Walter Schmidt (soccer player, 1928)

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Walter Schmidt (born May 2, 1928 ) was a soccer player and soccer coach in the GDR . As a player, he was GDR champion with Turbine Halle and GDR cup winner with SC Chemie Halle-Leuna . As a trainer, he led Halleschen FC Chemie in the UEFA Cup competition.

Soccer career

player

As a 22-year-old, Walter Schmidt joined the GDR upper division Turbine Halle in 1950 . After a disappointing sixth place after the end of the league season 1950/51, Halle was able to build on the success of 1949 in 1951/52, when it was East Zone Champion , and won the GDR championship. As a right half- forward , Walter Schmidt was part of the so-called "magic square" with the runners Rappsilber , Knefler and the left half- forward Schleif , the guarantors of championship success. In the fall of 1951, Schmidt was also a member of the “core football team” of the German Sports Committee, the forerunner of the later national soccer team of the GDR. In the following season 1952/53 Turbine experienced a surprising crash, was able to save itself with 13th place out of 17 teams just before relegation. After that, Schmidt was one of the few players who did not leave the team out of disappointment with the suppression of the popular uprising of June 17, 1953 . Despite the bloodletting, Turbine Halle was able to keep in the top league in 1953/54. In the summer of 1954, the soccer players of the BSG Turbine had to switch to the soccer section of the newly founded SC Chemie Halle-Leuna. Although Otto Werkmeister , Karl Ebert and Walter Schmidt were still three master players in the 1954/55 season, the footballers of the new club had to be relegated from the league at the end of the season. With the help of Walter Schmidt, the club rose again immediately in 1956. In addition, the Halle team managed the feat of winning the GDR soccer cup as a second division team. With Schmidt as the half-left striker and team captain, SC Chemie defeated the upper division ASK Vorwärts Berlin 2-1 in the final on December 16, 1956 . Schmidt remained active with chemistry in the league for two more years, at the end of 1958 he ended his career as a football player after seven league seasons in which he had played 153 games and scored 16 goals.

Trainer

Schmidt continued his football career as a coach at the fifth division team Stahl Hettstedt . In 1962 he led the steelworkers into the Halle district league , in which the team was able to hold up until his departure in 1967. In 1965, under Schmidt's leadership, Hettstedt won the district cup and took part in the GDR Cup season 1965/66. There the team defied the second division Dynamo Eisleben in the first round with a 2: 2 and only lost 3: 5 in the replay. In 1967 Schmidt went back to Halle, where he became a junior coach at the successor club of SC Chemie, the Halleschen FC Chemie. In 1969 he led the Halle juniors to the GDR junior championship. This success prompted the club officials to use Schmidt in the 1969/70 season as coach of the league team, which had only just barely escaped relegation in the previous season. After a 10th place in his first season as a league coach, Schmidt surprisingly led HFC to third place in 1970/71 and thus into the UEFA Cup competition in 1971/72 . There he experienced the fire disaster in the first round before the second leg at PSV Eindhoven, in which his player Wolfgang Hoffmann was killed. The HFC then withdrew its team from the competition. 1973 Schmidt rose with the HFC from the league and was replaced by Günter Hoffmann . Then he was no longer represented in higher-class football events.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1956 the football season was changed to the calendar year rhythm until 1960.

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SURNAME Schmidt, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1928