Wolfgang Barthels

Wolfgang Barthel ( born November 23, 1940 in Marienburg / West Prussia ) was soccer player in the DDR - Oberliga and played twice in the national football team of the GDR.

Raised in Thuringia Barthel played in his youth from 1950 to 1953 at Tractor Plaue. In 1954 he moved to Rostock, where he logs in to unit of Rostock, this time number 1 in Rostock football. With the establishment of the SC Empor Rostock in November 1954 Barthel's changed there. After he was first inserted into the youth teams and the Reserveelf, Barthel came on 18 May 1959 in a friendly match against the city of Shengyang selection (2-0) for the first time in the league team to use. A month later, he played against Motor Zwickau (June 14, 3-0 ) on the right wing position his first league point game.

Already on March 8, 1959, Barthel in the game of GDR youth team against England on his first international use. At 4-3 he immediately contributed a goal. Eight times he played in the youth team, later he played three junior and four B- internationals. On 17 December 1963, on 12 January 1964 he was employed in the games of the GDR national team against Burma and Ceylon. When 12:1 victory over Ceylon after just three minutes scored the first goal for the GDR - it was also the 100th goal in the history of the national team. Although he still scored another goal in this game, Barthel could not prevail against the Right Wing Nightingale and horse mackerel, so it remained in these two countries play. 1964 belonged Wolfgang Barthel in the squad of football Olympic team of the GDR, who won the bronze medal in Tokyo. He played two games in the European qualifying round and the encounter DDR - Mexico in the preliminary round of the Olympic tournament in Tokyo, where he scored the opening goal in the 2-0 victory.

In Rostock Barthel had become on the right striker position to a fixed size. In his eleven-year league career (1959 - 1970) the so-called Silberära the SC Empor / FC Hansa fell, the team won four times and was the runner-up twice in the final of the East German Football Cup. Curiously, Barthel's never stood in the Cup finals. When he had 1969/70 his last league game contest with the end of football season, stood for him 221 point league games to book, in which he had scored 45 goals. In the Rostock record lists Barthel comes so each of the top 10, rank 8 in league games, 7th place in the league scorers.

In following his club Rostock time Barthel played from the 1970 - 1975 at the BSG navigation / port of Rostock, with which he rose to the second-rate DDR League 1972. After ending his active career, he worked as a sports teacher at a vocational school in Rostock and was coach of the F -Jugend FC Hansa.

  • 221 DDR - Oberliga games
  • 45 league goals
  • 24 East German Cup games ( 4 goals)
  • 6 European Cup games ( 1 goal)
  • 2 'A' matches ( 2 goals)
  • 3 Olympic team games (1 goal )
  • 4 B internationals
  • 3 young Internationals
  • 8 Junior Internationals
  • National football team (DDR )
  • GDR citizens
  • German
  • Olympian (DDR )
  • Born in 1940
  • Man
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