Konrad way

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Konrad way
Konrad Weise World Cup 1974.jpg
in 1974
Personnel
birthday 17th August 1951
place of birth Greiz ,  GDR
size 174 cm
position Midfield / defense
Juniors
Years station
1961-1966 Progress Greiz
1966-1970 FC Carl Zeiss Jena
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1969-1985 FC Carl Zeiss Jena II 22 0(3)
1970-1986 FC Carl Zeiss Jena 310 (17)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1968-1970 GDR U-18 27 0(1)
1970-1972 DDR U-23 8 0(2)
1971-1976 DDR Olympia 22 0(1)
1970-1981 GDR 86 0(2)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1986-1998 FC Carl Zeiss Jena (Youth)
1998-2000 FSV Zwickau (assistant trainer)
2000-2002 FSV Zwickau
2003-2005 1. FC Gera 03
2011 FF USV Jena ( Sports Director )
1 Only league games are given.

Konrad Weise (born August 17, 1951 in Greiz ) is a former German football player in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of the GDR football association . He played there for FC Carl Zeiss Jena , with whom he won three cups. Weise is an 86-time national player and participated with the senior national team in the 1974 World Cup in Germany. With the Olympic team , he won at the 1976 Summer Olympics , the gold medal . Later he was active as a football coach .

Player career

BSG and club stations

Weise joined the company sports community (BSG) progress in his native Greiz in 1961 and played there in the junior teams until 1966. At the age of 15 he was delegated to the football focus of the region, the FC Carl Zeiss Jena. There, Weise first played in the youth and junior team. He was trained as a toolmaker at the sponsoring company of FC Carl Zeiss.

Shortly after his 19th birthday, he was used on September 12, 1970 for the first time in a league game . In the encounter on the 4th match day of the 1970/71 season , in the 3-1 win at home against 1. FC Magdeburg , he was substituted on for midfielder Rainer Schlutter in the 59th minute . If he was only used as a substitute in the first half of the season, in the second half of the season he made 13 full-time appearances for a regular place in the league team. By the end of the 1971/72 season, the 1.74 m tall wise man shuttled between midfield and defense, and at the beginning of the 1972/73 season he had found his regular place as a stopper . He held this position until 1984. Then he took over, now 33 years old, the libero position , which he retained until the end of his senior league career. In the 1985/86 season , Weise played for the last time in the league team of FC Carl Zeiss Jena. He played again twelve point games, his last on April 19, 1986, in the 1: 2 defeat in the home game against 1. FC Magdeburg.

His most successful games with FC Carl Zeiss included the FDGB Cup finals in 1972, 1974 and 1980, in which he was successful with the team. In the upper league, way was runner-up five times. In the 16 years of his membership in the first team of FC Carl Zeiss Jena, Weise played 420 competitive games: DDR-Oberliga 310 (17 goals), 51 national (seven goals) and 59 European cup games in the European Cup and the IFC (one goal). From 1975 to 1986, Weise was the team captain of the Jena league team.

National team

At the youth competitions of friendship he took 3rd place in Hungary in August 1968 with the GDR junior selection. At the 1969 UEFA junior tournament, the unofficial European championship of this age group, he was second after a 1-1 draw against Bulgaria after drawing lots and in 1970 - also after drawing lots - after a 1-1 draw against Scotland's unofficial junior European champions. In this tournament, Weise was the captain of the East German team. A total of way completed 27 junior international games by 1970, in which he was mainly used in defense . After the UEFA tournament in 1970 he was seamlessly accepted into the youth national team, for the way - who actually belonged to the A-team from mid-1971 - also played eight international matches as a defender until March 1972.

Even before his first appearance in the GDR league, way played his first international match on July 27, 1970. In the 5-0 victory over Iraq's selection in Jena , he was substituted on for midfielder Harald Irmscher in the 65th minute and scored the goal in the 88th minute. It took almost a year, but even before his 20th birthday, Weise won a regular place in the senior national team. He initially played in midfield, later as a pre-stopper analogous to his league games. During the 1974 World Cup , Weise played all six tournament games of the GDR selection team, including the legendary game against the selection of the Federal Republic of Germany , which was won 1-0 in Hamburg . In the decisive European Championship qualifier on November 21, 1979 in Leipzig , in the 2: 3 defeat by the Netherlands , he was in the 40th minute of the game - it was after goals from Rüdiger Schnuphase (17th) and Joachim Streich (34th) .) at this point still 2-0 for the GDR selection - together with his opponent Tscheu La Ling, relegated to the field. With his last appearance on October 10, 1981, in the 2: 3 defeat against Poland , Weise played his 86th A international match, with the number of internationals he occupies fourth place on the list of GDR national players.

Weise celebrated his greatest international successes with the Olympic team , with which he played 22 official international games from 1971 to 1976. In 1972 he won the bronze medal with this representation and on July 31, 1976 - after the 3-1 victory over Poland in the final in Montreal - the gold medal at the Summer Olympics, for which he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.

Coaching career

In 1983, even during his time as a football player, Weise acquired a physical education teacher diploma. He had the prerequisites to be able to work as a trainer in the future. Immediately after the end of his playing career, FC Carl Zeiss Jena Weise took over as coach for the youth division. Under his guidance, talents like the later national players Bernd Schneider , Jörg Böhme and Robert Enke grew up. Weise later became assistant coach of the FC Carl Zeiss Jena league team. In 1998, Weise left Jena and became assistant coach at the third division FSV Zwickau under Hans-Jürgen Dörner . For the 1999/2000 season he took over the post of head coach, but unfortunately he could not avert the team's relegation to the Oberliga Nordost 2000/01 . After three years, his position as head coach ended. He then coached the fifth-class 1. FC Gera 03 until 2005 . On December 29, 2010, Weise became the sports director of the women's soccer club FF USV Jena in the Bundesliga .

successes

Awards

  • In 1989, according to a survey by the GDR soccer newspaper Neue Fußballwoche , Weise was voted into the “Dream Team 40 Years of the Oberliga”.

Others

Konrad Weise is married and has a son born in 1982. He runs the Konrad Weise sports retailer in Greiz. In addition to sports, he mentioned reading and cinema as hobbies.

literature

Web links

Commons : Konrad Weise  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chronicle of German Football. The national team games from 1908 to the present day. Chronik Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 2005, ISBN 3-577-16409-3 , page 215
  2. ↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In: New Germany . September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (online at ZEFYS - newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , free registration required).
  3. ^ GDR national player Konrad Weise becomes sporting director at FF USV Jena
personal data
SURNAME Wise, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Greiz