Gerd Kische

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Gerd Kische (born October 23, 1951 in Teterow ) is a former German soccer player. He played in the GDR major league for FC Hansa Rostock . He is 63 times GDR national player and won the gold medal with the GDR Olympic team in 1976.

Soccer career

youth

Kische grew up in his hometown Teterow in Mecklenburg with seven siblings. Both his father and his uncle were soccer players, and so Gerd Kische also started a soccer career. He first played in the children's team of the BSG unit Teterow , in 1960 he switched to the soccer performance center of the GDR district of Neubrandenburg , the BSG Turbine Neubrandenburg . Its football section was transferred two years later to the newly founded SC Neubrandenburg. In Neubrandenburg, Kische played in the usual youth teams. In 1966, the Neubrandenburg football section experienced another change to BSG Post Neubrandenburg. As a junior, he was accepted into the squad of the GDR junior national team in 1969. Between 1969 and 1970 he played 19 international matches with the junior team. On May 25, 1970 he was a midfielder in the youth team, which won the UEFA youth tournament after a 1-1 draw against the Netherlands and a drawing of lots and thus became the unofficial European youth champion.

FC Hansa Rostock

In the summer of 1970, the BSG Post Neubrandenburg delegated Kische, who had already played with the men's team in the second-rate GDR league , to the football focus of the GDR north, the upper division club FC Hansa Rostock. He was immediately nominated for the squad of the league team for the 1970/71 season. He was used from the start of the season, his first league game was on August 23, 1970, the game FC Hansa - Wismut Aue (0: 1), in which was used as a midfielder. During this season, in which the 1.77 m tall Kische played 20 league point games, he was taken back to the defense line by coach Horst Saß . From the 1971/72 season on, Kische was a regular on the right defensive side for the next few years. In addition to his footballing talent, his running speed was particularly beneficial, he ran the 100 meters in 10.7 seconds.

During his time at Hansa Rostock, he and his team had to be relegated to the GDR league three times in 1975, 1977 and 1979. During this time he was already a national player, but was able to enforce against the GDR Football Association, despite other practices, that he remained in the national team as a second division player. In the three GDR league seasons he played a total of 66 of the 90 point and promotion games and thus ensured immediate promotion.

Since Kische was spared from protracted injuries, he was able to maintain his status as a regular player until the end of his Hansa career. The 1980/81 season was Kisches last league season. After initial experiments by trainer Harry Nippert with different positions, the 30-year-old Kische again prevailed as a right defender. In the course of the season, there was turbulence in Kisches marriage, which ended in the divorce from his wife, the former athlete Barbara Wieck . The GDR Football Association took this as an opportunity to ban the uncomfortable player, who also refused to work for the GDR State Security, from the national team and then to induce FC Hansa to move Kische. Kische played his last game in the league on the last matchday of the 1980/81 season, May 30, 1981. In the match between FC Hansa and Sachsenring Zwickau (1: 3), Kische scored again as a right defender in the 90th minute a penalty the Rostock consolation goal and at the same time his last league goal . In the twelve Hansa years, Kische was used in 182 league games in which he had scored eleven goals as a defensive player. He had also been used in 32 GDR Cup games and scored three goals there.

National player

After Kische had already completed an international match with the youth national team in 1970, he was used for the first time in the senior national team on September 18, 1971 in Leipzig against Mexico (1: 1). Also in this game he acted in his standard position as a right defender. In the national team, too, he immediately gained a regular place. Despite a few failures in 1972 and 1973, Kische was part of the squad for the 1974 World Cup in West Germany and was used in all six World Cup games, including the surprising 1-0 victory of the GDR selection over the West German team . He controlled his opponent Heinz Flohe at will.

Kische achieved his greatest international success with the GDR Olympic selection . He was already part of their squad in 1971 and played two qualifying games. But because of a broken toe, he was unable to take part in the 1972 Olympic football tournament. In 1975 he was again part of the Olympic squad. He was in five of the six qualifying games and was also nominated for the 1976 finals in Canada. There he played all five games and was on July 31, 1976 in Montreal in the final against Poland. With Kische as right defender, the GDR won the Olympic gold medal after a 3-1 win against Poland. For this success he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. From 1971 to 1976, Kische played a total of twelve official international games for the Olympic selection.

Kische completed his 50th international match on November 15, 1978 in the encounter between the Netherlands and GDR (3-0). This game was memorable for him, because in the 8th minute of the game he initiated the GDR's 3-0 defeat with an own goal. It was the first own goal in the history of the GDR national team. His 63rd and last international match took place on November 19, 1980. In Halle, the GDR team and their right-back Kische won 2-0 over Hungary. According to FIFA reading , Kische has 59 international matches.

In addition to the games with the senior national team, Kische played five games with the youth national team between 1970 and 1974. With her, Kische became Vice-Junior European Champion in 1974.

Career end

After the involuntary end of his career at FC Hansa Rostock, the GDR sports newspaper Deutsches Sportecho reported in its 1981/82 special season edition that Kische had ended his competitive sports career. In fact, it was planned to delegate Kische back to his former sports club Post Neubrandenburg. However, the Neubrandenburg team refused and so Kische joined the GDR league club TSG Bau Rostock in the autumn of 1981 . There, however, he was only used irregularly in the first season because he was drafted into Stahnsdorf for quarterly military service in November of that year . In the 1981/82 and 1982/83 seasons , Kische completed 36 out of 44 possible games for Bau Rostock in the second-highest division. In the summer of 1983 it was possible to move to Post Neubrandenburg, where he played in the GDR league for another year. After a year, Kische finally said goodbye to active football in the spring of 1984.

successes

  • 1970 Junior European Champion (unofficial)
  • 1974 Vice European Champion of the youth national teams
  • 1974 Participation in the 1974 World Cup
  • 1976 Olympic gold medal in Montreal
  • 1976, 1978 and 1980 promotion to the league

After active football

After the end of his career as a football player, Kische settled back in Rostock. While he was still active, he had earned his degree in engineering economics, which enabled him to work as a department head at the Rostock housing association. He later moved to the Kombinat Tief- und Verkehrsbau as economics director. In 1990 Kische first worked for a Hamburg construction company, then for the Rostock branch of the Heidelberg cement works . In 1992 he became managing director of a construction company, with which he however went bankrupt in 2007.

When after the political change of 1989 the FC Hansa Rostock was converted into a registered club free of political influence, Kische returned to this. In February 1991 he was elected Vice President and in July 1991 President of the Association. In the following season 1991/92 Hansa rose from the Bundesliga after Kische had fallen out with coach Uwe Reinders and finally dismissed him in March 1992 without notice. In September 1993, Kische gave up the office of president, but then remained as a manager at FC Hansa until March 1995. In this role, he hired the players Matthias Breitkreutz and Stefan Beinlich in 1994 , with which he laid the foundation for Hansa's resurgence in the 1994/95 season . In May 1995 he took over the managerial position at the then regional league club 1. FC Union Berlin , but only stayed there for three months. Also only briefly, from July to October 2000, Kische was the manager of the upper league club FC Anker Wismar . In July 2009, Kische took on a consultancy role for the Rostocker FC association league team .

literature

Web links

Commons : Gerd Kische  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In: New Germany . September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (online at ZEFYS - newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , free registration required).
personal data
SURNAME Kische, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Teterow