Wolfgang Altmann

Wolfgang Altmann ( born September 22, 1952 in Markranstadt ) is a former German football player. He played in the DDR - Oberliga, the highest football league in the GDR, for the first FC Locomotive Leipzig, with whom he three times the GDR football trophy won. Altmann is a multiple junior and junior national team.

Sports career

Wolfgang Altmann began playing football in 1960 by the Sports Association (SPA) turbine Markranstadt. From there he moved in 1969 to BSG Chemie Leipzig, where he played in the junior league. From 1970, he belonged to the squad of the GDR national junior team. His first junior international game he played on October 7, 1970 against the Soviet Union ( 0-0). Between 1970 and 1971 he was employed in 13 international matches of the junior selection, in which he played both in the midfield and in defense.

For the 1971/72 season Altmann was delegated to Leipzig's top club 1.FC locomotive. After his first game in the big leagues on September 4, 1971 BFC Dynamo - 1.FC Lok (3:0 ), he sometimes had already held a regular place with the middle of the league team in the rest of the season and came to a total of 18 points stakes. From November 1972 to Altmann was a fixture in the middle of the 1st FC Lok. In April 1972, he had completed his first of eleven junior internationals he played until 1974. By the end of the season 1977/78 Altmann had already been involved in 130 Oberliga - point games. The 1978/79 season he began operations in the first seven league games, after he had from November 1978 to May 1980 to do his military service. During this time he was active in the Army community forward Kamenz which in 1979 he helped to promotion to the second-rate DDR -Liga.

After completing his military service Altmann was from the 1980/81 season up again as a regular player in the league team of the 1st FC Lok. The end of the season earned him his first major success. On 7 June 1981 he was in the final of the East German soccer cup, the Altmann as a midfielder won the Leipzig 4-1 on Vorwärts Frankfurt. Could Twice Altmann repeat this triumph, on 31 May 1986 in a 5-1 over the first FC Union Berlin, where he scored the 1-0, and on 13 June 1987, a 4-1 win over the Leipzig Hansa Rostock. In the championship he reached in 1986 with the first FC Lok as the best result the runner-up title, three times before the 3rd place.

While Altmann's time for the 1st FC Lok denied the team's 51 games in the European Cup competitions. In 43 encounters Altmann was one of the party. The most successful were the Leipzig in 1973/74 by reaching the semi-final and in the Europa Cup Winners' Cup 1986/87, as Leipzig reached the final of the UEFA Cup. Altmann was true in the semi-finals in 1974 against Tottenham Hotspur (1:2, 0:2 ) and in the final in 1987 against Ajax (0-1) not there, but had previously contributed to the success in several games.

By 1986, Altmann played regularly in the midfield of the 1st FC Lok, but helped now and then, during the 1983/84 season even primarily, as a libero from. In the course of the season 1986/87 the career-ending hinted for the now 34 -year-olds through numerous Substitutions. 1987/88 Altmann played only seven league games in the first round. His last assignment in the league he had on 17 October 1987 at Game Union Berlin - 1 FC Lok (0:2), in which he again acted for 90 minutes in the midfield. With this commitment, he had come to 325 league games with 36 goals within 17 years. He also completed 57 games in the East German Football Cup (16 goals) and 43 European games (1 goal ).

In 1987, Altmann end to DDR -division club TSG Markham, for which he was active until 1990. Even after the end of his football player career, he engaged in further Markkleeberger football. In succession club TSG, the Kickers 94 Markham, he was assistant coach of the 2009 first men's team.