Willi Gibalowski

Willi Gibalowski (born January 11, 1940 ) is a former German football player who played second division football in East Berlin and Eisenhüttenstadt in the 1960s and 1970s .

Athletic career

In the 1958 calendar year season, the 18-year-old striker Willi Gibalowski played his first competitive games in the GDR-wide football game with the East Berlin Sports Association Lichtenberg 47 in the third-class II GDR league , after he had previously been active in the Lichtenberg youth division . When after the 1962/63 season (now in the summer-spring game mode) the second GDR league was discontinued, Lichtenberg 47 then had to continue playing in the now third-class city league East Berlin. Gibalowski, who had previously received several appointments to the East Berlin city selection, took this as an opportunity to switch to the SG Dynamo Hohenschönhausen police sports association . This was also based in East Berlin and played in the second-rate GDR league . There Gibalowski was a regular player for two seasons as a striker, only missed seven out of 60 league games and was successful with twelve goals.

The Central Club of the GDR People's Police became aware of Gibalowski and initiated the change to the SC Dynamo Berlin league team for the 1965/66 season . Gibalowski was not used in any game of the highest GDR division and returned to SG Lichtenberg after the winter break. He helped her at the end of the season to rise to the GDR league, where he played 14 of the 15 league games in the first half of the 1966/67 season.

With the beginning of the second half of the season Gibalowski moved to the GDR league club Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt , where he completed another eleven league games by the end of the 1966/67 season. 1967/68 he was used in 23 of the 30 GDR league games, but had no regular position, but was used alternately in all parts of the team, where he scored three times. His changing missions continued in the first half of the season 1968/69, but he played only five league games up to the 6th day of play and then retired from the squad of the GDR league team.

After Gibalowski had spent the 1969/70 season at BSG Stahl Finow in the third-class district league Frankfurt (Oder) , he rejoined Lichtenberg 47. The East Berliners had meanwhile been converted into the BSG EAB and also played third class. With the returnee Gibalowski they managed to return to the GDR league in 1971. This was played from 1971/72 in five seasons of 22 games each, Gibalowski was used 16 times, but remained without scoring. At the end of the season, at the age of 32, he was officially retired from the 1st team and should in future play with the 2nd team in the fourth-class district class. The BSG resorted to Gibalowki in the GDR league team five times in 1972/73 and again in 1973/74. After that, his career in higher-class football was finally over, in which he was called up in 128 GDR league games from 1963 to 1974 and had scored 20 goals.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1958–1974. ISSN  0323-8628
• New Germany : Born 1958–1974 ISSN  0323-3375
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 158.
• DSFS (ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949–1991 (Volume 8). Berlin 2011, p. 177.

Web links

• Willi Gibalowski is mentioned in the Märkische Onlinezeitung as a player in Finow