Klaus Pfeufer

Klaus Pfeufer (born April 16, 1937 ) is a former German soccer player. In the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football , he played for several Leipzig football clubs from 1957 to 1968 . He is a multiple young international player.

Athletic career

Until 1956, Klaus Pfeufer played at SG Zwenkau , most recently in the fourth class district league . For the 1957 season he moved to the league club SC Rotation Leipzig . After initial attempts as a striker, coach Hans Studener put him on as a left defender before Matchday 4, and he made a total of 22 league games by the end of the season. In this season Pfeufer was also appointed to the squad of the GDR youth national team, for which he played four international matches until 1958. There, too, like in Leipzig, he was used as a left-back. Apart from the 1959 season, where he was injured for nine weeks, Pfeufer was a regular at SC Rotation until 1963. From 1958 to 1962 he was also included in the Leipzig city selection , with which he completed 13 games in the European Exhibition Cities Cup .

In 1963, the Leipzig league football was restructured. The football sections of the two sports clubs SC Rotation and SC Lokomotive Leipzig were dissolved and divided between the newly formed football sections of SC Leipzig and BSG Chemie Leipzig . The supposedly best players were assigned to SC Leipzig, including Klaus Pfeufer. Even under his new coach Rudolf Krause , Pfeufer remained left defender, and he fell out again for several weeks in his first season at SC Leipzig 1963/64, so that he was only able to play 17 games of the 26 league games. The season ended disappointingly for SC Leipzig, as it only finished third behind the weaker BSG Chemie Leipzig, which surprisingly became champions. Even the move into the final of the GDR soccer cup did not bring the hoped-for success, because the SC Leipzig lost with Pfeufer as a left-back 2: 3 against SC Aufbau Magdeburg . In the seasons 1964/65 to 1966/67 Pfeufer was only used sporadically in the league, of the 78 point games played during this time, he played only 15 games. In the fall of 1965, however, he came to two more missions in the trade fair cup, in which the SC Leipzig now participated.

From 1966 on, Pfeufer played for the newly formed 1. FC Lokomotive, which arose from the soccer section that was spun off from SC Leipzig. Although he had only played five league games in 1966/67, he also played two trade fair cup games for 1. FC Lok this season, where he played in the two quarter-finals against FC Kilmarnock (1-0, 0-2). In his last league season 1967/68 Pfeuer played again eleven point games between the 6th and 21st matchday and was also called up in the two second-round trade fair cup games against Vojvodina Novi Sad (0-0, 0-2). In the summer of 1968, Klaus Pfeufer ended his career as a top division player. In his eleven first division seasons he had made 198 appearances, as a defender he had only scored one goal. He had played 19 times in the trade fair cup.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1957–1968. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 357.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 330.

Web links

• Klaus Pfeufer in the database of the German Football Association