Jürgen Sparwasser

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Jürgen Sparwasser
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Jürgen Sparwasser (1974)
Personnel
birthday June 4, 1948
place of birth Halberstadt ,  SBZ
size 180 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1956-1963 BSG locomotive Halberstadt
1963-1966 SC (construction) / 1. FC Magdeburg
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1966-1979 1. FC Magdeburg 271 (111)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1964-1966 GDR U-18 19 0(7)
1966-1972 DDR U-23 7 0(3)
1968-1975 DDR Olympia 11 0(6)
1976 GDR B 2 0(1)
1969-1977 GDR 53 (15)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1. FC Magdeburg (assistant coach)
1988-1990 Eintracht Frankfurt (assistant coach)
1990-1991 SV Darmstadt 98
1994-1996 Rot-Weiß Walldorf
1 Only league games are given.

Jürgen Sparwasser (born June 4, 1948 in Halberstadt ) is a former German football player and football coach who was active in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of the GDR Football Association. There he played for 1. FC Magdeburg , with whom he was three times champion, four times GDR Cup winner and 1974 European Cup winner. Sparwasser played 53 times for the national team and scored 15 goals, including the winning goal of the GDR selection in the only game against the German national team during the 1974 World Cup . In 1988 he fled the GDR .

Active career

Sparwasser began his footballing career under his father as a coach at BSG Lok Halberstadt , which delegated him to the regional football focus SC Aufbau Magdeburg in 1963. There he first played in the junior team, in which he was discovered for the GDR junior national team . On October 7, 1964, he played his first international junior match in the encounter between the GDR and Bulgaria and scored the 1-0 winning goal. In 1965 he won the UEFA youth tournament, the unofficial European championship, with a 3-2 win over England, in which he had made it 1-0, with the youth selection. In his total of 19 international junior matches until 1969, he scored seven goals. Seamlessly followed between 1966 and 1972 seven junior international games, in which he came to three goals.

Before his 18th birthday, Sparwasser made his first appearance in the GDR league on February 26, 1966. On the 16th match day of the 1965/66 season he was used as a left half-forward at 0-0 at FC Hansa Rostock. By the end of the season, he was called up in another five league point games of Magdeburg, who now played as 1. FC Magdeburg. He scored his first league goal in the game Rot-Weiß Erfurt - FCM (2-1) on March 12, 1966. At the end of the season, Magdeburg was relegated, so that Sparwasser had to play in the second-rate GDR league in the 1966/67 season . With his 22 goals, with which the 1.80 meter tall striker became the top scorer of the northern season, he made a decisive contribution to the immediate resurgence. In the new league season 1967/68 he was again the best shooter of his team with nine hits. This was repeated in the following three years.

On June 22, 1969, Sparwasser was used for the first time in the senior national team . In the game DDR - Chile (0: 1) he was called up on the left side of the storm. Despite his constant performance in the league, Sparwasser was never a regular in the GDR team. On the other hand, he turned out to be a reliable tournament player. He played all games in both the 1972 Olympic soccer tournament and the 1974 World Cup. With the Olympic selection , for which he played eleven international games between 1968 and 1975, he won the bronze medal in 1972. At the 1974 soccer world championship he was in the 77th minute of the game in Hamburg 's Volksparkstadion as the 1-0 victory shooter in the preliminary round game GDR - Federal Republic and thus became a folk hero in the East German state among football fans loyal to the system.

Jürgen Sparwasser (left) and his teammates after winning the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1973/74

With 1. FC Magdeburg, Sparwasser had won two league championships (1972 and 1974) and two GDR Cup winners (1969 and 1973). Even before the World Cup, he had achieved the greatest success of his football career by winning the European Cup Winners' Cup on May 8, 1974 by beating AC Milan 2-0 . In the 1973/74 and 1975/76 seasons Sparwasser was again Magdeburg's top scorer, in between he won his third GDR championship title in 1975. From 1976 he formed the parade tower of the FCM with Streich and Hoffmann and won the GDR Cup for the third and fourth time in 1978 and 1979. The 1978/79 season was Sparwassers last in the league, because he had to quit competitive sport at the age of 31 due to a hip problem. He had played 271 league games with 111 goals, 27 GDR league games (22 goals), 49 national cup games (20 goals) and 40 European cup games (20 goals) for 1. FC Magdeburg. Only 15 footballers have hit the net more often in the history of the top division of GDR football .

On November 16, 1977 he had played for the last time in the national team in the World Cup qualifier Turkey against the GDR (1: 2). It was his 53rd - or, according to FIFA reading, his 49th - international match. With 15 or 14 meetings it is included in the East German international match statistics.

Further career

During his active time, Sparwasser completed an engineering degree as a mechanical engineer and in 1980 completed his training as a sports teacher. 1. FC Magdeburg hired the sports teacher as an assistant coach, and Sparwasser turned down multiple offers to take on the post of head coach, as he wanted to avoid the political involvement associated with it. Instead, he became a research assistant at the Magdeburg University of Education . Sparwasser only joined the GDR state party, the SED, in 1973, shortly before the World Cup . When his daughter applied to leave the country due to political repression, Sparwasser's professional position was also endangered. Therefore, he decided to flee to the Federal Republic. On the occasion of a game of the old men’s team of 1. FC Magdeburg in Saarbrücken , he succeeded in this project on January 10, 1988 - together with his wife, who was visiting relatives in Germany at the same time. The GDR news service ADN reported: "The presence of an old man's team from 1. FC Magdeburg in Saarbrücken used anti-sports forces to poach Jürgen Sparwasser, who betrayed his team."

In Germany, Sparwasser initially worked as a coach again, from 1988 to 1990 as an assistant coach at the Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt under Karl-Heinz Feldkamp , then until his dismissal in November 1991 in his only engagement as head coach in professional football at the second division SV Darmstadt 98 , which took 17th place in the 1990/91 season and was only not relegated because of the withdrawal of Rot-Weiss Essen's license . From December 1994 he trained the fourth-class Hessian upper division club Rot-Weiß Walldorf, who had been in the fourth division of the regional soccer league since 1994, as the successor to Timo Zahnleiter and Jochen Rebsch, but could not prevent relegation to the Hessen State League as the bottom of the table of 16 teams. For the Landesliga Süd a completely new team had to be built up, which at the end of the 1995/96 season as 16th of 17 teams ten points behind in 14th place had to accept relegation to the sixth-class regional league.

He then worked for an insurance company in the field of sports marketing. In 1997 Sparwasser became president of the Association of Contract Soccer Players (VdV). He held this office until 1999 and later worked as a player's agent.

Trivia

In 2003, a Krefeld entrepreneur bought Sparwassers jersey with the number 14, which he had worn in the game against the DFB team in 1974, and left it to the Bonn House of History , where it has been on display ever since.

successes

  • Winner of the 1965 UEFA youth tournament
  • GDR champion 1972, 1974, 1975
  • GDR cup winners 1969, 1973, 1978, 1979
  • Winner of the 1974 European Cup Winners' Cup
  • Bronze medal at the 1972 Olympic Games
  • Participation in the 1974 World Cup

literature

See also

  • Kiss me comrade! (TV film from 2006 about a journey back in time to the year of the Sparwasser gate)

Web links

Commons : Jürgen Sparwasser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Jürgen Sparwasser - Matches and Goals in Oberliga . RSSSF.com . July 10, 2006. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
  2. ↑ Marcel Haisma: Jürgen saving water - Matches in European Cups . RSSSF.com . July 31, 2008. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
  3. ^ Matthias Arnhold: East Germany - Topscorers . RSSSF.com . May 29, 2019. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
  4. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Jürgen Sparwasser - Goals in International Matches . RSSSF.com . February 12, 2015. Accessed January 13, 2020.
  5. ^ Matthias Arnhold: East Germany - Record International Players . RSSSF.com . January 10, 2020. Accessed January 13, 2020.
  6. ^ From football hero to republic refugee WDR.de, January 10, 2013.
  7. ^ Archive Rot-Weiß Walldorf Season 1994/95 , accessed on September 7, 2015
  8. ^ Archive Rot-Weiß Walldorf season 1995/96 , accessed on September 7, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Sparwasser, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Halberstadt