Lothar Vetterke
Lothar Vetterke (born May 6, 1932 - February 19, 1998 ) was a soccer player and national soccer player in the GDR .
When Lothar Vetterke was 13 years old, his first sports community was founded, at SG Schkeuditz he played his first football matches as a teenager. Later he moved to the then strongest Leipzig football team, the ZSG industry Leipzig, which since 1949 in the top East German league league played and later in BSG Chemie Leipzig renamed. When chemistry became East German champion in the 1950/51 season, Vetterke, at 19 years of age, was not yet on the squad, the competition for Fröhlich , Scherbaum , Rose and Eilitz was too great . At the beginning of the 1952/53 season, Vetterke moved to the lower-class Leipzig suburban sports community Motor Gohlis Nord in order to finally gain a foothold in the men's field .
At the end of 1952, the Leipzig army sports team Vorwärts recruited eight of the best players from Chemie Leipzig. In order to stay in the top league, the chemists had to find new players who were strong players as quickly as possible. They also remembered Lothar Vetterke, who could now be used as a midfielder and left winger. From 1953 Vetterke played again in Leutzsch and has now become a regular in the newly formed team.
He drew such attention to himself that national coach Fritz Gödicke used him on June 14, 1953 in the GDR national team's game against Bulgaria. He was substituted on in the second half for the left winger Ilsch . The GDR's third international match ended with a 0-0 win, a new national coach arrived, other players were tried out and Vetterke was not considered any further. Vetterke only has two appointments to the junior national team as international assignments.
In 1954 Vetterke was one of the players who joined the newly created SC Lokomotive Leipzig . Here he completed 20 point games before he retired from the league at the end of the 1954/55 season at the age of 23. In his three league years he had been used in a total of 89 point games and had scored 13 goals. He went back to the roots of his footballing career and played until 1967 at BSG Motor Schkeuditz, sometimes in the 2nd GDR league, sometimes in the district league. From 1970 he trained the team that had meanwhile become TSG MAB Schkeuditz .
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vetterke, Lothar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player and national soccer player of the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1932 |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 19, 1998 |