Günter Kubisch

Who was Günter Kubisch?

Günter Pumpel Kubisch was an East German football player.

Kubisch began to play football as a ten-year-old at SG Eintracht Sudenburg, one of the predecessors of 1. FC Magdeburg. He played in all of the club's youth teams and had his debut in the first team of the club—now called BSG Motor Mitte Magdeburg—on 29 June 1957 against Wismut Gera. Between 1957 and 1971 he played in 326 league matches, 29 FDGB-Pokal matches and 13 matches on the European stage for 1. FC Magdeburg and its predecessors. Altogether he won the national cup competition of East Germany, the FDGB-Pokal, three times and won promotion to the top-flight DDR-Oberliga with his club twice, in 1959 and 1967. In 1960, Kubisch scored the club's first ever Oberliga goal in the 2–0 victory over Empor Rostock. One of his dangerous freekicks provided the assist in Magdeburg's first goal on European level, scored by Peter Heuer in the match of SC Aufbau Magdeburg against Galatasaray S.K.

In 1961 Kubisch won his only call-up to the East Germany national football team, when he was subbed in in the 1–3 loss against Poland. Additionally, he once played in the B national side, seven times in the Under 23 and three times in the Under 18 national teams.