Wolfgang Benkert

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Wolfgang Benkert
Personnel
Surname Wolfgang Benkert
birthday July 1, 1951
place of birth Weimar ,  GDR
size 186 cm
position goalkeeper
Juniors
Years station
1959-1960 BSG Post Weimar
1960-1965 BSG Motor Weimar
1965 SC Turbine Erfurt
1965-1969 SC Motor / FC Carl Zeiss Jena
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1970-1971 BSG Motor Weimar
1971-1985 FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt 270 0(0)
1972-1973 FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt II at least 1 0(0)
1986-1987 BSG Sachsenring Zwickau 46 0(0)
1987-1988 BSG Robotron Sömmerda 26 0(0)
1988-1990 BSG Motor Weimar 45 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1973 DDR U-21 2 0(0)
1982-1983 DDR Olympia 6 0(0)
1984 GDR 1 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Wolfgang "Molli" Benkert (born July 1, 1951 in Weimar ) is a former German soccer goalkeeper .

Athletic career

League football

In his youth, Wolfgang Benkert played for BSG Post Weimar, BSG Motor Weimar , RWE's predecessor SC Turbine Erfurt and FC Carl Zeiss Jena . At the age of 19 he moved again to Erfurt and after his first appearances in the second-class league in the early 1970s, he became the goalkeeper of the Oberligaelf of FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt . With the Blumenstädtern he managed to return to the top division of GDR football after winning the league relay E 1971/72 through the successfully completed promotion round . He had (14 games) shared the position between the Erfurter Pfosten with ex-selection goalie Horst Weigang (15 matches) and Klaus Reßler (one mission). In the upper house he made his debut at the start of the season 1972/73 in the 0-3 home defeat against BSG Sachsenring Zwickau .

Between September 1972 and November 1985, Benkert played in 256 first division games in the Thuringian goal. At the turn of the year 1985/86 he moved to BSG Sachsenring Zwickau , where the goalkeeper was used in 13 other league games from the start of the second half . However , the industrial champion and his teammates could not avert the descent of West Saxony, where he pushed Andreas Narr to the bench and then to the same behind Dirk Heyne at 1. FC Magdeburg , from the top division. After a year of playing in the second division with the Zwickauers, the goalkeeper still played in the league for BSG Robotron Sömmerda and from summer 1988 again for his home community Motor Weimar. After the reunification, Benkert worked as a player- coach at SV Borussia Wuppertal .

Selection gauges

In 1973, he played two international matches in the GDR youth team . For the soccer Olympic team of the GDR Benkert came in the years 1982 and 1983 to six test matches before he was replaced as number 1 for the qualifying games for the tournament in Los Angeles by René Müller . At the age of 33, he played his only international match for the GDR national soccer team on September 12, 1984 in Zwickau against Greece , when he was substituted on for Auer goalkeeper Jörg Weißflog in the 86th minute . The Erfurt goalkeeper only came to this mission because the GDR national team played two games at two different locations on that day. While a team with the regular team competed against England in London , Benkert played with a second team against Greece and won the game in the Georgi-Dimitroff Stadium 1-0 against the southern Europeans.

Trivia

When he was voted Erfurt Footballer of the Century in 2000, Wolfgang Benkert came third behind Jürgen Heun and Helmut Nordhaus .

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personal data
SURNAME Benkert, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Benkert, Molli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar