Gerd Backhaus

Gerd Backhaus ( born September 8, 1942) is a former football player who was active in the GDR. In the Serie A, the highest DDR game class, he played for the BSG Lok Stendal. He played three matches for the national football team of the GDR.

Career

With 19 years Backhaus 1961 was used for the first time in the league team of BSG Lok Stendal. The team was going through the phase of a lift team, and Backhaus had the same relegated to the second-rate DDR - Oberliga league at the end of his first season in the summer of 1962. In the following season succeeded the immediate resurgence, Backhaus was 19- goal top scorer. It began a five- year span in which the Stendaler been able to establish in the GDR football House of Lords.

Backhaus ' second league season was very successful. After he had already been used in the junior and the junior national team, he was born on December 17, 1963 for his first game in the national team and scored in Myanmar as a center forward the opening goal in a 5-2 victory. In the second match of the tour of Asia against Ceylon Backhaus had scored his second international goal. Since the position of center forward in the national team was firmly in the hands of Peter Ducke, Backhaus again came only on September 11, 1966 in the encounter between the GDR and Poland to play an international match. In the league season 1963/64, Backhaus was with 15 goals scorer in the league. In the following seasons 1964/65 and 1965/66 was back home with 12 and 10 hits top scorer of his team.

1966 was another high point in Backhaus ' career. On April 30th Lok Stendal stood with Backhaus as center forward in the final of the East German Football Cup, but lost to Chemie Leipzig 1-0. In the spring of 1967 Backhaus worked in two qualifying matches of the football Olympic team of the GDR against Greece and contributed a goal to the two 5-0 victories at. Later, however, the Olympic team failed to Bulgaria, so that Backhaus participation in the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico was denied. 1968 was also the year in which Backhaus played his last league season. Lok Stendal goodbye with his fifth final descent from the highest DDR - class football, but Backhaus remained his team in the second division faithful and remained active until 1975. As a league player, he was called up 140 times, scoring 63 goals. Behind Kurt Weissenfels he is now the second best league goalscorer Stendal.

After his football career Backhaus has graduated as an engineer and worked for the Deutsche Reichsbahn and Deutsche Bahn AG.

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