Jens Pahlke

Jens Pahlke
Jens Pahlke in a steel dress (1988)
Personnel
birthday	May 26, 1963
place of birth	GDR
size	182 cm
position	Defender
Juniors
Years	station
0000-1981	1. FC Magdeburg
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1981-1984	1. FC Magdeburg	1 (0)
1984-1989	BSG Stahl Brandenburg	123 (6)
0000-1990	FSV Salmrohr
1990–0000	FC Emmen
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1980-1981	GDR U-18	11 (4)
1986-1987	DDR Olympia	16 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Jens Pahlke (born May 26, 1963 ) is a former German soccer player. For 1. FC Magdeburg and BSG Stahl Brandenburg he played in the Oberliga , the top division of GDR football .

Athletic career

Pahlke's football career began hopefully. He belonged to that year of the GDR U-18 national team that was reorganized after the disappointing UEFA youth tournament in front of a home crowd in the spring of 1980 with a view to the first official U-18 European Championship in 1981 . In the youth competitions of friendship , the GDR team finished second, but failed on the way to the European Championship finals against the Polish juniors.

In 1981 his home club , 1. FC Magdeburg, took him over as a defender in the squad for the junior league . In the same year he had already made his debut in a game in the men's league. On April 25, 1981 he was called up in the match between FCM and Sachsenring Zwickau (3-2) as a left defender, but was substituted after 59 minutes. Although Pahlke stayed with FCM until 1984 and later played in the Olympic selection, his achievements at that time did not enable him to be appointed to the top division and he was no longer used in the first team.

At the start of the 1984/85 season , Pahlke moved together with his FCM club mate Silvio Demuth to the league promoted steel Brandenburg. There he was a regular player in the matches in the East German House of Lords from the start and played 19 of the 26 first division games by the end of the season. Until 1989, the 1.82 meter tall defender was part of the Brandenburg team and only missed a few point games. In 1986, Stahl Brandenburg was able to qualify for the 1986/87 UEFA Cup games after finishing fifth in the major league . Stahl survived the 1st round and Pahlke was used in all four games until the end in the 2nd round .

He came to two other international assignments in the GDR Olympic team , for which he played two qualifying games in 1986 and 1987. However, the GDR could not qualify for the Olympic football tournament in Seoul . In total, Pahlke appeared 16 times for the East German Olympic representation.

In the autumn series of the 1989/90 season , Pahlke completed nine of the 13 point games. He played his last league game for Stahl Brandenburg on November 18, 1989, after which he used the new freedom of travel for GDR citizens made possible by the political change and initially switched to third division club FSV Salmrohr , who played in the 1989/90 in the Federal Republic of the amateur league southwest started. In the summer of 1990 he signed a contract with the Dutch second division club FC Emmen . Pahlke never returned to higher-class football.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1979–1990. ISSN  0323-8628
• Andreas Baingo , Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pages 300, 333 and 349.
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , page 447.
• Hanns Leske : The GDR league players. A lexicon . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-392-9 , pages 367/368.

Web links

• Jens Pahlke in the database of weltfussball.de
• Jens Pahlke in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Jens Pahlke in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Jens Pahlke in the database of the German Football Association
• Jens Pahlke at stahl-brandenburg.npage.de