National football team of the GDR (U-15 juniors)

GDR

Association	German Football Association
confederacy	UEFA
FIFA code	GDR
(As of communications came into effect on 20th November 1990 the DFB in. )

The GDR U-15 national soccer team was a selection team made up of soccer players from the GDR . As a younger selection, she belonged to the German Football Association and represented it internationally at the U-15 level . This happened in friendly matches and tournaments against the selection teams of other national associations.

history

During the existence of the GDR, today's U-17 World Championships and U-17 European Championships were held at U-16 level. The DFV represented the so-called older youth selection at these tournaments .

The cadres of the two youth teams were recruited from the most talented players of the football clubs in GDR football who, after screening processes, usually made it to a children's and youth sports school at the age of 13 or 14 . The best 15- and 16-year-old football player in the country were in the Youth League - to 1983 exclusively from the football clubs and Dynamo Dresden reserved for later in two seasons and company sports teams , especially Oberliga- and league Communities , including - active.

To the coaches of the U-15 team of the GDR counted in the 1980s , among other Eberhard Köditz , Dieter Scheitler , Wilfried Gröbner and Lothar Priebe.

The last re-formation of this team in the autumn of 1989, born in 1974 and 1975, began with two successes against footballers of the same age from the Czechoslovak Republic . With André Gumprecht (FC Carl Zeiss Jena), who came to professional football after reunification, as well as Hansa players Uwe Ehlers , Björn Laars and Carsten Jancker , who scored twice in the first test and also scored the golden goal in the second match , the von Dr. Hartmut Wölk trained younger youth teams in Elster and Annaburg , near Lutherstadt Wittenberg , with 6: 1 and 1: 0.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ fuwo - The new football week . Oct. 3, 1989, page 14.