Gerd Heidler

Gert Heidler ( born January 30, 1948 in Drauschkowitz, Upper Lusatia ) was soccer player in the GDR. He played for Dynamo Dresden in the Serie A, the top division of the East German Football Association. With Dynamo Dresden he was five times football champion and won three times the GDR football trophy. Heidler is twelve times the national team, in 1976 he won with the East German Olympic team gold medal in the Olympic football tournament. Later he worked as a football coach.

Football career

League players

Heidler began his football career at SG Dynamo in Bautzen, Bautzen and then played for forward came as a 18 -year-old to motor Bautzen, where he played one year in the second-rate DDR -Liga. In Bautzen he completed an apprenticeship as Fernmeldmechaniker. The beginning of 1968 only 1.66 m wide attacking player has been delegated to the Oberliga side Dynamo Dresden.

In Dynamo Dresden he was employed in the second half of the 1967/68 season in four games as a striker, but he played only two games over the full distance. His first league game was the encounter of the 16th game day FC Carl Zeiss Jena - Dynamo (2-0) on 9 March 1968 in which he appeared as a substitute in the 64th minute. At the end of the season Dynamo stable relegated. With 14 of 30 discharged point games in the DDR -Liga Heidler was involved in the immediate resurgence of Dresden. In his second league season 1969/70 to Heidler won a regular place in the Dynamo team. In the 26 -point games, he was 21- times used and generated as a winger on both the right and on the left side of his first four league goals. A year later Heidler was able to celebrate his first title wins in the men's area. Dynamo Dresden won 1970/71 with Double the league and cup. Heidler was involved in the championship with 21 appearances and three goals and was on 2 June 1971, to 20 minutes in the cup final, the Dresden won 2-1 after extra time over the BFC Dynamo. Other championship titles won Heidler with Dynamo Dresden 1972/73 (22 missions, 4 goals ), 1975 /76 ( 25/6 ), 1976 /77 ( 23/8 ) and 1977 /78 ( 16/3 ). His second and third cup victory he celebrated in 1977 and 1982. Starting from 1975 he had finally found its common position on the left wing. In the season 1981/82 Heidler played his last league games. 33 - year old, he was still 15 times used, whereby he still attended most of the games over the full 90 minutes mainly as a right winger. On the penultimate season game day, May 22, 1982, he stood as a right winger for 90 minutes in Game FC Karl- Marx-Stadt - Dynamo Dresden (1-1) for the last time in a league game on the court. It was his 267th league game within 14 hours (76% of total matches played ), but he had scored 49 goals.

International assignments

Immediately after Heidler had won in 1969 with Dynamo Dresden the Oberliga - rise, he was appointed to the Executive of the East German junior national team. On 21 October 1969 he played his first junior international match in Hall against Czechoslovakia. In the 3-0 win, he played on the right wing. In 1974 he was with the youth team vice European champion after the two finals against Hungary (3:2, 0:4 ). Until 1974, he came in 23 junior internationals for use and scoring seven goals.

18 months after his last junior international match was Heidler on November 19, 1975 in his first senior international game on the court. In the friendly match Czechoslovakia - German Democratic Republic (1:1), he played back outside right. This remained his position in most of the twelve 'A' matches, at times he was also in midfield. Among his most important matches were the three World Cup qualifiers against Turkey ( 1:1 ), Malta ( 1-0) and Austria (1:1). Since Heidler had shown with only two gates as little successful striker, he was from 1978 by Dieter Kühn and Lutz own village ousted from his positions. That left the game DDR - Belgium (0-0 ) on April 19, 1978 Heidlers last international match. There is also a B- international match on 26 April 1977 ( East Germany - Romania 1:1).

His biggest international success was Heidler celebrate in the years 1975 and 1976 with the East German Olympic team, which was at times identical to the A- selection. His first game with the Olympic team, he completed on 29 October 1975 qualifier against the amateurs of Austria (1:0), even before he had played his first senior international. Until July 25, 1976 Heidler came in all the Olympic tryouts for use, among them were also the first four games of the Olympic tournament in Canada. At the end of the GDR won the gold medal, and although Heidler was not used in the final, he had also acquired with his three finals matches a gold medal. Overall, he played seven official matches with the Olympic team, including two 'A' matches against Czechoslovakia.

Of the discharged at times Heidlers 58 European matches he played 54 matches and thus ranks fourth in the GDR ranking. He scored 16 goals, of which seven in the UEFA Cup 1975/76. His most valuable European match, he denied on March 7, 1973 at the UEFA Cup quarter- final at Anfield against Liverpool ( 0-2).

Achievements

• GDR Champion 1971, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978
• East German Cup winner 1971, 1977, 1982
• Gold medalist at the 1976 Olympic Games
• Vice- champion of the junior European Championship 1974

Ministry of State Security

Gert Heidler is an example that top football players could prevail against Anwerbeversuches of the Ministry of State Security to defend successfully without her career took damage. 1974 was the State Security Service Heidler for the win, " securing the travel squad sport of SG Dynamo Dresden ". In several conversations Heidler refused spying against his team-mates from, so " taken from a distance further cooperation [ was ] ." Notwithstanding the foregoing was Heidlers career not only at Dynamo Dresden but also successful internationally, traveling to games in the West were not limited.

Coach

After he finished his career in 1982 as a football player, Heidler, who had in 1981 acquired the diploma to the sports teacher and later acquired the DFB football teacher's license was first youth coach at Dynamo Dresden. Following interludes in the NOFV- Oberliga Bishop FV 08 and FC Lausitz Hoyerswerda Heidler 2001 returned back to the youth department of Dynamo Dresden. In 2007, he was in the children's football school Soccer Academy coach his son Peter.