Ulrich Netz

Ulrich Netz (born July 21, 1957 ) was a soccer player in East Berlin . For 1. FC Union Berlin he played 69 times in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of the GDR Football Association . Later he worked as a youth coach.

Athletic career

Netz began to play organized football in 1967 as a ten-year-old in the children's team of the East Berlin BSG Lokomotive Schöneweide . At the age of 14 he was delegated to 1. FC Union Berlin by the BSG in 1971. When he was eligible to play in the men's division in 1975, he was first used in the third-class district league team Union II. It was not until the last day of the second-rate GDR league on May 26, 1975 that the network was called up for the first time in the first team. In the subsequent eight promotion games, he was used in four encounters. Union was only last in the promotion round and thus missed the league promotion. In the following GDR league season 1975/76, net fought for a regular place in the first team and played 21 of the 22 point games and all eight promotion games. This time Union won second place in the promotion round and returned to the league after three years.

In his first league season in 1976/77, the 1.83 m tall net was nominated as a striker and was a Union center forward during the season. However, between December 1976 and March 1977 he lost his regular place and by the end of the season he only made 17 stakes in 26 matches played. Also in 1977/78 he came again only to 17 point games, was only a substitute player until the spring of 1978 and only played regularly as a center forward from the 19th matchday on. With his six goals he was the second best Union scorer behind Libero (!) Rainer Rohde (7 goals). Netz 1978/79 had its most enthusiastic league season. As a seeded center forward he made 21 point games and with three goals he had only one less goal than top scorer Michael Paschek . 1979/80 network career suffered another setback, because he was only used again from the 13th matchday on in the league team. After that, however, he played all other point games, but now as a left winger. At the end of the season Union had to relegate again to the GDR league. In the GDR league season 1980/81, the network was no longer part of the regular staff of the first team. He played only twelve of the 22 point games, only four of them over the full 90 minutes. In the subsequent unsuccessful promotion round, he played five of the eight games. For the 1981/82 season he was nominated for the first team, but only played games with the second team.

For the 1982/83 season network switched to GDR league club Dynamo Fürstenwalde and ended his career as a competitive athlete there in the summer of 1984. As a hobby footballer, he returned to his first community Lok Schönewalde. In later years Netz, who had completed a degree in sports teaching, became a junior coach at the Berlin clubs BFC Dynamo and Hertha BSC . In July 2010, the Berlin DFB support center Sportforum Hohenschönhausen took him over as a youth coach.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 335.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 297.
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .

Web links

• Ulrich Netz in the database of the German Football Association
• Ulrich Netz on immerunioner.de