Herbert Kuscha

Herbert Kuscha (born October 27, 1960 ) is a former German soccer player. In 1979 and 1980 he played for 1. FC Union Berlin in the GDR Oberliga , the highest East German soccer league. Kuscha is a ten-time GDR junior national player.

Athletic career

Kuscha came in 1974 from the East Berlin company sports association (BSG) Lokomotive Schöneweide to the youth department of 1. FC Union Berlin. As a junior player, the GDR Football Association became aware of the young striker and in 1978 accepted him into the squad of the junior national team. On April 9, 1978, Kuscha played his first of ten junior internationals. In the match Romania - GDR (1: 1) he was used as a left winger and scored the goal for the GDR team. After completing school, he completed an apprenticeship as a car mechanic.

For the 1978/79 season 1. FC Union nominated the 1.80 m tall Kuscha as a striker for the junior league. Towards the end of the season, however, coach Heinz Werner already used him in the GDR league. His first league game completed Kuscha on May 19, 1979 in the encounter of the 22nd game day Union Berlin - Wismut Aue (1: 2), when he was substituted on in the 61st minute. Three more short assignments followed. 1979/80 Kuscha was officially in the squad of the league team. During this season he temporarily represented the left winger Peter Wirth , but only made nine appearances in the major league without having played for 90 minutes. After this season Union rose in the second-rate GDR league . In the 1980/81 season, Kuscha was only used in the third-class district league team Union II. In March 1981 he was expelled from the club for disciplinary misconduct and banned from the GDR Football Association for half a year. In his short career at 1. FC Union Berlin, Kuscha had only played 14 competitive games for the first team, including a cup game, and only scored one goal.

In November 1982 he was drafted into the army for 18 months and played during this time with the army sports community Vorwärts Hagenow in the Schwerin district league. In May 1984 Kuscha returned to East Berlin and joined the district league team BSG Kabelwerk Oberspree (KWO) . In 1985 he became district champion with the cable workers, but they subsequently failed in the promotion round to the GDR league. Kuscha then moved to BSG Motor Ludwigsfelde in the Potsdam district league and was again district champion with her in 1986. The Ludwigsfelder rose automatically to the GDR league, so that Kuscha could play second division football until 1987. During the 1987/88 season he left Ludwigsfelde and at the beginning of 1988 returned to BSG Kabelwerk Oberspree in the East Berlin District League. In the summer of 1988 he became district champion for the third time in his career and then played with the BSG KWO again in the GDR league until they were dissolved in 1990.

Then Kuscha toured through various Berlin clubs until the end of the 1990s, initially in the upper league for the Reinickendorfer Füchse and Marathon Berlin . From 1994 he played only in the lower class at Club Italia Berlin, FC Jugoslavija Berlin and Berliner SV 92 , where he ended his career as a soccer player in 1999.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 284.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 296.
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .

Web links

• Herbert Kuscha in the database of the German Football Association
• Herbert Kuscha at immerunioner.de