Klaus Gahr

Klaus Gahr (born July 26, 1955 ) is a former German soccer player who completed the last two international matches in the history of the German amateur soccer team in October and November 1979 .

career

The offensive player Klaus Gahr came from MTV Gifhorn's own junior division of the Black-Yellows to the 1st team in Allerstadt . When the young footballer switched to senior football, the MTV competed in the Lower Saxony Football Association in the Association League East. When Wolf-Rüdiger Krause took over the position of player -coach in the 1976/77 season , the club from the tranquil Heidestadt celebrated with 53: 7 points the championship in the association league and thus promotion to the Lower Saxony state league. In 1978 Gahr and colleagues won the Lower Saxony Cup and, together with SV Meppen, celebrated promotion to the amateur Oberliga Nord in the 1978/79 season . In the promotion round, the attacker had played all six games against SV Meppen, ASV Bergedorf 85 and NTSV Strand 08 and scored six goals. With the promoted attacker Gahr completed all 34 round games in the 1979/80 season and scored 15 goals. Outstanding were his five goals on October 7, 1979 in a 7-2 home win against the amateurs of Werder Bremen. But his performance in the selection of Lower Saxony in the regional cup on September 11, 1979 in the 1-0 win against Bremen had convinced. He was appointed to the German amateur football team by the then responsible DFB trainer Erich Ribbeck .

The player from Gifhorn made his debut on October 31, 1979 at the friendly international game in Osnabrück in the stadium on Bremer Brücke against the B-Team of the Soviet Union in the amateur national team. In the 1: 3 defeat, he scored the honorary goal of the German amateur selection. He formed the attack together with Jürgen Halbe and Ralf Obermüller . In the game report of the kicker sports magazine, he was described as "the discovery" of the game. "I am fully satisfied with the performance," said DFB coach Ribbeck afterwards. The last Olympic qualifier against Norway took place in Baunatal on November 14th. With teammates Valentin Herr , Roland Dickgießer , Karl Richter , Dieter Kohnle , Ralf Obermüller and Arno Wolf , the storm leader from Gifhorn could not prevent the 0-1 defeat at home. The history of the amateur national team ended with the 154th international match.

With this, the DFB ended the attempt to compete with the so-called "Olympic amateurs" from the Bundesliga and the second division against the "state amateurs" from the Eastern Bloc, who had won all Olympic gold medals since 1952 - largely with senior national teams . The conception had always been controversial and was on the verge of amateur legality. The intellectual fathers of the bold construction justified themselves with the fact that the Eastern Bloc had shown far fewer inhibitions and that other sports were not exactly picky about the interpretation of the amateur term.

For Gahr there was the regional cup competition of the 1979/80 season with the second leg against Bremen (1-0) on November 21, 1979 - when club colleague Hans-Heinrich Pahl was still in action - as well as the two competition games against the selection of Hesse in December 1979 and January 1980. He failed in the second leg with his colleagues on penalties against the Hessian hosts in Haiger. In the 1980/81 season he represented the colors of the NFV in the games against Hamburg, Lower Rhine and Westphalia. The two appearances in the DFB Cup on August 6, 1978 against FK Pirmasens (0: 3) and on August 25, 1979 in the local sports center Bleiche-Knickwall in front of 3200 spectators against Bundesliga club Bayer 04 Leverkusen were sporting highlights. In the 1: 4 defeat against Leverkusen, Gahr scored the consolation goal for MTV Gifhorn against goalkeeper Fred-Werner Bockholt . In their fourth year in the amateur league, 1982/83 , Gahr and colleagues finished fourth behind champions FC St. Pauli, Werder Bremen Amateurs and Holstein Kiel, making them the most successful Oberligaelf from Lower Saxony.

From 1979 to 1984 Klaus Gahr played 149 league games and scored 40 goals for MTV Gifhorn in the amateur upper league north.

literature

• German Sports Club for Football Statistics (DSFS): North Chronicle. Amateur Oberliga Nord 1979–1984. Part 3. Mettmann 2005.
• Karl-Heinz Heimann, Karl-Heinz Jens: Kicker-Almanach 1989. Copress-Verlag. Munich 1988. ISBN 3-7679-0245-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kicker Almanac 1989 . P. 126.
2. ↑ Foosball sports magazine . No. 90. November 5, 1979. p. 66.
3. ↑ Kicker Almanac 1989 . P. 126.
4. ↑ Kicker sport magazine. No. 78, September 25, 1978, p. 16.