Gerd Seifert (soccer player)

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Seifert (center) 1988

Gerd Seifert (born July 29, 1962 in Görlitz ) is a former soccer player from Saxony . From 1980 to 1991 he played for various teams in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of the GDR Football Association . Seifert is a three-time GDR junior national player.

career

Via Niesky and Görlitz to Dynamo Dresden

At the age of 12 Seifert was accepted into the children's team of the Dynamo Niesky sports club. In 1975 he moved to Dynamo Görlitz and a year later to Dynamo Dresden . At the same time he became a student of the children's and youth sports school . As a junior player he was active for Dynamo Dresden in the junior league. There he was discovered for the GDR junior national team, with which he played three junior internationals in 1980. For the 1980/81 season he was nominated for the Dynamo team in the GDR junior league, for which he played for three years. 1982/83 he was already used in the 1st team, for which he completed five games in the GDR league this season. He played his first league game on October 16, 1982. In the match on the 8th match day between Dynamo Dresden and forward Frankfurt / O. (1: 3) he was substituted on in the 46th minute. When the junior league was dissolved in 1983, he came into the squad of Dynamo Dresden II. With this team he played in the third-class district league in 1983/84 , was top scorer with 28 goals and thus had a significant share in the promotion to the GDR league . He also played another five league games in this season, representing the injured Torsten Gütschow . With the recommendation of ten league appearances with a total of four goals, the 1.84 m tall Seifert was officially included in Dynamo Dresden's league line-up for the 1984/85 season. However, he was no longer used in the league and instead played on in the 2nd team, for which he again scored the most goals with 20 hits.

GDR-Oberliga in Riesa, Karl-Marx-Stadt and Erfurt

In the summer of 1985 Seifert was delegated to Dynamo Dresden and played for the top division Stahl Riesa from 1985/86 . Seifert played for the Stahlwerker for two seasons and was able to establish himself as a regular player in the position of the center forward. Of the 52 league games during this period, he played 49 games in which he scored nine goals. At the beginning of the 1987/88 season, Seifert was taken over by the upper division club FC Karl-Marx-Stadt . He also played there for two years, but he did not manage to assert himself there and did not get beyond the status of a substitute player. In the two seasons he was only called up 27 times, but was only eight times in the starting eleven. Seifert spent his last two GDR league seasons from 1989 to 1991 at FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt . In 1989/90 he was called up 13 times as a left winger and scored four goals. In 1990/91 he was only used in seven point games between the 1st and 15th matchday without scoring a goal. So he only had a partial share in qualifying for the 2nd Bundesliga. With the end of the GDR league, Seifert had a record of 106 league games with 18 goals.

Amateur in Bischofswerda and Dresden

Seifert was not taken over by the Erfurt club for the 2nd Bundesliga, he switched to the third-rate amateur top division club Bischofswerdaer FV 08 for the 1991/92 season . He completed his last season in the performance area in 1992/93 for the newly promoted amateur league, the Dresdner SC . As a recreational footballer, player coach and coach, he was active from 1993 to 2010 at Dresden SG Kesselsdorf. In 2009 he became the operator of a restaurant in Dresden-Wachwitz .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Description in GDR football when a player was removed from a team that was funded by sport policy and transferred to a team that was not worthy of funding.

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personal data
SURNAME Seifert, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz