Lutz Otto

Lutz Otto (born September 5, 1954 in Meiningen ; † June 14, 2010 ) was a soccer player in the GDR. For FC Vorwärts Frankfurt (Oder) he played 164 games in the GDR league .

Athletic career

Lutz Otto began his career as a soccer player with the GDR league club Kali Werra Tiefenort . Otto was drafted into the ASG Vorwärts Meiningen during his military service, which was relocated to Plauen in Saxony in 1974 , where Otto continued to play in the GDR league for the newly formed ASG Vorwärts Plauen .

In 1975 the then rather unknown player was delegated to the league team of FC Vorwärts Frankfurt . Otto could not immediately prevail in the army team, in the final of the FDGB Cup 1975/76 he was not used. In the following years, however, Otto was able to establish himself in the team of the former six-time GDR master. The slim 1.74 m tall attacking player achieved notoriety in the GDR upper league with his "climb over" trick, which made him popular especially in away games. Otto was in the team of the rather pale army club at times one of the most popular players in the GDR, who was also celebrated in foreign stadiums after his technical inserts. In the East Germany national football team Otto, however, was not called, but completed a game in the East German National Selection. At international club level Otto always failed prematurely with FC Vorwärts against Werder Bremen , Nottingham Forest and VfB Stuttgart . The 1977/78 season ended forward Frankfurt as relegated. Then Otto had to play in the second-rate GDR league for a year, but he managed to get promoted again with his team. Unlike 1976 Otto in 1981 was consistent with the forward-Eleven in the Cup final, but as the 1976 FCV in Berlin lost the World Youth Stadium again the 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig , this time with 1: 4. Otto played right winger, but was replaced by Lothar Enzmann in the 63rd minute. He achieved his best league placement with Frankfurt in 1983 as runner-up behind the BFC Dynamo .

At the age of almost 30, Otto took leave of the Frankfurt army team after the 1983/84 season in the rank of sub-lieutenant, for which he had played 164 league games in nine seasons and scored 23 goals. He went back to his Thuringian homeland, where he was again in Tiefenort for one season in the squad of the GDR league team. Subsequently, Otto trained lower-class clubs in Thuringia. So from 1996 he trained Wacker Bad Salzungen in the national class for seven years. His last coaching position was the Thuringian state class representative FC Schwallungen, where Otto had to stop in 2008 due to illness.

Stations

• Kali Werra Tiefenort (youth)
• until 1974: ASG Forward Meiningen
• 1974 to 1975: ASG Vorwärts Plauen
• 1975 to 1984: FC Vorwärts Frankfurt
• 1984 to 1985: Potash Werra Tiefenort
• 1996 to 2003: Wacker Bad Salzungen (trainer)
• until 2008: FC Schwallungen (coach)

Private

Otto was a trained industrial clerk. He also later completed an engineering degree and worked underground as a labor economist. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Otto retrained as a carpet dealer.

statistics

• Total competitive games: 223 (39 goals)
• DDR-Oberliga: 164 games, 23 goals

literature

• Hanns Leske: Forward. Army football in GDR socialism . Rise and fall of ASK / FC Vorwärts Leipzig / Berlin / Frankfurt. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89533-647-8 , p. 205 .