Dirk Ketzer

Dirk Ketzer (born September 14, 1964 ) is a German football player with short-term assignments in the GDR Oberliga , the highest East German football class, for both 1. FC Magdeburg and 1. FC Union Berlin .

Soccer career

After Dirk Ketzer had played in the student team of BSG Turbine Magdeburg for a year at the age of ten in 1974/75 , he went to 1. FC Magdeburg, where he went through all the youth teams. As a junior player, he played 15 international matches with the U-21 national team of the GDR. For the 1982/83 season he was included as a defender in the squad of the league team, but had already in the previous season on May 22, 1982 in the encounter 1. FC Lok Leipzig - 1. FC Magdeburg (3-2) as a substitute for Axel Tyll made a 21-minute debut in the major league. The hopes for another league career were initially not fulfilled. Although heretic was always nominated for the league team up to the 1984/85 season, he was never used there and instead played in the third-class district league team 1. FC Magdeburg II. From the 1985/86 season he was officially only for the 2nd team reported.

In view of the lack of perspective, Ketzer, who had meanwhile started studying sports and history, switched to the first division club 1. FC Union Berlin in the summer of 1987. But even there, there was little use in the league team for the 1.80 m tall defender. He was only used in the second half of the 1987/88 season, but played only five games, only two over the full distance.

Major league point games for 1. FC Union:
(date, opponent, result from the Union perspective, minutes played - A = away game, e = substituted on)

March 19, 1988, Carl Zeiss Jena 1: 2 (A), 18 e

March 26, 1988, Stahl Riesa 2: 1 (A), 6 e

April 6, 1988, Wismut Aue 0: 1 (A), 90

May 28, 1988, FC Karl-Marx-Stadt 3: 2 (A), 90

Then Ketzer made another change and went to the second-rate GDR league club Motor Schönebeck , near his hometown Magdeburg . Here he stayed until the end of the 1990/91 season. He then returned to Magdeburg and played for his first club, which had changed from BSG Turbine to SV Fortuna after German reunification. With him he rose in 1996 to the fourth-class football league Northeast . At the age of almost 33, Ketzer ended his competitive sports career in the summer of 1997. For a few years he was still active as a recreational footballer with the small Magdeburg club FSV 1895. From 2006 to 2009 he was a coach at Fortuna Magdeburg.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1975–1988. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 247.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pp. 296, 332.

Web links

• Dirk Ketzer in the database of the German Football Association
• Dirk Ketzer on immerunioner.de