Frank Baum (soccer player)

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Frank Baum
Personnel
birthday January 30, 1956
place of birth Zwenkau ,  GDR
position Defense ( Libero )
Juniors
Years station
1962-1967 BSG activist Zwenkau
1967-1974 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1974-1988 BSG Chemie Leipzig 51 (7)
1978-1989 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig 202 (6)
1989-1990 BSG Chemie Böhlen 27 (6)
1990-1992 FC Sachsen Leipzig 26 (3)
1992-1994 VfB Zwenkau 02
1995 1. SV Gera 3 (0)
1995-1997 SG LVB Leipzig
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1984-1985 DDR U-21 4 (1)
DDR Olympia 11 (1)
1979-1986 GDR 17 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1995-1997 VfB Zwenkau 02 (player-coach)
SG LVB Leipzig
Kickers 94 Markkleeberg
since 2003 SG LVB Leipzig
1 Only league games are given.

Frank Baum (born January 30, 1956 in Zwenkau ) was a football player in the GDR Oberliga , where he played for BSG Chemie Leipzig and 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig . With the locomotive team, he was three times GDR Cup winner . Baum is a 17-time national player and won the silver medal at the 1980 Olympic football tournament.

Athletic career

Youth and Chemistry Leipzig

Frank Baum grew up in his birthplace Zwenkau as the son of a soccer player. When he was seven, his father brought him to his company sports association (BSG) activist Zwenkau , where Frank Baum began his footballing career. In 1967 the BSG delegated him to the region’s soccer focus, 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig. Here he went through all of the club's junior teams up to the junior team and completed an apprenticeship as an electrician. Baum won the GDR championship in the junior league in 1973/74 with the U-18s of 1. FC Lok . Nevertheless, the club saw no perspective for Baum, as he had repeatedly been thrown back in his development in the past by four broken legs. In the summer of 1974 he was delegated to the neighboring BSG Chemie Leipzig. The chemists had just been relegated from the league, but managed to get promoted again with the participation of Baum, who played 17 second division games in his first season in the men's division (eight of them in the promotion round). His coach Karl Schäffner attested to him: "Frank is technically very talented, has a good shot, and above all, he brings the necessary love and obsession with football." (Deutsches Sportecho, April 4, 1975)

In the summer of 1975 Baum's first league season began, in which he played his way into the starting eleven with 22 of 26 possible point games. He made his debut in the major league on August 27, 1975, the second game day of the season. In the encounter between Rot-Weiß Erfurt and Chemie Leipzig (4: 1) he was used as the central midfielder, and he usually kept this position for the entire season. At the end of the season, the BSG Chemie Leipzig had to relegate again to the second-rate GDR league . In the following two seasons tree was used in 42 of the 44 second division games.

1. FC Lok Leipzig

After chemistry missed the rise twice, Baum moved within the trade fair city for the 1978/79 season back to the first division club 1. FC Lok Leipzig. After a few experiments in different positions, Baum found his future regular place as a Libero by the eighth day of the game . In his first season at Lok, he played 20 league games and seven national cup games. He was also used in a UEFA Cup game. Although tree was only able to play 14 point games in the 1980/81 season and had not played a cup game before, he was in the final of the FDGB Cup on June 7, 1981 . With a 4-1 win over FC Vorwärts Frankfurt , Leipzig won the cup and Baum won his first men's title. In 1986 and 1987 Baum won the GDR Cup for the second and third time.

After winning the 1981 cup, 1. FC Lok started a successful season in the European Cup Winners' Cup , in which it advanced to the quarter-finals. Baum was involved in all eight encounters. Lok Leipzig was even more successful in the same competition in 1986/87 when the final was reached. After Baum had already played six of the previous eight European Cup games, he was also in his regular position as Libero in the final on May 13, 1987 against Ajax Amsterdam, which was lost 1-0 in Athens.

Apart from the 1983/84 season, when Baum only played seven times in the league, Baum was the standard Libero of 1. FC Lok until 1987 and team captain from 1985 to 1988. After only six league games in 1987/88, he played his last first division season in 1988/89 at the age of 33. Once again he completed 25 point games, plus two FDGB and four European Cup games. Baum played his last league game on the last match day of the season, June 3, 1989. After starting most of the season's league games, he was in the 71st place for the last time in the game Lok - Carl Zeiss Jena (2: 1) . Minute came on. So he had come to 202 league games for 1. FC Lok Leipzig, in which he was able to score six goals as a defensive player. In the games for the FDGB Cup he was used in 35 games (3 goals), in the European Cup he played 32 times (3 goals). From 1985 to 1988, Baum was team captain at 1. FC Lok.

Farewell to the playing career

After the end of his career as a high-performance athlete, Baum played in the 1989/90 season for GDR league club BSG Chemie Böhlen and achieved promotion to the top division with the Rand-Leipzigers . After Böhlen merged with the former BSG Chemie Leipzig in the summer of 1990 to form FC Sachsen Leipzig , Frank Baum played again in the top division of the state in the 1990/91 season and in the following season with the Leutzschern in the third-class NOFV upper league of the reunited German League system. At the age of 36, he went to the fourth-class district league for VfB Zwenkau 02 , the successor club to his home BSG. In the season 1994/95 Baum played after the turn of the year in the NOFV-Oberliga , which is now fourth-class after the introduction of the regional league, in the southern season at the Wismut successor 1. SV Gera .

National player

Six months after his return to the GDR Oberliga, Baum was appointed to the GDR national team for the first time on February 28, 1979 . In the friendly game Bulgaria against the GDR (1-0) he was used as a left defender. It was his handicap that his club position of the Libero in the national team was occupied for a long time by Hans-Jürgen Dörner , so that he was only used twice on this. In one of these encounters (GDR - Soviet Union on May 7, 1980) it was the Olympic selection that was statistically listed as A-Elf, and in the other game (GDR - Greece on September 12, 1984) it was a second representation because the first set played against England in London on the same day .

As a rule, Baum was called up on the left defensive side, as at the beginning of his national team career. Within eight years, Baum played in 17 full international matches, 13 of which he completed over the full season. He played in two World Cup and three European Championship qualifiers, but did not make it to the final round with the GDR selection.

In 1980, Baum was part of the GDR squad for the Olympic football tournament in the Soviet Union. He played two of the three preliminary round matches, the quarter-finals and the semi-finals and stood on August 2, 1980 in Moscow in the final against Czechoslovakia. While Baum had played the previous games as a right defender, he was in the right midfield in the final. The GDR won the silver medal after losing 1-0 in the final. With his teammates he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze in the same year .

Coaching career

From 1995 to 1997 Baum was a player trainer at the Leipzig Transport Company Sports Association . He then worked as a coach at Kickers 94 Markkleeberg and the A-youth of VfB Leipzig . In 2003 Baum took over the training of the 1st men's team of SG LVB Leipzig in the Leipzig district league.

successes

  • GDR Junior Champion: 1974 (1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig)
  • GDR league climbers: 1975 (BSG Chemie Leipzig) and 1990 (BSG Chemie Böhlen)
  • FDGB Cup winners : 1981 , 1986 , 1987 (1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig)
  • European Cup finalist in the cup winners competition: 1987 (1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig)
  • Silver medalist Olympic Games: 1980 (5 games, no goal for the GDR)

literature

Web links

  • Frank Baum in the database of weltfussball.de
  • Frank Baum in the database of fussballdaten.de
  • Frank Baum in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
  • Frank Baum in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Frank Baum - Matches and Goals in Oberliga . RSSSF.com . June 15, 2015. Accessed January 30, 2020.
  2. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Frank Baum - International Appearances . RSSSF.com . June 15, 2015. Accessed January 30, 2020.
  3. ^ New Germany , August 22, 1980, page 4
personal data
SURNAME Baum, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwenkau