place. "TeBe" decided the three-way battle for the championship just one point ahead of SSV and three points ahead of Tasmania 1900. Heinz Fischer (25 goals) and Willi Kraus (23 goals) topped the list of goalscorers . Cieslik was used in all 26 league games. The roster of the runner-up included the players Cieslik, Horst Lagies, Horst Rudolph, Bernd Erdmann, Helmut Pohl, Siegfried Ochod, Werner Lange, Horst Lunenburg , Siegfried Zocher, Wolfgang Pfeiffer and Wolfgang Kube. Lunenburg and Zocher scored the most goals from Spandau with eleven goals each. In the Bundesliga promotion round, Spandau could not take part as Berlin runner-up due to the limitation to eight participants.

Spandau also played a remarkable round in the 1966 World Cup in England, 1965/66 . Hertha BSC, who were relegated to the Bundesliga, ran through the finish line with 58: 2 points, far ahead of the competition, but behind them Spandau fought a bitter duel for the runner-up with Tennis Borussia. At the end of the lap, two points separated the Spandauer from the runner-up again. The only Hertha defeat brought Spandau to the later sovereign champions on November 14, 1965 with a 3-1 home win. In the following year, 1966/67, Spandau reached third place again, but now the gap to the runner-up had grown to nine points. In the next few laps, Cieslik and Spandau had no chance of playing seriously in the race for first place.

In his last regional round in 1969/70 he finished sixth with his home club and ended his high-class career in the summer of 1970 after a total of 171 regional league appearances.

He went back to the amateur camp and let his career at SC Ruhleben end.

literature

• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 9: Player Lexicon 1963-1994. Bundesliga, regional league, 2nd league. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 , p. 88.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl-Heinz Heimann, Karl-Heinz Jens: Kicker-Almanach 1989. Copress-Verlag. Munich 1988. ISBN 3-7679-0245-1 . P. 407