Heiko Liebers
Heiko Lieber ( born December 18, 1967) is a former German football player. For the 1st FC Locomotive Leipzig he played in the DDR - Oberliga, the highest East German league. As second-and third-division player, he was a prolific scorer. Lieber is a multiple DDR junior national team.
Football career
Youth players
The first FC Locomotive Leipzig nominated Heiko Lieber's first time at the 1984/85 season as a striker for the junior league. In the previous season Lieber had won with the 16 -year-olds for the first FC Lok youth championship. In the summer of 1985, he was appointed to the cadre of the GDR national junior team, and as part of the " youth competitions of friendship" in Bulgaria, he played on July 13, 1985 against North Korea ( 7-1 ) his first Junior National team. In the 71st minute substitute in the 83rd minute, he scored the seventh goal for the GDR selection. After Lieber had denied all five games of the friendly tournament, he had to wait two years before it was used again in the junior selection. In the fall of 1987, at which time he played for second division motor Grimsby, he was part of the squad for the Junior World Cup 1987 in Chile. There, he played five of the six tournament games, including the match for third place, the front of 70,000 spectators won the East with a 3-1 on penalties to the hosts. Overall, Lieber played as a striker in the years 1985 and 1987, eleven junior internationals, in which he scored four goals.
First and second division football in the GDR
Already in the 1985/86 season Lieber graduated its first games in the men's area of the 1st FC Lok Leipzig. In addition to intervening with the 2nd team in the third-class district league, he played with the first team a Cup game. At its first use in the GDR Oberliga he came in the season 1986 / 87th In the encounter of the second game day bismuth Aue - FC Lok 1 (1-0 ) on 23 August 1986, he appeared as a substitute in the 77th minute. Meanwhile, he had also completed his training as a maintenance mechanic. End of 1986, Lieber was ausdelegiert the club and delivered to the DDR -Liga Team of motor Grimsby. There he captured immediately and lacked a regular place until the season end only in an official match. With six championship gates, he was still second best scorer of the Grimmaer. Also 1987/88 of 1.72 m wide Lieber was with ten goals Vice - scorer in Grimsby and played 29 of 34 league games. With 18 goals in the season 1988/89 he was not only the best shooter in motor Grimsby, he also landed at number four scorer in the DDR -Liga. In the championship, he played in all 34 games.
With its good performance in Grimsby Lieber was interesting again for the first FC Lok Leipzig, and he was brought back to the 1989/90 season in the Leipzig league team. However, he could not meet the expectations and did not get beyond the status of a replacement player. In the 26 league games of the season he was used between the 3rd and 20th Round only ten times and never played fully through. His only premier league goal he scored on the 15th game day, March 3, 1990, when he in the encounter 1.FC Lok - the agreement bismuth Aue (2:1) in 21 minutes 1-0. A better balance, he pointed to the cup matches of the season, he played four of the five matches and scored two goals. His last season in the GDR football game operation completed Lieber 1990/91 back in the DDR -Liga at the 1 FC Markham. There he was again able to play his goalscoring with 18 goals and was again top scorer of his team. He ended up fourth in the league scoring charts.
Third league in DFB - play operation
After German reunification was the former East German football players from 1990 the way open to the west. Lieber took advantage of this opportunity to join the 1991/92 season for two years to the Oberliga Hessen KSV Hessen Kassel. In the third division, he had no difficulty in establishing itself as a regular player. In the two seasons, he missed only two games point and went with 18 and 22 goals again successful hunting for goals. After a brief interlude in the league rivals Borussia Fulda 1993/94 Lieber played in the seasons 1995/96 to 1998/99 for the SC Neukirchen in the third-tier Regionalliga Süd now. He denied all the 134 point games and scored 54 Championship goals. In the season 1996/97 he was 20 goals again team scorer. His last non- league season, he completed 1999/2000 FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt. After that, he was active as an amateur footballer with different unterklassigen clubs in Hesse.