Werner Linß (soccer player)

Linß as a national player in 1964

Werner Linß (born August 26, 1937 ; † August 2012 ) was a soccer player in the GDR Oberliga and a GDR national soccer player .

Life

The later regular inside striker Werner Linß began playing football as a student at SG Steinach immediately after the Second World War. At the age of 16, he was already playing in the first men's team, which has since started under the name BSG Motor Steinach . When Linß officially moved up to the men's division in 1955, his team played in the Suhl district league . In the following years, the trained locksmith was able to experience promotion twice, in 1956 in the third-class 2nd GDR league and in 1958 in the 1st GDR league . Steinach was only able to stay there for a year, so Linß had to spend three more years in the third division. When Motor Steinach was promoted to the first GDR league for the second time in 1962, the team got a bang and was promoted to the top GDR football league within one season.

Even as a second division player, Werner Linß came to honor international matches. During an Africa tour of the GDR national team in December 1962, he was used as a half-left player in the two games against Mali (2: 1) and Guinea (3: 2). In this position, however, Henning Frenzel and Dieter Erler conquered regular places, so that Linß stayed at these two international matches. In addition, he came to a mission in the B team.

Linß was initially more successful with his Steinacher team. The Thuringians surprised in their first league year with a 7th place ahead of the capital city club Dynamo Berlin . Overall, however, the Steinacher proved to be too weak and had to go back to the second division after their second season in the football club in 1965. Linß, who was the most unsuccessful striker of the motor team as a regular attacker with only one goal in both seasons, played a part in this. After all, he had made 48 appearances in a total of 52 Steinacher Bundesliga point games. He was also used in 60 games of the Suhl district soccer team. When Motor Steinach was relegated from the second-rate GDR league in 1975, Linß ended his active career at the age of 38. The city of Steinach had already awarded him honorary citizenship in 1969.

League overview
1955-1956	District league Suhl
1957-1958	II. GDR League
1959	I. GDR League
1960–1962	II. GDR League
1962/63	I. GDR League
1963-1965	Oberliga
1965-1975	GDR League

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• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 .
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 .
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .
• German sport echo . Sports publishing house, Berlin 1955 to 1975.