Olaf Keller
Olaf Keller (born October 5, 1945 in Krumpa ; † October 24, 2019 ) was a German soccer goalkeeper and soccer coach. As a coach, he worked in 1981/82 with Chemie Buna Schkopau in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of the GDR Football Association .
Athletic career
At the age of seven, Keller began to play soccer for the company sports association (BSG) Chemie in Lützkendorf . In 1960 he moved to the BSG activist Geiseltal , where he last played in the third-class Halle district league . In 1964, the BSG delegated him to the GDR upper division SC Motor Jena, from which FC Carl Zeiss Jena was formed a year later . However, Keller did not make the leap into the 1st team, and so he moved to the upper division Hallescher FC Chemie in 1968. There he stayed only one season and was also not used in the league team. For the 1969/70 season, Keller joined the BSG Chemie Buna Schkopau, with whom he initially played again in the district league. With him he was district champion in his first season, but failed in the promotion round to the GDR league . In 1971 the chemists were able to defend their championship title and were automatically promoted due to the expansion of the GDR league. This was followed by an interplay between the GDR league and the district league, before Schkopau could permanently assert itself in the second-rate GDR league from 1973. When Keller ended his career as a goalkeeper in 1976, BSG Chemie Buna Schkopau had reached seventh place in the twelve-team season C by the end of the season.
Immediately after the end of his goalkeeping career, he continued his football career with his previous team as a coach. In his first coaching season he improved the team to fourth place, and in the fifth year of his coaching he led the BSG in 1981 to promotion to the GDR upper league. As a blatant outsider, Schkopau was relegated after a year, and Keller looked after the team for another year in the GDR league. In the 1983/84 season, Keller was assistant coach under Harro Miller at the first division club 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig , then he moved to the relegated division Hallescher FC Chemie . After he failed within two years to return the Halle residents to the league, he was replaced by Karl Trautmann after the 1985/86 season .
In the period that followed, Keller, who had been trained as a teacher, was a two-year trainer for the GDR league club Chemie Böhlen (1987–1988) and Stahl Thale (1988–1990). After the introduction of the DFB game operations in East Germany, Keller withdrew from football and worked in the private sector.
literature
- Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , page 246.
- Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 .
- Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .
Web links
- Olaf Keller in the database of the German Football Association
- Olaf Keller in the database of weltfussball.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituaries of Olaf Keller | www.sehen-haben.de. Accessed November 12, 2019 (German).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Keller, Olaf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer goalkeeper and soccer coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krumpa |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 24, 2019 |