Jürgen Stoppok

Jürgen Stoppok (born October 30, 1941 ) was a soccer player in the GDR Oberliga , the highest soccer class in the GDR soccer game. There he played for 1. FC Union Berlin , with which he also won the GDR soccer cup in 1968 .

Athletic career

Stoppok was initially active in gymnastics and athletics. It was only at the age of 17 that he began his football career with the Südstern sports club in Senzig, Brandenburg, and in 1959 switched to BSG Rotation Babelsberg for a year . In 1960 he took up studies in Karl-Marx-Stadt and joined the second-rate GDR league club SC Motor Karl-Marx-Stadt . In 1962 the Karl-Marx-Städter rose to the top division, but Stoppok was never used here.

In 1964, at the age of 22, he ended his engagement in Saxony and joined TSC Berlin . There he was first used in the 2nd team that played in the third-class Berlin district league . From 1965 he moved up to the GDR league team, which in the summer of 1966, meanwhile converted to 1. FC Union , rose to the league. From the 1966/67 season, the only 1.66 m tall winger was part of the regular squad of Berliners and celebrated the greatest success of his football career with his team in 1968. On June 9, 1968 , the 1. FC Union was in the final of the GDR soccer cup . Stoppok was called up as a left winger and was involved in the sensational 2-1 victory over the GDR champions FC Carl Zeiss Jena .

In the following years, Stoppok lost his regular place in the Union team and was only used sporadically. After the league relegation of Berlin in 1969, Stoppok played another season in the GDR league and ended his active career at 1. FC Union in the summer of 1970, for which he had played 47 league games, among other things. Together with his teammate Ralf Quest , he switched to the Berlin district league club Lichtenberg 47 , whom he led as a player- coach in the GDR league in 1971. In 1973 he finally finished his career as a football player. He started working as an engineer in the data center in a Berlin transformer factory, and continued to work in sports at the Berlin training center and later as a youth coach at 1. FC Union Berlin.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 447.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 476.
• DFSF (Ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949–1991 (Volume 8). Berlin 2011.

Web links

• Jürgen Stoppok in the database of the German Football Association
• Jürgen Stoppok on immerunioner.de