Horst Rau

Coach Horst Rau 1986

Horst Rau (born January 9, 1949 in Dresden ) was a football player in the highest GDR football class, the GDR Oberliga . There he played for SG Dynamo Dresden , with which he was twice champion and once cup winner. He then worked as a soccer coach.

Soccer career

player

Rau came to Dynamo Dresden from Lok Dresden in 1968 as a 19-year-old striker and trained as a decorative painter. Here he first played in the 2nd team and was not involved in the promotion battle of the first who had just been relegated from the league. Dynamo managed to get promoted again, and on the 4th day of the 1969/70 season Rau was used in the major league. On September 6, 1969, he was substituted in for midfielder Meinhard Hemp in the match between BFC Dynamo and Dynamo Dresden (3-1) in the 75th minute. In his first league season, Rau completed 17 of 26 played point games and was mainly used in attack. In the 1970/71 season, Rau only played in the second half of the season in the first team, now in midfield. With only 13 game appearances, it was still a successful season for Rau, because Dynamo Dresden ended the season with a double championship and cup victory. Rau was directly involved in winning the FDGB Cup , because he was the left midfielder on June 2, 1971 in the team that won 2-1 over the BFC Dynamo. As a master player and cup winner, Rau also played two international matches with the GDR youth national team in October 1971. The league season 1971/72 Rau could not fully play through again, now playing mainly in attack, he only got 16 point games. In the next season he was taken back to midfield and this time played all 26 league point games. Rau ended his senior league career at the age of 25. In the first half of the 1973/74 season he played nine league games, his last first division was the game Dynamo Dresden against Wismut Aue (2-2) on February 2, 1974 with a five-minute short appearance at the end of the game. Within six years Rau had played in 82 league games and scored eleven goals. Of the 14 European Cup games played during his time in the Oberliga, he played eleven games (1 goal). Then Rau played for a few years with FSV Lokomotive Dresden .

Trainer

After the end of his career as an active soccer player, Rau began to work as a coach. First he worked for the lower-class teams of Motor Cossebaude and Stahl Freital . At the beginning of the 1982/83 season he took over the coaching position at the GDR division progress Bischofswerda , with whom he rose to the top division in 1986. However, as progress immediately declined, Rau was released in the summer of 1987. He then went to the district league team progress Neustadt , with whom he was district champion three times, but just as often failed in the promotion games to the GDR league. After the introduction of the DFB game operations in East Germany, Rau returned in 1990 for one season to Bischofswerda, to what is now the Bischofswerdaer FV . After that he only worked for lower-class clubs: Riesaer SV , Dresdner SC , FC Stahl Riesa 98 , Radebeuler BC 08 , FSV Budissa Bautzen and SV Wesenitztal. In July 2009 Rau took over the training of the seventh-class district division club Meißner SV 08 . From July 2011 he worked as a youth coach and junior coordinator at Radebeuler BC 08 before moving to Niesky in July 2012 . He took over the first team of FV Eintracht Niesky , which had been promoted to the District League East, and ended the season with it as runner-up behind local rivals SV See 90 . After a bad start to the 2013/14 season, Rau resigned from the coaching office in mid-October 2013, after the team had not been able to get past a 2-2 draw at bottom Hoyerswerdaer SV 1919 .

literature

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

Footnotes

1. ↑ Dress warmly in Niesky! Dresdner SC , November 1, 2012, accessed January 8, 2017 . 
2. ↑ For whom the hour strikes ... NFV Gelb-Weiß Görlitz 09 , October 24, 2013, accessed on January 8, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Holger Zimpel: An exciting weekend derby is now on in Niesky. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . November 29, 2013, accessed January 8, 2017 . 

Web links

• Horst Rau's coaching stations on Transfermarkt.de