Marco Köller
| Marco Köller | ||
 Marco Köller (front) 1989
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | June 25, 1969 | |
| place of birth | East Berlin , GDR | |
| size | 173 cm | |
| position | Defender | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1975-1977 | BSG Academy of Sciences | |
| 1977-1979 | BSG Turbine Treptow | |
| 1979-1981 | 1. FC Union Berlin | |
| 1981-1986 | BFC Dynamo | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1986-1989 | BFC Dynamo II | 18 (3) |
| 1986-1989 | BFC Dynamo | 67 (2) |
| 1990-1991 | MSV Duisburg | 7 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1986 | GDR U-18 | 10 (0) |
| 1986-1987 | DDR U-20 | 10 (3) |
| 1988-1989 | DDR U-21 | 4 (0) |
| 1988-1989 | DDR Olympia | 5 (0) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Marco Köller (born June 25, 1969 in East Berlin ) is a former German soccer player . At the end of the 1980s, the defender was considered to be one of the greatest talents in GDR football , but after the reunification he was unable to build on his previous successes due to health and personal difficulties. He ended his professional career in 1991 after a few games in the 2nd Bundesliga .
career
Köller moved within Berlin in 1981 from 1. FC Union Berlin to the junior division of the later GDR record champions BFC Dynamo , after he had started playing football at the BSG Academy of Sciences and the BSG Turbine Treptow . Because of his good performance, he was appointed to the junior national team for the U-18 European Championship in 1986 , which the GDR team around Matthias Sammer and Rico Steinmann won. For the GDR football magazine , fuwo , Köller was “[T] he discovery of the finals! (...) The Endspieltor his consistently excellent performances crowned. " As a reward for his good form he was already on the next day of the 1986/87 season in the league of BFC Dynamo appointed -Mannschaft and debuted at the 4: 0 away win of Wine Red at FC Carl Zeiss Jena . By the fall of 1989, he completed 67 games for the club in the top division of the GDR with two goals scored in the 1988/89 season . In 1987 he was third in all six games on the ball with the GDR selection at the U-20 World Cup . In the following two years after this World Cup bronze medal, Marco Köller was used five times in the GDR Olympic team and four times in the U-21 team .
With the series champion BFC he played in the European Cup (8 games without a goal) against some of the major European clubs. Due to his class, Köller was already part of the extended circle of the senior national team , but the reasons for his later failure became apparent: he was noticed by high alcohol consumption, low discipline and little training diligence, which is why the coach of the BFC Dynamo him for a few games banished to the 2nd team. The first chronic injury concerns also emerged, for example pain in the feet.
In autumn 1989 he fled to the Federal Republic of Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall , where he received a contract with the second division club MSV Duisburg for the 1990/91 season . After just three match days he was out for six weeks due to an injury and after another four games his foot injury finally broke through again. Köller tried to drown the frustration with alcohol and gambling and went broke due to the high losses. After a scandal at the Duisburg Christmas party in 1990 - he knocked down the managing director of Meidericher, Dirk Keiper, under the influence of alcohol - he left Duisburg for Berlin in March 1991 and thus ended his career as a professional footballer. In the mid-1990s he played for SV Bau-Union Berlin in the Berlin district leagues B and A.
Private
After returning to Berlin in the early 1990s, he worked in construction and as a landscape gardener. He was given a suspended sentence for driving without a license and under the influence of alcohol . He was also on trial for a bar fight.
successes
- GDR champions : 1987 , 1988
- GDR runner-up: 1989
- FDGB Cup winners : 1988 , 1989
- U-18 European Champion : 1986
- U-20 World Cup third : 1987
literature
- "Soccer: boss in the opera café" . In DER SPIEGEL . December 23, 1996, pp. 130-132.
- Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 9: Player Lexicon 1963-1994. Bundesliga, regional league, 2nd league. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 , p. 265.
- Hanns Leske : The GDR league players. A lexicon. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-392-9 , p. 244.
Web links
- Marco Köller in the database of weltfussball.de
- Marco Köller in the database of fussballdaten.de
- Marco Köller in the database of transfermarkt.de
- Marco Köller in the database of the German Football Association
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Manfred Binkowski: Teamwork with excellent individualists. In: fuwo - The new football week . Oct 21, 1986, p. 9.
- ↑ Spiegel article from December 23, 1996
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Köller, Marco |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1969 |