Olaf Bitzka

Olaf Bitzka (born March 15, 1962 ) was a football player in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of the GDR Football Association . He played there for FC Vorwärts Frankfurt (Oder) and BSG Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt .

Soccer career

FC Forward Frankfurt (Oder)

Bitzka grew up in the Niederlausitz town of Spremberg and played football with Turbine Spremberg until he was 16 . In 1978 he was delegated to the top club of the GDR Army Sports Association , FC Vorwärts Frankfurt (Oder). In Frankfurt , Bitzka completed an apprenticeship as a vehicle fitter and played at FC Vorwärts (FCV), first in the junior team, then in the junior league team. When the junior league was dissolved in 1983, Bitzka played in the 1983/84 season with the 2nd team in the third-class district league Frankfurt . After FCV II was promoted to the GDR league in the summer of 1984 , 1.81 m tall Bitzka was nominated again for this team, but was also used in five league games of the first team towards the end of the 1984/85 season. Bitzka made his debut in the major league on March 20, 1985 in the match on the 17th match day FCV - Chemie Leipzig (3: 1) as a pre-stopper . He played his most league games for FCV in the 1985/86 season with 21 appearances, mainly as a left defender. 1986/87 he fell back into the role of substitute player. He played eleven times in the league, but was only in the starting line-up in seven matches. After he had only played two games as a midfielder in the first half of the 1987/88 season, in which he was also substituted, he was dismissed at FC Vorwärts Frankfurt at the end of 1987. In his four seasons at the Army Club, where he last held the rank of sergeant major, he had come to 39 league missions without scoring a goal.

Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt

After a short interlude until the summer of 1988 at the district division BSG Chemie PCK Schwedt , Bitzka joined the second division Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt. With 28 of 34 played GDR league league games and one goal, Bitzka belonged as a right defender and team captain to the tribe of the team that made it to the top division in the summer of 1989. In the following league seasons 1989/90 and 1990/91, Bitzka was again a fixture as a defender within the team with 22 and 23 appearances, which surprisingly reached relegation in 1990 and only narrowly failed to qualify for the 2nd Bundesliga in 1991. In the last GDR Cup final in 1991 (Hansa Rostock - Eisenhüttenstadt 1-0), Bitzka was not involved. But he was used on July 31, 1991 in the Supercup semi-final game Eisenhüttenstadt - Werder Bremen (0: 1) as a defender. From 1991/92 he played with the successor club Eisenhüttenstädter FC Stahl in the third-class amateur league Northeast . By participating in the cup final, the Eisenhüttenstadt team had qualified for the European Cup Winners' Cup 1991/92 and played two games against the Turkish club Galatasaray Istanbul (1: 2, 0: 3). Bitzka was involved in both games, once as a midfielder and once in defense. After the end of the 1992/92 season, Bitzka ended his career as a football player in the performance area. As a recreational footballer, he played for the association league club MSV Hanse Frankfurt in 2003/04 , and in 2011 he was still active for the old men of the Frankfurt FC Viktoria , the successor club of the FV Vorwärts.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 73.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pp. 309, 313.
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .

Web links

• Olaf Bitzka in the database of the German Football Association