User:Dr.Smyslov/Günter Mikosch

Günter Mikosch (* 21. October 1948 in Hohndorf) is a German former footballer, who played for Energie Cottbus during 1975/1976 in the DDR-Oberliga, the top-level association football league of the GDR. Furthermore Mikosch played as a junior GDR national player.

Sports Career
In October 1966, Günter Mikosch played two international matches with the GDR junior national team as a junior player for the Betriebssportgemeinschaft (BSG) Energie Cottbus, where he played as a right wing striker. As a 20-year-old, he was called up by BSG Energie for the first time at the start of the 1968/69 season to play for the 1st men's team in the second-tier GDR league. After seven league match appearances, he was called up for military service in November 1968, but was given the opportunity to continue playing soccer in the GDR league at the Armeesportgemeinschaft Vorwärts Cottbus. Mikosch stayed there until 1974, with 121 appearances in the 137 league games played during that time, scoring four goals in total. When Vorwärts Cottbus was relegated at the end of the 1973/74 season, the site was disbanded and the soccer players were transferred to the third-class Bezirksliga club ASG Vorwärts Kamenz.

After one season in the Bezirksliga, Mikosch ended his service in the National People's Army and rejoined Energie Cottbus in the fall of 1975. The team had just been promoted to the GDR-Oberliga and Mikosch played there as a substitute for the first time on match day 12. After that, he played five more times as a striker. The 1975/76 season for BSG Energie ended with relegation, and Mikosch failed to make the starting lineup in the 1976/77 GDR league season. Of the 22 league games, he played only nine games, but scored one goal. In 1977/78, Mikosch played for the 2nd team in the district league.

For the 1978/79 season, he moved within the district league to BSG Lok Cottbus. After four seasons, BSG Lok Cottbus achieved the GDR League, where Mikosch played eleven games in the 22 league games. Lok Cottbus was only able to stay in the GDR league for one season in 1982/83, and for the almost 35-year-old Mikosch this meant the end of competitive football.