Werner groom

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Werner Bräutigam (born October 12, 1949 in Plauen ) is a former soccer player. For the BSG Sachsenring he was in the top division of GDR football , the Oberliga , and won the national cup competition with the company sports club from Zwickau in 1975 .

Soccer career

Via Plauen to Zwickau

Groom played for the BSG Wema Plauen until 1974 , most recently in the third-class district league Karl-Marx-Stadt . A year earlier, Plauen had been relegated from the GDR league , and when the hoped-for resurgence did not succeed, at the age of 24, at the beginning of the 1974/75 season, Bräutigam moved to the nearby top division club Sachsenring Zwickau. Here the 1.81-meter-tall attacking player was set up as a replacement for the 30-year-old center forward Hartmut Rentzsch . He was already used on the first game day of the season, August 24, 1974, in the league team. In the league game between FC Carl Zeiss Jena and Sachsenring (1-0) he came into the team as a center forward for Rentzsch in the 65th minute. At the end of the first half of the season, Bräutigam continued to play sporadically in the storm, in the last three point games for the injured Ludwig Blank as a right striker. After Rentzsch had finished his senior league career at the end of the year, Bräutigam took over his position and played all thirteen point games as a center forward until the end of the season.

Successful in the cup

In the 1974/75 cup round, Bräutigam played four of the seven games of the Sachsenring team with which they reached the final of the GDR soccer cup . In the semi-final second leg at Wismut Aue, Bräutigam scored the goal of Zwickau, so that after the 1-0 first leg win, despite a 1: 2 defeat due to the away goals rule, they came into the final. The final against Dynamo Dresden had to be decided by a penalty shoot- out, Bräutigam was one of the successful shooters for the 4-3 victory with which Sachsenring won the FDGB Cup for the third time and Bräutigam had his only title win in his football career. In the subsequent games of the Sachsenring team in the European Cup Winners' Cup 1975/76 , with which the Zwickau surprisingly advanced to the semifinals, Bräutigam played six of the eight matches. In two games he had to pause due to a field reference he had in the game at Fiorentina (0-1).

Sachsenring's successful goalscorer

Groom was regularly used as a center forward until the end of 1976 and was Zwickau's top scorer with five goals in the 1975/76 season. In the second half of the 1976/77 season he was called up several times as a right striker, while Gerd Schellenberg moved into the center of the storm. From autumn 1977 the right side of the storm finally became the groom's regular position. In the 1977/78 season he was the only Zwickau major league player who played all 26 point games. In the years that followed, Bräutigam was part of the team's core with more than 20 point matches. Both 1979 and 1980 (here together with Uwe Fuchs ) he was again Sachsenring's most accurate shooter with five or four goals. He completed his last league season in 1980/81, in which the now 31-year-old played another 17 point games. In the 21st season point game Sachsenring - Vorwärts Frankfurt (0: 2) on April 15, 1981, he was used for the last time in the league when he came on again in the 68th minute as a center forward. After this game, Bräutigam could look back on 153 league games in which he had scored a total of 27 goals.

End of career in Plauen

In the summer of 1981, at the age of 32, Bräutigam returned to his former sports club Wema Plauen, where he remained active in the district league for a few years. After the final end of his career as a soccer player, Bräutigam settled in Zwickau again. Occasionally he played there in the traditional team of FSV Zwickau, the successor club of BSG Sachsenring.

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SURNAME Groom, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1949