Otto Hoppe (soccer player)

Otto Hoppe (born July 7, 1940 ) is a former German soccer goalkeeper. In the 1960s and 1970s he played for 1. FC Magdeburg and Motor Babelsberg in the GDR league

Athletic career

Only at the age of 26 did Otto Hoppe make his debut in the GDR league, the second highest division in GDR football . After 1. FC Magdeburg had to surrender its previous goalkeeper Wolfgang Blochwitz to FC Carl Zeiss Jena after its relegation from the GDR Oberliga after the 1965/66 season , FCM signed Otto Hoppe as the second goalkeeper behind Hans-Georg Moldenhauer . As a representative of Moldenhauer, Hoppe was only used in seven GDR league games in the 1966/67 season. So he was also involved in the promotion to the league, but there he was only classified as the third goalkeeper in 1967/68 behind Moldenhauer and Gert Jüsgen and was not used in the league games.

For the 1968/69 season, Hoppe moved to the company sports community (BSG) Motor Babelsberg, which had previously been relegated from the GDR league to the third-rate Potsdam district league . In 1971 he managed to rise again with BSG Motor, played one season in the GDR league, where he played 18 of the 22 point games, but was relegated again after a year. 1973 Hoppe returned to the GDR league again with Babelsberg and spent the next seven seasons there. Until 1980 he was the number one goal at BSG Motor and was 147 times in goal in 154 GDR league games. In the summer of 1980 Otto Hoppe ended his career in the GDR league, in which he had played a total of 172 games. He joined the district league team Motor Teltow , with whom he won the football district cup in 1981.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1966–1981. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 225.
• DSFS (ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949–1991 (Volume 8). Berlin 2011, p. 207.