Hans-Peter Stark (soccer player)

Hans-Peter Stark (born September 16, 1954 ) is a former German soccer player who, as an active member of Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin, played 145 Bundesliga games between 1984 and 1989, including 18 Bundesliga games in 1986/87 .

career

Amateur, until 1984

Hans-Peter Stark grew up sporty at SC Union 06 Berlin . He experienced the first high points in his young career in 1975/76 when Union moved into the promotion round to the 2nd Bundesliga North and played in the first main round in the 1976/77 DFB Cup against VfL Osnabrück. In the last year of the amateur soccer team , 1979, he was appointed to the newly formed squad of the amateur national team by the then DFB coach Erich Ribbeck . The DFB had broken away from the "Olympic amateurs" model and started the qualifying games for the 1980 Olympics for the first time since 1972 with players from the real amateur field. Stark played the three Olympic qualifying games in September / October 1979 against Finland and Norway. The defensive midfielder and his teammates Valentin Herr , Roland Dickgießer and Arno Wolf celebrated a 2-0 victory in their debut match against Finland on September 13th in Oberhausen . The game on September 26th in Trondheim against Norway lost the German selection with 2-0 goals and on October 10th they parted goalless 0-0 in the second leg in Helsinki against Finland. In the last two international matches in the history of the amateur national team on October 31 and November 14, 1979, the man from Union 06 was no longer used.

He came to Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin in 1983 via Hertha Zehlendorf and immediately celebrated the championship in AOL Berlin in 1983/84 under coach Stefan Sprey and with the other newcomers Holger Gehrke , Michael Schmidt , Norbert Bebensee , Jürgen Haller and Leo Bunk and thus the entry into the promotion round to the 2nd Bundesliga . Stark belonged to the circle of regular players of the Mariendorfer, who were able to prevail against the competitors FC St. Pauli , FC Gütersloh , 1. FC Bocholt and SV Lurup and achieved promotion to the 2. Bundesliga. Financially, the “sports director” Konrad Kropatschek, a German-Romanian living in Franconia , had created the prerequisites for this with his advertising agency “Hertfelder”.

Bundesliga. 1984 to 1989

Under coach Bernd Hoss - he had replaced Stefan Sprey in September 1984 - the newcomer ended up in seventh place, and was seven positions better than local rivals Hertha BSC , who had to console themselves with the two derbies they had won. In his first year in the 2nd Bundesliga, Stark played 32 games alongside his teammates Norbert Bebensee, Leo Bunk, Egon Flad, Jörg Gaedke, Jürgen Haller and Reinhard Mager.

The second game year in the 2. Bundesliga, 1985/86, began for Blau-Weiß 90 mixed. With 21:17 points, Stark and colleagues took sixth place in the table after 19 match days in the preliminary round. The second division was led by Fortuna Cologne and FC Homburg with 26:12 points each. The two other Berlin representatives Hertha BSC and Tennis Borussia were 15th and 19th respectively. The top game against FC Homburg was lost in the final of the second half of the season on matchday 34 in front of 60,000 spectators, but Fortuna Köln was beaten 3-1 on matchday 36, creating four points behind fourth place in the table. President Hans Löring's team gave up three more points in the following two catch-up games against SC Freiburg and Union Solingen, so that after the 1-1 draw on May 4, 1986 at Hessen Kassel, blue-white could no longer be displaced from second place in the table and the promotion to the Bundesliga was certain. Stark completed 32 games in the promotion round. The goal scorers from duty at Blau-Weiß were Leo Bunk with 26 and Bodo Mattern with 15 goals. Hertha and Tennis Borussia were relegated to the amateur camp. In addition to the sport, this round was overshadowed by the discovery of the Hertfelder Agency's financial "pyramid scheme". In mid-1985, the shaky Kropatschek / Hertfelder system collapsed. Only after depositing a guarantee of 1.15 million marks, an additional bank loan of half a million marks and transferring the team to the DFB, the Berliners received the license for the 1985/86 season. In December 1985, the club finally quit the Hertfelder agency and instead hired Hans Maringer, a plumbing wholesaler from Nuremberg, who acted as manager and vice-president and had acquired the rights to the players.

In the Bundesliga round 1986/87 , the promoted team started on August 9, 1986 with a home game against 1. FC Kaiserslautern . In front of 36,722 spectators, the “Red Devils” prevailed with 4-1 goals, Stark was substituted on for Bodo Mattern in the 62nd minute . On the third day of play, he celebrated his first double point win , playing in midfield with a 3-2 win over Borussia Mönchengladbach . Karlheinz Riedle , newcomer from Augsburg, was substituted on in the 73rd minute when the score was 1: 2 goals and with two goals he turned the game around for the Mariendorfer. At the end of the round, however, Blue-White had been relegated with 18:50 points. Stark was used in 18 games.

After relegation, the senior stayed in the 2nd Bundesliga for two years in the team of President Manfred Kursawa and finished seventh and eighth in the table with blue and white. With the game on the 37th matchday at FC Schalke 04 , he said goodbye to licensed football in June 1989, just under three months before his 35th birthday. Stark had played again in 34 games for Berlin and had helped to leave the "old lady" Hertha BSC behind in 13th place.

literature

• Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 4: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 2. Goals, crises & a successful trio 1975–1987. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-89784-133-9 .
• Raphael Keppel, Chronicle of the 2nd Bundesliga 1974–1989, Edgar Hitzel Sports and Games Publishing House, Hürth, 1990, ISBN 3-9802172-7-2
• Hardy Greens (Ed.): Of gray mice and great masters. The book about the Bundesliga. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-89784-114-2 , pp. 17-22.