Klaus-Peter Stein

Klaus-Peter Stein
Personnel
birthday	November 11, 1946
place of birth	Wismar ,  Germany
date of death	4th May 2013
Place of death	Wismar ,  Germany
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
until 1965	TSG Wismar
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
until 1965	TSG Wismar
1965-1970	Hansa Rostock II
1965-1970	Hansa Rostock	45 0(4)
1971-1972	Forward Stralsund
1973-1984	TSG Wismar	211 (86)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1963-1965	GDR juniors	9 0(?)
1 Only league games are given.

Klaus-Peter Stein (born November 11, 1946 in Wismar ; † May 4, 2013 ) was a German football player .

Soccer career

Until he was 18, Stein played for TSG Wismar , for whom he scored two goals in his first league game in the men's team at the age of 16. In his first of nine international junior matches, he scored twice against Romania (4-1) in Greifswald in October 1963 . He celebrated his greatest success together with his Wismar teammate Peter Sykora in 1965 at the UEFA youth tournament in Germany. England were defeated 3-2 in the final. Stein played all of his junior international matches as a TSG Wismar player.

For the 1965/66 season, TSG Stein delegated to the regional soccer performance center, the league club Hansa Rostock . For the first time, Stein came on August 27, 1966 against the BFC Dynamo in the GDR league . Overall, he came in the 1966/67 season in six league matches as a center forward or on the right attacking side. The other games he played in the third-rate district league with the 2nd team, which he also helped to promote to the GDR league. In the same season, the Rostock team reached the FDGB Cup final against Motor Zwickau , which took place without a stone. On the way there, however, he had contributed a game with a goal. The 1967/68 season began stone again in the 2nd team. After he had only played one league game up to November 1967, Hansa coach Gerhard Gläser zu Stein commented on November 8, 1967 in the sports newspaper “Deutsches Sportecho” under the heading “Talents in the dark?”:

“Together with Kurt Zapf and Lothar Wiesner, we really didn’t miss out on individual work with Klaus-Peter Stein. He's undoubtedly a talent, but talent alone is not enough. He lacks the energy to seriously work on himself. He was given many opportunities to prove himself, including many medical advice on how to lose excess weight. It didn't work. "

It was not until March 1968 that Stein was used almost regularly in the first team's attack because striker Wolfgang Wruck had suffered a broken leg. Although again reported for the first team for the season 1968/69, he was only placed there in four point games. In the 2nd team he was a regular player with 23 out of 30 possible GDR league games. With 13 goals he was the reserve's most successful goalscorer. When Horst Saß became head coach at Hansa Rostock for the 1969/70 season , Stein got better. From the 7th matchday on, he played all but one game in all of Rostock's league games and also played in all four trade fair cup games. The success did not last long, in the first half of the season 1970/71 Stein was used three times in the 1st and 2nd team.

At the beginning of 1971, Stein was drafted into military service and moved to the Vorwärts Stralsund army sports community , which played in the GDR league. There he immediately had a regular place in the attacking formation and with his eleven point games was a guarantee for the Stralsund's ascent into the GDR top division. Of the 26 league point games in the 1971/72 season, 23 played, but even with his three goals scored, he could not prevent his team from being relegated again after a year. So Stein spent another year in the second class.

In the summer of 1973, the graduate engineer returned to his homeland in Mecklenburg and rejoined TSG Wismar. There he played his first league game on September 16, 1973 in the GDR league encounter against Dynamo Schwerin. From 1973 until the end of his active career in 1984, Stein completed 211 games for Wismar in the GDR league and was at that time the most successful goalscorer of his team with 86 goals.

In 2013, Stein succumbed to cancer.

successes

• Winner of the 1965 UEFA tournament in Germany (forerunner of the European Junior Championship)
• FDGB youth cup winners: 1962, 1963 (TSG Wismar)
• Vice-Champion GDR Oberliga: 1968 (Hansa Rostock)

Private

In 1968 Klaus-Peter Stein married the former handball national player Inge Stein (née Jeske). They had two children together. Daughter Andrea Bölk won the gold medal at the 1993 Handball World Cup . Granddaughter Emily Bölk also plays handball in the national team.

Remarks

In statistics, Klaus-Peter Stein is often listed as Klaus- Dieter Stein.

Web links

• All games for the 1st team of TSG Wismar

Individual evidence

1. ↑ It can be assumed that he actually played 212 games; Unfortunately, there is no list for the game on March 31, 1974 between Stralsund and Wismar: cf. ralman.de
2. ↑ Ostsee-Zeitung, November 24, 2017