Wolfgang Blochwitz (8 February 1941 – 8 May 2005) was a

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goalkeeper In many team sports which involve scoring goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or intercepting o ...

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 ...

Playing career

During his club career he played for 1. FC Magdeburg (1960–1966) and

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 ...

(1966–1976). He made 275 appearances in the East German top flight. He played 17 matches (19 if Olympic matches were also counted) for the

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and was a backup keeper at the

1974 FIFA World Cup The 1974 FIFA World Cup was the tenth FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams, and was played in West Germany (and West Berlin) between 13 June and 7 July. The tournament marked the first time that the ...

Career after football

He was chairman at Carl Zeiss Jena between 1988 and 1990.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Blochwitz, Wolfgang 1941 births 2005 deaths Association football goalkeepers German footballers East German footballers East Germany international footballers 1974 FIFA World Cup players 1. FC Magdeburg players FC Carl Zeiss Jena players DDR-Oberliga players People from Mittelsachsen Footballers from Saxony