Wolfgang Schmidt (soccer player, 1940)

Wolfgang Schmidt (born October 31, 1940 ) was a football player in Karl-Marx-Stadt, today's Chemnitz . For SC Motor Karl-Marx-Stadt he was in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of the GDR Football Association (DFV) . He is a multiple junior and junior national player and was once in the B selection.

Schmidt was included in the squad of the GDR junior national team in 1958. At that time, his home club was SC Motor Karl-Marx-Stadt, the central Saxon football focus. By 1959 he played 12 junior internationals, in which he was used as a midfielder mostly on the left side. He then moved up to the junior national team, with which he completed six more international matches between 1960 and 1963. There, too, he first played in midfield, most recently he was a defender.

In the men's division of SC Motor, Schmidt played from the second half of the 1959 season in the third-class II. GDR league . As a striker or midfielder, he was involved in promotion to the I. GDR League . There he formed the midfield of SC Motor with Eberhard Winkler for two years . In the 1961/62 season he was part of the team that made it to the GDR league. He was in 38 of 39 league games and scored two goals as a midfielder. In May 1962 he was also used in the B international game GDR - Soviet Union (1: 1). Schmidt was also one of the main forces behind the Karl Marx townspeople in the 1962/63 league season. He started as a right midfielder, but moved to the central defense when Claus Rüdrich was not available in the second half of the season. He played all 26 point games. Schmidt also retained his defensive position in the first half of the 1963/64 season, in which he only suspended one point game. At the beginning of the second half of the season in early 1964, Schmidt was absent from the Karl-Marx-Städter league team until the end of the season. After 38 goalless league games, Schmidt no longer appeared in higher-class football.

literature

• 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 .