Frank Eschler

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Frank Eschler
Personnel
birthday September 24, 1970
place of birth GDR
size 174 cm
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
1976-1989 FC Carl Zeiss Jena
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1989-1997 FC Carl Zeiss Jena 85 (1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1990 DDR Olympia 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Frank Eschler (born September 24, 1970 ) is a former German soccer player .

Athletic career

Club career

Frank Eschler that from 1976 the youth department of FC Carl Zeiss Jena belonged and in the summer of 1989 for the junior league squad was reported to the Thuringian, moved during the turn of the season in the league team of the FCC on. On matchday 16, 1989/90, he made his debut under the former GDR A selection coach Bernd Stange in an away draw (1-1) against HFC Chemie . In his fourth game in the top division of GDR football , he scored his only point goal in the jersey of the Jena First . The midfielder scored in the 2-1 away win against BSG Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt to compensate for the three-time GDR champions .

In the last independent season of East German first division football , Frank Eschler was only used in four games and a total of 158 minutes. With his teammates he achieved direct qualification for the 2nd Bundesliga in the now all-German league football .

After reunification , he was part of the squad for six seasons from the Ernst Abbe sports field . In only two seasons, including when FC Carl Zeiss was immediately promoted from the regional league to the 2nd Bundesliga in 1994/95 , he played more than 20 point games. With the Jena team he won the Thuringian State Cup in 1995 . Eschler had to end his professional football career in 1997 at the age of 26. The last time he was on the field on March 8, 1996 in the 2nd division against Hertha BSC in the 4-2 away win for Jena, had to leave the field for 18 minutes with a torn muscle fiber .

Selection bets

With his first league appearances in the spring of 1990, Frank Eschler played himself into the field of vision of the DFV coach . With the Olympic selection of the GDR , which was about to dissolve , he stayed in the USA in the summer of that year and defeated the national team of the United States with his teammates in a friendship comparison with 2-1.

literature

  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Player Lexicon 1963–1994 . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 , page 126.
  • Hanns Leske : The GDR league players. A lexicon . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-392-9 , page 100.

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personal data
SURNAME Eschler, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1970