Udo Rietzschel

Udo Rietzschel (born June 5, 1956 ) is a former German soccer player. In the 1970s he played for 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of GDR football . In 1977 he was a member of the GDR youth national team .

Athletic career

In 1972, the 16-year-old Udo Rietzschel moved from the company sports association (BSG) activist Borna to 1. FC Lok Leipzig, the focus of football in the Leipzig area. Until 1975 he played in the junior league , in 1974 he won the GDR junior championship with 1. FC Lok . In the same year he played in the GDR league team 1. FC Lok Leipzig II his first point game in the men's area. From 1976 to 1980 he was used as a defender in the junior league. His three international matches with the GDR youth national team also fall during this time.

At the same time, Rietzschel also played in the GDR league from 1976. Already in the 1976/77 season he had 18 missions there, in which he was called up at all game levels. In the long run, however, Rietzschel could not prevail in the league team, because in the three following seasons with a total of 78 games, he only came to 17 missions in which he scored two goals.

From the 1980/81 season on, Udo Rietzschel played for seven seasons with the Army Sports Community Forward Dessau in the second-rate GDR league , where he was a regular player until the end of the 1985/86 season. Under coach Otto Fräßdorf he was initially used as a striker, in 1981/82 interim coach Lothar Wehrmann Rietzschel worked as a defender. Rietzschel usually kept this position permanently, only towards the end of his career at ASG did Ritzschel return as a striker for several game days. In 1986 he played 134 games out of 190 possible league appearances and scored 31 goals. At the beginning of the 1986/87 season, Udo Rietzschel was 30 years old, but was nominated again as a defender by Vorwärts Dessau. However, he was only used in one league game and after the end of the season declared his retirement from performance-related football.

As a recreational footballer, Rietzschel then joined the district league club Union Mühlhausen , with whom he became district champion in 1989 and helped the team to rise to the GDR league. But then he no longer competed there.

literature

• The new football week : born 1950–1989. ISSN  0323-8407
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 391.
• Andreas Baingo , Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 330.
• DSFS (ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949–1991 (Volume 8). Berlin 2011, p. 302.

Web links

• Udo Rietzschel in the database of the German Football Association
• Udo Rietzschel in the database of weltfussball.de