Frank Schulze

Frank Schulze
Personnel
birthday	March 21, 1970
place of birth	Riesa ,  GDR
size	187 cm
position	goalkeeper
Juniors
Years	station
1976-1982	BSG Stahl Riesa
1982-1988	SG Dynamo Dresden
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1988-1990	SG / 1. FC Dynamo Dresden	3 (0)
1990-1991	FC Victoria '91 Frankfurt / Oder	20 (0)
1991-1994	1. FC Dynamo Dresden	0 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1986	DDR U-16	2 (0)
1986	GDR U-17	at least 6 (0)
1987-1988	GDR U-18	5 (0)
1988-1989	DDR U-20	4 (0)
1989-1990	DDR Olympia	5 (0)
1990	Germany U-21	1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Frank Schulze (born March 21, 1970 in Riesa ) is a former German soccer goalkeeper. In the top division of GDR football , the Oberliga , he played for Dynamo Dresden and the FC forward successor FC Victoria '91 Frankfurt / Oder . Schulze played for the DFV and DFB selection teams .

Athletic career

Schulze began his football career in 1976 in his hometown with the company sports association (BSG) Stahl Riesa . At the age of twelve he moved up the Elbe to SG Dynamo Dresden. With the U-16 of the GDR he stayed at the European Youth Championships in Greece in May 1986 , but did not get a chance behind regular goalkeeper Thomas Lenhart in the five finals of the East Germans, which ended up in 4th place. In the autumn of 1986 he was appointed to the U-17 team of the DFV in the course of the start of qualification for the two-year European Junior Championship , for which he played the first two games in Group 5 against Sweden and Finland.

From the 1987/88 season, in which he won the championship title with the junior league team of Dynamos , he moved up to the U-18 national team of the GDR , with which he played five international matches. In the youth competitions of friendship in the summer of 1987 in Czechoslovakia , the GDR juniors with goalkeepers Heiko Jobst and Frank Schulze took 6th place.

The highlight of his time in the selection goal was July 27, 1988, when the Dynamo goalkeeper and his team finished third after a 2-0 win over Spain in the small final of the U-18 European Championship in Czechoslovakia . With the U-20 selection , which was brought back to life after qualifying again for the Junior World Championships, he took part in the World Cup in Saudi Arabia in 1989 and played all three games after which the preliminary round from the GDR was sealed.

In the summer before, Schulze, meanwhile trained as an industrial fitter, was nominated as the third goalkeeper behind Ronny Teuber and Jens Ramme for the top division team of SG Dynamo Dresden in the season 1988/89 . The 1.87 meter tall Schulze went into the following season with little chance of action behind Ronny Teuber and the newcomer Thomas Köhler , but was called up in three league games for the first time in the East German elite class and thus had his share in winning the GDR championship in 1990. He was also set up as a goalkeeper in the final of the FDGB cup competition on June 4, 1990, which he and his team, now playing as 1. FC Dynamo Dresden, won 2-1 against PSV Schwerin .

In the summer of 1989 Schulze was appointed to the newly formed East German Olympic team, with which he completed several test matches, five of which with him in goal against other national associations. Even before the start of the qualifying games for the 1992 Olympics, the team was withdrawn in the course of German reunification .

Before the last independent season of East German first division football , Schulze moved to the army club FC Vorwärts Frankfurt (Oder), which had been promoted back to the league after a two-year absence. In Frankfurt, Schulze was number one in goal from matchday 1 and played 20 of the 26 season point games. In December 1990 he ran once for the now all-German U-21 national team of the DFB. In the course of the 1990/91 season, the football club of the Army Sports Association forward changed to the civil FC Victoria '91 Frankfurt / Oder, which at the end of the season could only qualify as bottom of the table for the third-class amateur league .

Schulze returned to 1. FC Dynamo Dresden in the summer of 1991, the last East German runner-up to make the leap to the 1. Bundesliga . But as in his first year in the GDR league, Schulze again eke out a life as a substitute goalkeeper and in the three seasons up to 1994 did not play in a single game for points for Dynamo. After that, he had to end his career due to a sports disability.

literature

• Andreas Baingo , Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 .
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 .
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .
• Hanns Leske : The GDR league players. A lexicon . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-392-9 , page 488.
• Hanns Leske : Magnets for leather balls. Goalkeeper of the GDR . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-368-4 , page 216/217.

Web links

• Frank Schulze in the database of weltfussball.de
• Frank Schulze in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Frank Schulze in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Frank Schulze in the database of the German Football Association