Arno Zerbe
Arno Zerbe (born November 24, 1941 in Selchow ; † January 19, 2012 in Leipzig ) was a long-time soccer player at 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig and its predecessors and played a game with the GDR national soccer team .
Career
Until 1957, Zerbe played as a student at the gates of Leipzig at the BSG Traktor in Cröbern and later at the BSG LVB Leipzig. There he was noticed as a footballing talent and, as usual in GDR sport , was delegated in 1958 to one of the two Leipzig football centers, the SC Rotation , one of the predecessors of today's 1. FC Lok. He also drew attention to himself in the local junior team, so that in November 1959 he was appointed to the junior national team of the GDR for the first time. Five more junior and three youth internationals followed. As a 19-year-old he joined the SC Rotation Leipzig league team in 1960 , where he played as a winger. His first league point game was the match on the 7th match day between SC Rotation and SC progress Weissenfels 4-2 (May 22, 1960), in which Zerbe played as a right striker. As a left winger, Zerbe was used in his only A international match on December 10, 1961 in Casablanca in the friendly against Morocco (2-0). However , he had no chance against his competitors in the outer positions Roland Ducke and Günther Wirth .
When Leipzig football was reorganized in 1963 and the future sole football focus was founded with SC Leipzig, Zerbe was one of the Leipzig players who were allowed to play in the supposed elite club. As is well known, football developed against the officials' plans and initially for local rivals BSG Chemie Leipzig , who became champions in 1964 and cup winners in 1966. In the last year Zerbes team, meanwhile restructured into 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig, was able to place itself in front of the chemists in the championship for the first time. But in 1969 Lok Leipzig reached the temporary low point in its history with the relegation to the second-rate GDR league , which, however, was followed by an immediate rise. The ex-national player Zerbe, however, had to travel through the soccer province for a year. Even in Zerbes’s times it was not enough to win the title at SC and 1. FC Lok. The Leipzig team were in the final of the GDR soccer cup in 1964 and 1970 - as a second division - but were subject to both SC Aufbau Magdeburg (2: 3) and FC Vorwärts Berlin (2: 4). Both times Zerbe was there as a right winger, but remained in both games without a goal.
As a 30-year-old, Arno Zerbe wanted to quit high-performance sport at the end of the 1970/71 season and end his career with the GDR league club BSG Chemie Böhlen . However, since he did not receive any clearance from his club management, he had to accept a three-month suspension and was only able to compete for Böhlen in November 1971. In his last active year, Zerbe helped the Böhlenern as team captain in 1977 to rise to the GDR league.
During his career as a football player, Zerbe completed an apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer. After 1990 he earned his living as a taxi driver.
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literature
- Hanns Leske, encyclopedia of GDR football . The workshop, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3
- Michael Horn, Gottfried Weise : The great lexicon of GDR football. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-536-8 .
- Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 .
- Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .
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| SURNAME | Zerbe, Arno |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Selchow |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 2012 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |