Bernd Bransch (24 September 1944 – 11 June 2022) was a
footballer
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...
from
East Germany
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...
who played as a
sweeper.
Career
Bransch began his sporting career as a youngster at BSG Motor Halle-Süd. The son of a locksmith was then allowed to join
sports club
A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports.
Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...
SC Chemie Halle in 1954. Bransch played throughout his career for SC Chemie Halle and its successor,
Hallescher FC Chemie – except for the 1973/74 season, in which he played for
FC Carl Zeiss Jena
FC Carl Zeiss Jena is a German football club based in Jena, Thuringia. Formed in 1903 and initially associated with the Carl Zeiss AG factory, they were one of the strongest clubs in East Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s, winning the DDR-Ober ...
.
In 1968 and 1974 he was honoured as
East German Footballer of the Year
The title Footballer of the Year (German: ''Fußballer des Jahres'') has been awarded in Germany since 1960. Eligible are German players as well as non-German players playing in Germany. In 1996, the title Women's Footballer of the Year (German ...
.
Bransch participated in the
Munich Olympics 1972, in which his
East German
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...
team secured a bronze medal, and in the gold-medal winning
Montreal Olympics 1976 side.
He also played in the
1974 FIFA World Cup.
In total Bransch played 317 league games, scoring 43 goals.
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1944 births
2022 deaths
Sportspeople from Halle (Saale)
People from the Province of Saxony
German footballers
East German footballers
Footballers from Saxony-Anhalt
Association football sweepers
East Germany international footballers
Olympic medalists in football
Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Footballers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Footballers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Olympic footballers of East Germany
Olympic gold medalists for East Germany
Olympic bronze medalists for East Germany
1974 FIFA World Cup players
DDR-Oberliga players
FC Carl Zeiss Jena players
Hallescher FC players
Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
People from Bezirk Halle