Wolfgang Altmann

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Wolfgang Altmann
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Wolfgang Altmann (1978)
Personnel
birthday September 22, 1952
place of birth Markranstädt ,  GDR
size 179 cm
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
1970-1971 BSG Chemie Leipzig II 6 (0)
1971-1978 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig 155 (18)
1972-1974 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig II 9 0(0)
1978-1980 ASG forward Kamenz at least 17 0(3)
1980-1987 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig 170 (18)
1987-1990 TSG Markkleeberg 60 0(9)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1970-1971 GDR U-18 13 (0)
1972-1974 GDR offspring 10 (0)

Wolfgang Altmann (born September 22, 1952 in Markranstädt ) is a former German soccer player. He played in the GDR Oberliga , the highest soccer league in the GDR , for 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig , with which he won the GDR soccer cup three times . Altmann is a multiple junior and junior national player for the DFV .

Athletic career

BSG and club stations

Wolfgang Altmann began playing football in 1960 at the company sports community (BSG) Turbine Markranstädt . From there he moved to BSG Chemie Leipzig in 1969 , for which he first played in the junior league and then in the reserve eleven in the second-class league .

For the 1971/72 season Altmann was delegated to the Leipzig top club 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig . After his first game in the league on September 4, 1971, BFC Dynamo - 1. FC Lok (3-0), he temporarily held a regular place with midfield of the league team and came to a total of 18 game stakes. From November 1972 on, Altmann was a fixture in the midfield of 1. FC Lok. By the end of the 1977/78 season Altmann had already played in 148 league point games. The 1978/79 season he began with missions in the first seven league games, then he had to do his army service from November 1978 to May 1980. During this time he was active in the army sports community Vorwärts Kamenz in the district league, which he helped in 1979 to rise to the second division.

After completing his military service, Altmann was again a regular player in the first division team of 1. FC Lok from the 1980/81 season. The end of the season brought him his first major success. On June 7, 1981 , he was in the final of the GDR soccer cup , which the Leipziger won with Altmann as a midfielder 4-1 over forward Frankfurt. Altmann was able to repeat this triumph twice, on May 31, 1986 in a 5-1 win over 1. FC Union Berlin, where he scored the 1-0, and on June 13, 1987 with a 4-1 victory for Leipzig over Hansa Rostock. In 1986 he achieved the runner-up title with 1. FC Lok as the best result in the championship, before that he was third three times.

During Altmann's time at 1. FC Lok, the team played 51 games in the European cup competitions . Altmann was involved in 43 encounters. The Leipzigers were most successful in the 1973/74 UEFA Cup when they reached the semi-finals and in the 1986/87 European Cup Winners' Cup when Leipzig reached the final. Altmann did not play in the 1974 semi-finals against Tottenham Hotspur (1: 2, 0: 2) and in the 1987 final against Ajax Amsterdam (0: 1), but had contributed to the success in several previous games.

Until 1986 Altmann played regularly in the midfield of 1. FC Lok, but occasionally, during the 1983/84 season even mostly, helped out as a Libero . In the course of the 1986/87 season, the end of his career was indicated for the now 34-year-old with numerous substitutions and substitutions. 1987/88 Altmann played only seven league games in the first half of the season. His last appearance in the league was on October 17, 1987, when he played Union Berlin - 1. FC Lok (0: 2), where he played again in midfield for over 90 minutes. With this commitment he had come to 325 league games with 36 goals within 17 years. He also played 57 games in the GDR soccer cup (16 goals) and 43 European cups (1 goal).

In the autumn of 1987 Altmann moved to the GDR league club TSG Markkleeberg . For the Randleipziger he remained active in the second division until 1990.

Selection bets

From 1970 he was part of the squad of the GDR junior national team . He played his first U-18 international match on October 7, 1970 against the Soviet Union (0-0). Between 1970 and May 1971 he was used in a total of 13 games of this representative, in which he played both in midfield and in defense. At the 1971 UEFA youth tournament, the unofficial European championship in this age group, Altmann came third with the GDR team.

On May 1, 1972, he completed his first of ten U-21 internationals in the encounter between the GDR and Hungary . Until May 1974, the locomotive midfielder was part of the East German youth team.

Further career

After the end of his football career, he continued to be involved in Markkleeberg football. At the successor club of TSG, the Kickers 94 Markkleeberg , he was assistant coach of the first men's team in 2009.

Trivia

Despite the German-German division, he was always able to maintain his friendship with the West German professional footballer Gernot Rohr . After the fall of the Berlin Wall , both of them maintained their relationship between Saxony and France, without the influence of the East German state authority, where Rohr had settled in the course of his involvement with Girondins Bordeaux and also took on French citizenship.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The old man and pipe: If that's not a story? (Part 1). In: Markranstädter Nachtschichten. May 11, 2017. Retrieved April 30, 2019 .
  2. ↑ The old man and pipe: If that's not a story? (Part 2). In: Markranstädter Nachtschichten. May 12, 2017. Retrieved April 30, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Altmann, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Markranstädt