Ulf-Volker Probst
| Volker Probst | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| birthday | 3rd October 1964 | |
| place of birth | GDR | |
| size | 174 cm | |
| position | Forward / midfield / defense | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| BSG Chemie Meuselbach | ||
| -1981 | BSG NARVA Oberweisbach | |
| 1981-1983 | FC Carl Zeiss Jena | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1983-1986 | FC Carl Zeiss Jena II | at least 46 (8) |
| 1984-1986 | FC Carl Zeiss Jena | 37 (3) |
| 1997-1989 | 1. FC Union Berlin | 33 (3) |
| 1989 | BSG Rotation Berlin | 7 (0) |
| 1989-1994 | Eintracht Braunschweig | 150 (23) |
| 1994-1997 | VfL Wolfsburg | 70 (0) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Ulf-Volker Probst (born October 3, 1964 ) is a former German soccer player. For FC Carl Zeiss Jena and 1. FC Union Berlin he played in the GDR Oberliga , the highest East German division, and for Eintracht Braunschweig and VfL Wolfsburg in the 2. Bundesliga .
Soccer career
FC Carl Zeiss Jena
Ulf-Volker Probst comes from a Meuselbach family, whose seven brothers had dedicated themselves to playing football. His brother Ralph Probst played over 300 games in the GDR elite league. Ulf-Volker started out with the local company sports association (BSG) Chemie Meuselbach, played as a junior with BSG NARVA Oberweisbach and was delegated from there in 1981 to the Thuringian top club FC Carl Zeiss Jena. He was further used in youth football and won in 1984 with the second team of FC Carl Zeiss to rise in the second-rate DDR-Liga .
For the 1984/85 season, the 19-year-old Probst, who at that time was still completing an apprenticeship as a precision mechanic, was nominated for the first time for the top division team. Coach Dietmar Pfeifer used the 1.74-meter-tall striker in the league from the start, initially as a substitute, later as a center forward or left winger in the starting line-up. In his first league season, Probst came to 24 point games in 26 games played. However, this promising start was not continued. 1985/86 Probst was only used in eight league games as a substitute, and in the first half of the 1986/87 season he was only called up five times between the 6th and 12th matchday, only twice in the starting line-up. After three years, he retired with only 37 league games with three goals and four cup appearances without scoring at the end of 1986 at FC Carl Zeiss Jena.
1. FC Union Berlin
With the beginning of the second half of the 1986/87 season, Ulf-Volker Probst played for the first division club 1. FC Union Berlin, where Brother Ralph had been active since 1985. But even in Berlin, Ulf-Volker Probst did not get beyond the role of the substitute player. While he was in the starting eleven in only three games from the 13 league games until the end of the season in the summer of 1987 and played six more games as a substitute, he played twelve times in the league in 1987/88, mainly as a defender. In his twelve league appearances in 1988/89 he was only used in five games from the start, this time in midfield. At the end of this season 1. FC Union was relegated from the league, and after his 33 league games with three goals and seven cup appearances with three goals, Probst ended his career at Union.
2nd Bundesliga
He joined the GDR league club BSG Rotation Berlin in the summer of 1989 , where he played all matches as a midfielder until the 7th day of the GDR league season 1989/90. On October 3, 1989, like his brother Ralph, he fled the GDR via Hungary . He signed a contract with the second division club Eintracht Braunschweig and played his first game in the 2nd Bundesliga on December 2, 1989 when Eintracht Braunschweig v Schalke 04 (2-2) as a right striker. In the 75th minute he also scored his first goal for Braunschweig with the 2-1 opening goal. Probst immediately gained a regular place in the team, which he was able to defend as a striker and from 1992 as a defender until the end of his contract in the summer of 1994. Until the relegation of Eintracht in 1993, he played 120 of the 134 second division games played during his contract period, scoring 13 goals. 1993/94 Probst played for Eintracht Braunschweig in the northern season of the third-class amateur league .
After Braunschweig had missed an immediate return to the 2nd Bundesliga, Probst moved back to the 2nd Bundesliga at VfL Wolfsburg at the beginning of the 1994/95 season. There, too, he was used as a regular player in the defense from the start and missed only one point game in his first Wolfsburg season. In the two following seasons, the over 30-year-old had to pay tribute to his age and was only used 37 times in the 68 point games.
Further career
After the end of the 1996/97 season he moved to Austria. At FC Kufstein , Probst played in the 2nd division of the Bundesliga in 1997/98 . After his return to Germany, he remained active as a player-coach at the Thuringian district division SV Wacker Steinheid until 2003. He then became a coach at VfL Saalfeld in the Thuringia state class.
literature
- Andreas Baingo , Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pages 297 and 322.
- Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , page 371.
- Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .
- Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Player Lexicon 1963–1994 . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 , page 393.
- Hanns Leske : The GDR league players. A lexicon . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-392-9 , page 385.
Web links
- Ulf-Volker Probst in the database of the German Football Association
- Ulf-Volker Probst in the database of weltfussball.de
- Ulf-Volker Probst in the database of fussballdaten.de
- Ulf-Volker Probst in the database of transfermarkt.de
- Player profile at fcc-supporters.org
- Player profile at immerunioner.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Probst, Ulf-Volker |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd October 1964 |