Willi Conrad

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Willi Conrad (born April 12, 1923 in Wittenberge ; † December 20, 2012 in Berlin ) was a football player in the top division of GDR football . In the GDR Oberliga he played in Leipzig for the BSG Chemie and the SC Lokomotive .

Sports career

Conrad began his short league career in the 1952/53 season with the company sports community (BSG) Chemie Leipzig. At that time he was already 29 years old and did not get beyond the status of a substitute player in the team. In the nine missions of his first league season he was mainly used as a left winger. Even when his immediate competitor Gerhard Helbig was lured away from league competitor Vorwärts Leipzig in the winter of 1952, among others with two other strikers, he was unable to take advantage of the opportunity. The left wing position was taken by Helmut Koitzsch , who was only a year younger . Under the new coach Alfred Kunze Conrad received a new chance at the beginning of the 1953/54 season. In the first four point games Kunze let him storm in place of the previous right wing, but then Conrad fell back to the substitute status. Of his 16 missions this season, he only played eight games over the full length of the game. Despite his moderate performance, Conrad, like most of his teammates and coach Kunze, was taken over by the newly founded SC Lokomotive Leipzig in September 1954. Up to the 8th matchday of the 1954/55 season he was used four times in the Oberligaelf, after which his career as a league player was over. In three seasons he had a total of 29 league stakes, in which he scored five goals. In 1955, the now 32-year-old Conrad moved to BSG Rotation Südwest Leipzig in the third-class II. GDR League .

After the end of his football career, Conrad was editor-in-chief at Sportverlag Berlin.

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personal data
SURNAME Conrad, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenberg
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 2012
Place of death Berlin