Walter Radunski

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Walter Radunski (born October 14, 1924 ) is a former German football player who played first division football in the upper league of the GDR Sports Committee (DS) for VfB Pankow and BSG Einheit Pankow in the early 1950s .

Athletic career

Radunski was first noticed in the Berlin press when he was promoted to the highest Berlin soccer class, the city ​​league , with SG Nord in 1949 . As VfL Nord, the team played one season in the city league in 1949/50 and then rose again. Radunski then moved to VfB Pankow. VfB previously played in the entire Berlin city league, but when the Association of Berliner Ballspielvereine introduced the contract player system in 1950 , the sports management of the GDR took this as an opportunity to separate their football teams from the overall Berlin gaming operations and integrate them into the GDR league system. As a result, VfB Pankow was integrated into the DS-Oberliga. Since several VfB players took this change as an opportunity to leave the club, VfB was forced to build an almost new team, including Radunski. It quickly turned out that this team was not suitable for the first division. Before Radunski joined the league team as a right-back on matchday 8, VfB had already suffered five defeats and had a goal account of 9:27. By the end of the season Radunski played 25 point games, where he helped out four times as a goalkeeper. As a rule, he was in the right-back position and scored three goals. After the end of the season, VfB Pankow was bottom of the table and was relegated.

After the end of the season, a large part of the VfB team was taken over by the company sports community (BSG) unit Pankow. The BSG was incorporated into the DS-Oberliga instead of the VfB without any athletic qualifications at the behest of the GDR leadership, since the "capital of the GDR" had to have another first division team in addition to the BSG Motor Oberschöneweide . Again, several players left the Pankow team, so that a new structure had to be made. Radunski belonged to the old player base and was also in the 1951/52 season regular player in the league team of the BSG unit. This time he came to 34 league appearances, mainly as a left defender, but without scoring. As with VfB, the BSG had not succeeded in forming a team that could keep up in the top division. She also ended the season as relegated in the last place in the table with only five wins in 36 games and the worst goal difference of all 19 teams of 38:94.

There was a conciliatory end to the season with reaching the final of the GDR soccer cup. Unity Pankow had lost the semi-final game with 0: 1 against Lok Stendal , but the Stendal were then disqualified because of the involvement of an ineligible player. The Pankower contested the final against the SG Volkspolizei Dresden with Schmidt as a left-back . Unit Pankow had no chance against the runner-up last season and lost 3-0.

In the seasons 1952/53 and 1953/54 Radunski played with unit Pankow in the second-rate GDR league . 1954 the team was again on a relegation zone. The BSG unit then gave its soccer section to the BSG Lokomotive Lichtenberg. This was also taken over by Walter Radunski, who is now almost 30 years old and who was a goalkeeper for Lichtenberg in the third-class Berlin district league . He never returned to higher-class football.

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SURNAME Radunski, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1924