Dieter Schneider (soccer player)

Dieter Schneider
Dieter Schneider 1969
Personnel
birthday	October 20, 1949
place of birth	Louder / Sa. ,  GDR
position	goalkeeper
Juniors
Years	station
1958-1968	SC Empor / FC Hansa Rostock
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1968-1986	FC Hansa Rostock	349 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1967-1972	GDR juniors	18 (0)
1972-1974	GDR youngsters	16 (0)
1969-1973	GDR national team	3 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Dieter Schneider (born October 20, 1949 in Lauter / Sa. ) Was a soccer goalkeeper in the GDR . He played for FC Hansa Rostock in the top division of GDR football, the Oberliga , and is a three-time national player.

Athletic career

Dieter Schneider was born in Lauter / Sa. born where his father Rudolf Schneider later played football for the BSG Empor Lauter . When the upper league team of BSG Empor was integrated into SC Empor Rostock in November 1954 , Dieter Schneider came to Rostock with his father. From 1958 Rudolf Schneider worked as a youth trainer for SC Empor, in the children's team his son Dieter began to play as a goalkeeper. After he was promoted to the junior team, he was accepted into the squad of the junior national team in early 1967. There he played his first junior international match on April 16, 1967 in the encounter between the GDR and Poland (1: 1), until 1968 he had a total of 18 internationals with the junior selection. With the Rostock football club , which has since been separated from the entire club as Hansa Rostock , Schneider became GDR junior champion in 1968.

He made his debut in the men's division of FC Hansa in the 1968/69 season in the 2nd team, which played in the second-rate GDR league. When three goalkeepers, Jürgen Heinsch , Peter Below and Manfred Schröbler , were injured at Hansa at the same time, he was put in the gate on the 5th match day, September 15, 1968. When the injuries persisted in the league team, Schneider was used for the first time in the league in the league game 1. FC Magdeburg - FC Hansa Rostock (1: 1) on October 23, 1968, three days after his 19th birthday. He stayed in the 1st team until the end of the season. In November 1968 he came in the second round of the trade fair cup 1968/69 for his first two appearances in the forerunner competition of today's UEFA Cup , but Hansa was eliminated against Fiorentina .

In the following year 1969/70 Rostock was fourth in the previous year and qualified for the trade fair cup 1969/70 , in which Schneider played in the second leg of the first round, but otherwise Below and Heinsch were in the goal of the Hanseatic League, which was in the second round of the competition failed at Inter Milan . With the twelfth place in the league this season, in which Schneider was again the regular goalkeeper with 16 appearances, the sporting decline of the Rostock began at the same time, which in the following years, with the exception of the 1973/74 season, finished in the lower half of the table and in 1974 / 75 eventually relegated to the second-rate league . In 1973/74 Schneider had to give up his regular place to Bernd Jakubowski, who was three years his junior , and was only in goal in ten league games. After a year he was back in front with 15 appearances and from 1975 was again the undisputed number one in goal. Jakubowski left Rostock in 1976 for Dynamo Dresden .

After five years, in which Rostock as an elevator team commuted between the upper league and the second-class league, in 1980/81 they managed to stay in the top East German division. Until 1984/85 Hansa then played with final placements in the lower half of the table against renewed relegation, which could not be prevented in 1985/86 . Schneider, who had prevailed against goalkeeping talents like Ronny Teuber , Axel Hauschild and Jens Kunath in the Hanseatic goal in previous years , then ended his active career, during which he had worked exclusively for FC Hansa.

Between 1968 and 1986 Schneider played a total of 279 appearances in the major league, 50 games in the second-rate league for the first team plus 20 in the promotion round, 41 FDGB Cup games and three appearances in the European Cup. Between 1969 and 1973 he had also made three appearances in the national soccer team of the GDR , in which, however , he could not prevail against his Zwickau goalkeeper competitor Jürgen Croy . Schneider completed his first international match on July 9, 1969. In the game between the GDR and Egypt , he was substituted on for Croy in the 75th minute. In the young national team, however, Schneider was called up in 16 international matches. At the 1972 Olympic Games , Schneider was a member of the GDR national team that won the bronze medal. Schneider was not used, however.

As groundsman for Rostock's home ground, the Ostseestadion , Schneider continued to work for FC Hansa even after his active career.

literature

• Robert Rosentreter , Günter Simon: Always close to the wind. 40 years of FC Hansa Rostock . Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89533-504-5 , p. 205
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 444.
• Crossways, Klaus. Football in the GDR , part 4

Web links

• Dieter Schneider in the database of weltfussball.de
• Dieter Schneider in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Dieter Schneider at hansanews.de
• Dieter Schneider in the database of the German Football Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ fc-hansa.de: Unsinkable since 1965: White and blue goalkeepers from Hansa's history. March 27, 2020, accessed March 28, 2020 . 
2. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Dieter Schneider - Matches and Goals in Oberliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. May 1, 2014. Retrieved May 20, 2014.