Jürgen Pahl

Jürgen Pahl (born March 17, 1956 in Teuchern ) is a former German soccer goalkeeper . He is an eleven GDR junior and youth national player and won the UEFA Cup and the DFB Cup with Eintracht Frankfurt .

Athletic career

Pahl began his career with the company sports community (BSG) Traktor Teuchern . As a junior national player in 1973, he was delegated to the region’s football focus, the Halleschen FC Chemie (HFC) . After appearances in the junior team of the HFC and its second team, the 17-year-old Pahl was on November 23, 1974 in the encounter Vorwärts Frankfurt / O. - HFC for the first time in the goal of the Halle GDR Oberliga team . In the period that followed, the 1.85 m tall Pahl remained in the shadow of the goalkeeper Helmut Brade and was only used sporadically in the top division team.

After Pahl had played four junior internationals by 1974, he came in May 1975 to his first international appearance in the GDR youth national team. His seventh junior international match, the European Championship match between Turkey and GDR on November 16, 1976, he used together with his Halle teammate Norbert Nachtweih to flee to the Federal Republic. By then he had completed 19 point games in the GDR Oberliga. Both joined the Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt . After the then mandatory 16-month ban imposed by FIFA on refugee players from the Eastern Bloc, Pahl played his first Bundesliga game on January 13, 1979 in the Eintracht Frankfurt - Schalke 04 match (3-1). He stayed under contract with Eintracht until 1987 and was used in 152 Bundesliga games during this time. In 1980 he won the UEFA Cup with Frankfurt and in 1981 the DFB Cup . Pahl ended his footballing career at the Turkish club Rizespor , where he was active from 1987 to 1989.

Jürgen Pahl also became known through an own goal on December 4, 1982 (16th match day), in which he threw the ball himself into the goal in the third minute of the match against Werder Bremen . There are no television pictures of Pahl's misfortune. At the time, not all Bundesliga games were shown on television. With two more goals from Rudi Völler and Wolfgang Sidka , Werder won 3-0 in the end. Pahl was replaced by his coach Branko Zebec at halftime and replaced by Joachim Jueriens .

After the sports career

After the political change in 1989 , Pahl returned to his home region and founded a window construction company in Weißenfels . He gave up this again in 1995 and settled in Paraguay . There he first ran a restaurant, later a boarding house in Independencia and also trained the club Deportivo Independencia. After moving to the province of Guairá , Pahl founded a small football academy. Jürgen Pahl returned to Germany from Paraguay in summer 2010. He now lives again in Villarica / Paraguay.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 349.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 320.
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .
• DSFS: GDR Chronicle , Volume 7, 1984 / 85–1988 / 89

Web links

• Jürgen Pahl in the database of the German Football Association
• Jürgen Pahl: Ex-goalkeeper Jürgen Pahl: "I am an optimistic apocalyptic" . Contribution to the taz , which appeared shortly before the 2006 World Cup and which was printed in Spiegel on May 2, 2006; accessed on December 16, 2014.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harald Pistorius: Jürgen Pahl: The goalkeeper who threw the ball into himself . Westdeutsche Zeitung , August 6, 2009
2. ^ Volksstimme Magdeburg, edition of February 9, 2013
3. ↑ Haruka Gruber: Interview with ex-Bundesliga star Norbert Nachtweih: Nachtweih: “I wanted to be in the best league in the world” . SPOX.com, October 4, 2010.
4. ↑ mz-web.de: Jürgen Pahl ex-HFC goalkeeper now lives in Paraguay Article from April 5, 2013