Michael Schneider (soccer player)

Michael Schneider (born March 16, 1964 ) is a former German soccer player. For FC Karl-Marx-Stadt and Energie Cottbus , he played in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of the GDR Football Association .

Athletic career

As a trained maintenance mechanic, Schneider came to the GDR league team activist Black Pump in May 1984 from the Vorwärts Kamenz army sports association , where he was able to play football as a striker in the second-rate GDR league during his military service with the National People's Army . There he played 39 of 51 played point games by December 1985 and scored ten goals.

For the second half of the 1985/86 season, the 1.77 meter tall tailor moved to FC Karl-Marx-Stadt in the league. There were with Mario Neuhäuser and Sven Koehler two midfielders failed and Schneider immediately took this position where he remainder of the season denied eleven point games. With his four goals, he kept his previous goal threat. 1986/87 he came to 18 league appearances and was now mainly used as a striker, but came on two league goals. In the season 1987/88 he fell out for the entire first half of the season and then only played in four matches as a midfielder. After 33 league games with six goals in three seasons, Schneider retired from FC Karl-Marx-Stadt in the summer of 1988.

At the beginning of the 1988/89 season Schneider moved to the league promoted Energie Cottbus. Within three seasons he was only used in 41 point games and scored four goals. In the seasons 1988/89 and 1990/91 he was only called up in the second half of the season. He played the full 90 minutes only ten times. In 1991 Cottbus rose after integration into the DFB game operations in the third-class amateur league , where Schneider played a total of 26 point games with six goals by the end of the 1991/92 season.

In the mid-1980s, Schneider was part of the GDR Olympic team . However, he played only one test match in September 1986 against Finland in preparation for the qualifying games for the 1988 Olympics , in the course of which the GDR failed as second in the group.

literature

• Andreas Baingo , Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pages 302 and 325.
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 444.
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .
• DSFS (Ed.): GDR Chronicle 1949–1991. GDR football in data, facts and figures. Volume 7: 1984 / 85-1988 / 89. Berlin 2010.
• DSFS (Ed.): GDR Chronicle 1949–1991. GDR football in data, facts and figures. Volume 8: 1989 / 90–1990 / 91 as well as player and coach ABC. Berlin 2011.
• Hanns Leske : The GDR league players. A lexicon . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-392-9 , page 471.

Web links

• Michael Schneider in the database of weltfussball.de
• Michael Schneider in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Michael Schneider in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Michael Schneider in the database of the German Football Association
• Michael Schneider at fcenergie-museum.de