Detlef Kranz

Detlef Kranz (born November 6, 1952 ) is a former German soccer player. From 1971 to 1974 he played for BFC Dynamo in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football . Kranz is a GDR junior and young national player.

Athletic career

As a high school graduate Detlef Kranz was a football player in the junior team of 1. FC Magdeburg . In 1970 he was accepted into the squad of the GDR junior national team and played eight junior internationals with them as a midfielder. In the game Soviet Union - GDR (0: 2) he scored his only international goal as a junior player on March 2, 1971.

After he graduated from high school in 1971 and began studying medicine at East Berlin's Humboldt University , he joined the upper division BFC Dynamo. This took him over for the 1971/72 season in the 2nd team, which played in the second-rate GDR league , and put him there in ten point games by the end of the season. After Kranz had proven himself in the first GDR league games, coach Geitel put him on November 28, 1971 for the first time in the league. In the match between BFC and  FC Carl Zeiss Jena  (1-0), he let the 19-year-old play in defense. By the end of the season, Kranz played a total of six league games, in which he was in the starting line-up four times. In the following two seasons he did not succeed in establishing himself permanently in the BFC's league team. In the 52 played point games, he was only used in 13 games. He played only six times from the start, and he scored his only top division goal on matchday 1 of the 1973/74 season in a 3-0 win over BSG Chemie Leipzig . During the same period he played in 44 GDR league league games of the 2nd team 26 times. From 1972 to 1973 he was a member of the GDR youth team , for which he played five international matches and scored one goal.

After the end of the 1973/74 season, Kranz ended his career in competitive sports. It was not until 1977 that he reappeared as a player in the third-rate East Berlin district division SG Hohenschönhausen . There he played until 1988, was always the team's most successful goalscorer and the team captain for several years.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1970–1974. ISSN  0323-8628 .
• Berliner Zeitung : Years 1977–1988. c / o zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 294.

Web links

• Detlef Kranz in the database of the German Football Association