Jürgen Decker

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Jürgen Decker (born March 6, 1946 ) was a soccer player in the GDR upper league for SC Empor / FC Hansa Rostock and worked there as a coach for several years.

As an eight-year-old student, Decker registered with the soccer section of the Rostock BSG locomotive in 1954 . In 1959, at the age of 13, he moved to SC Empor Rostock. After he was accepted into the junior team, he drew such attention as a talented striker that he was appointed to the squad of the GDR junior national team. On March 4, 1964, he played his first international junior match (GDR - Austria 1: 1) on the side of the later national players Jürgen Croy , Harald Irmscher and Wolfgang Seguin . Two more junior internationals followed by 1965, and later Decker played five more times in the GDR youth team. At the same time he completed an apprenticeship as a lathe operator.

After Decker had become a regular player in the reserve team of SC Empor, in which he played from 1963, he had his first league assignment on April 10, 1965 in the encounter between SC Empor Rostock and ASK Vorwärts Berlin (0: 1). He was used in the center forward position as a replacement for the injured Gerd Kostmann . After playing two more times as a center forward by the end of the 1964/65 season, he blossomed into a major league regular with 16 league appearances in the following season and usually kept his position in the center of the storm. With five goals, however, his success was limited. Decker played for the club, which was later restructured into FC Hansa, until 1979, interrupted by the 18-month military service between 1973 and 1975. He made 179 league appearances and, due to the Rostock's repeated relegation to the GDR league , 32 league games . There are also 24 national and 5 international cup games. Decker scored a total of 37 competitive goals. As a football player, Decker never won a title. In 1967 he was in the final of the GDR soccer cup , but the Rostockers lost 3-0 against Motor Zwickau .

Decker's coaching career, which began in 1982 as Jürgen Heinsch's assistant at FC Hansa Rostock, was more successful . Apart from a short excursion to BSG Post Neubrandenburg in the 1987/88 season, Decker worked as an assistant coach for the Hanseatic League until 1992 and thus experienced their GDR championship and cup win in 1991 as well as the first Bundesliga year of FC Hansa. In 1993 Decker became self-employed as a coach and took over the Mecklenburg regional division Parchimer FC . With the help of his former Rostock teammates Juri Schlünz and Gernot Alms , he was promoted to the Oberliga Nordost in 1995 . In 1996 he took over the amateur team from Hansa Rostock, which he left after two years and winning the Mecklenburg State Cup in the direction of the northeast upper division club FC Schönberg . Up until his early release in 2002, he was able to win the Mecklenburg Cup four more times in four years and in 2000 was about to be promoted to the regional league . In 2003 Decker moved to the coaching bench of the northeast upper division club TSG Neustrelitz for two years . After coaching the Rostocker FC club in the 2006/07 season , Decker returned to FC Hansa in 2007 in the junior division. At the beginning of the 2009/10 season, Decker moved to the first division club 1. FC Neubrandenburg 04 and took over the training of the first men's team. In the 2010/2011 season he rose with the Neubrandenburgers. At the end of May he took over the coaching position at Torgelower SV Greif in time for the regional league relegation games against VfB Fortuna Chemnitz . After the team finished last in the table at the beginning of the winter break of the 2012/2013 season, Jürgen Decker was dismissed.

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SURNAME Decker, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1946