Ingo Less

Ingo Less (born August 6, 1957 in Bahrendorf ) was a football player in the GDR Oberliga and played there for 1. FC Magdeburg and 1. FC Union Berlin . After finishing his active career, he worked as a football coach.

Soccer career

1. FC Magdeburg

At the age of ten, Less began to play organized football in the 1. FC Magdeburg school team. As a junior player of the FCM, he played 16 international matches with the GDR junior national team between 1975 and 1976. Relatively late compared to other junior national players, Less came to his first appearance in the GDR Oberliga. On the 23rd match day of the 1976/77 season, April 30th, he was substituted on in the encounter 1. FCM - Forward Frankfurt (2-0) in the 68th minute for right-wing defender Klaus Decker . Further premier league appearances then prevented a protracted injury.

1. FC Union

Although Less moved to the first division club 1. FC Union Berlin at the beginning of the 1978/79 season, he had to wait there again due to an injury until the end of the 1979/80 season before he played on matchday 25, May 3, 1980, in the 1 FC Union - BFC Dynamo (0: 6) came to his first league game for Berlin. At the end of the season Union had to relegate from the league, so that Less then had to play in the second-rate GDR league . Only two years later succeeded in returning to the league. In these two seasons, the 1.79 m tall player completed 29 of the 52 Unioner point and promotion games. In the following two seasons from 1982 to 1984 he played 36 of 52 point games and became the regular Libero of Berlin. At the beginning of 1984, Less was elected team captain and kept this function until 1986. After the 1983/84 season, Union rose again to the GDR league, with 33 of 34 point games, Less was significantly involved in the immediate resurgence. Also in the following two league years he was in 44 league games Union Stammlibero. On May 31, 1986, he was in the final of the GDR soccer cup , but lost with his team to 1. FC Lok Leipzig with a clear 1: 5.

In the league season 1987/88, Less played all league games up to the 6th matchday, after which he was dismissed after a total of 173 competitive games at 1. FC Union Berlin and had to switch to the third-class district league team Stahl Hennigsdorf . With his new team, he immediately became district champion and thus helped her advance to the GDR league. At the end of the season, Less said goodbye to active football.

coach

In 1984, less had already obtained the diploma as a sports teacher, and so it was possible for him to continue working as an assistant trainer at Stahl Hennigsdorf. In the 1992/93 season he was the coach in charge of the Berlin amateur top division team Marathon 02 . In July 1992, Less was allowed to return to 1. FC Union Berlin, where he initially became a junior coach. In September 1997 he was promoted to assistant coach of the 1st team and at the beginning of 1998 replaced his superior Frank Vogel as a full-time coach. Union finished the 1997/98 season in a disappointing 6th place, and when four of nine league games were lost in the summer of 1998, Less was given a leave of absence from the club on September 30, 1998 after just nine months. He then worked as a DFB base trainer , was assistant trainer of the U-19 national team in 2006 and has been looking after various Berlin junior teams for years.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 520.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pp. 297, 333.

Web links

• Ingo Less in the database of the German Football Association
• Ingo Less on immerunioner.de