Peter Keller (soccer player)

Peter Keller
Peter Keller (1990)
Personnel
Surname	Peter Keller
birthday	June 22, 1961
place of birth	GDR
size	180 cm
position	Defense / midfield
Juniors
Years	station
0000-1976	BSG locomotive Zwickau
1976-1979	Sachsenring Zwickau
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1979-1986	BSG Sachsenring Zwickau	174 (31)
1986-1994	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt / Chemnitzer FC	171 0(4)
1994-2000	FSV Zwickau	126 0(2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1987	DDR U-21	1 0(0)
1986-1987	DDR Olympia	8 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
	SV Motor Zwickau Süd
	VfB Lengenfeld
2006-2007	FSV Zwickau II
2007-2009	FSV Zwickau
1 Only league games are given.

Peter Keller (born June 22, 1961 ) is a German soccer coach and former soccer player.

Athletic career

League football

Peter Keller began his sporting career at BSG Lokomotive Zwickau and in 1976, at the age of 15, moved to the GDR upper division Sachsenring Zwickau . In 1979 he was accepted into the upper division squad of West Saxony. As early as the 1979/80 season , the 19-year-old first division debutant was a permanent member of the 1975 cup winners from the second half of the season at the latest . The defensive player made his debut in the major league on matchday 8 in the 5-0 away defeat against BFC Dynamo . In his 18 games in the premiere season, he was always in the starting line-up and was never replaced early.

Until the relegation of the Sachsenring-Elf in the summer of 1986 , the 1.80 meter tall and 74 kilogram heavy basement was deployed in the defense area and reached 114 league appearances in five seasons in the upper house and scored ten goals in them. 1983/84 and 1984/85 he was active with the team from the Georgi-Dimitroff Stadium in the second-rate league . If the BSG Sachsenring did not manage to return directly to the league in 1984 in the last promotion round after the relay victory, the eleven around Peter Keller could fight for re-admission to the top division in football of the workers and farmers state in 1985 .

After the second of three relegations at the end of the decade in the 1980s , Keller, who had meanwhile also completed training as a skilled worker for production equipment, joined FC Karl-Marx-Stadt at the beginning of the 1986/87 season . In his first year in Karl-Marx-Stadt he made 22 appearances in the league, but now as a midfielder. With the "Himmelblauen", Keller reached the final of the GDR soccer cup against BFC Dynamo in 1989 , which the Saxons lost 0-1 . In 1990 he was able to achieve the best position of his career with the runner-up and qualify for the European Cup for the second time in a row with the Himmelblauen after third place in the previous year . Between September 1989 and autumn 1990, Keller played eight international assignments for the FCK / CFC. In the UEFA Cup , the all-rounder played against Boavista Porto , FC Sion and Juventus Turin ( 1989/90 ) and Borussia Dortmund ( 1990/91 ).

With 5th place in the last GDR league season , the club, which has now been renamed Chemnitzer FC, qualified directly for the 2nd Bundesliga . Keller was able to increase his league point game account through a further 89 bets to a total of 203 games, in which he scored twelve hits. Until 1994, Keller had played 82 point games in the 2nd Bundesliga.

Then coach Gerd Schädlich brought Peter Keller back to Zwickau, where he played another 79 second division games (total: 161 with five goals) for the BSG-Sachsenring successor FSV Zwickau . After the 1999/2000 season , when Zwickau had been relegated to the third-class regional league two years earlier , he let his active career end in a friendly against Borussia Mönchengladbach .

Selection bets

In addition to an appearance in the U-21 team of the GDR , Peter Keller ran eight times for the Olympic team between 1986 and 1987 - without being fielded by coach Harro Miller in the qualifying games for the Olympic soccer tournament in Seoul. He did not score a goal in either team.

Further career

Keller then worked as a football coach, initially in the district class at SV Motor Zwickau Süd and the regional league club VfB Lengenfeld in Vogtland , before he returned to FSV Zwickau in July 2006 and took on the training of the 2nd team there. When the Zwickau league team came last after four defeats in a row in September 2007, Peter Keller was appointed coach of the first team in place of the dismissed Heinz Dietzsch. On April 6, 2009, the contract between Keller and the FSV was terminated by “mutual agreement”.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1979–1990. ISSN  0323-8628
• Andreas Baingo , Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pages 324 and 349.
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , page 246.
• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Player Lexicon 1963–1994 . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 , page 243.
• Hanns Leske : The GDR league players. A lexicon . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-392-9 , page 228.

Web links

• Peter Keller in the database of weltfussball.de
• Peter Keller in the database of transfermarkt.de (player profile)
• Peter Keller in the database of transfermarkt.de (trainer profile)
• Peter Keller in the database of the German Football Association