Peter Kotte

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Peter Kotte (born December 8, 1954 in Lötzschen near Grossenhain) was a football player in the GDR league . He played there for SG Dynamo Dresden , with which he was three times champion and one cup winner. Kotte is a 21-time GDR national player . When an attempted escape to the Federal Republic of Germany was discovered by a teammate in 1981 , Kotte was imprisoned for co-science and then banned from the two top divisions in the DFV's game operations until German reunification.

Athletic career

Kotte began as a student at the company sports community (BSG) Lok in Lampertswalde and switched to the youth team of BSG Stahl Riesa in 1969 . During the 1972/73 season, Kotte moved up to the 1st men's team, which was represented in the second-rate GDR league this season . With 28 games in the league as well as a promotion round and three goals, the 18-year-old contributed to promotion to the league. He also finished his apprenticeship as a mechanic. In the league season 1973/74 he was used from the beginning as a left winger. On the 4th match day of the season he scored the first league goal of his career in the home game against FC Vorwärts Frankfurt, when he made the final score 1-1 in the 42nd minute. Looking for a replacement for his long-time injured top goal scorer, Hans-Jürgen Kreische , the coach of the current champions Dynamo Dresden Walter Fritzsch approached Kotte in the autumn of 1973 to persuade him to move to the district rival . After Kotte had received the promise to return to Riesa in the event of failure, he agreed to change. This took place from one matchday to the next, on the 10th matchday Kotte still played in Erfurt for Stahl Riesa, in the encounter on the 11th matchday Dynamo Dresden -1. FC Lok Leipzig 1-0 on November 24, 1973, Kotte was already on the left in the Dynamo team. By the end of the season he played in this position in all remaining point games. During the 1974/75 season he moved to the position of center forward, which he retained in the following years.

Already at the beginning of 1974 Kotte had been included in the squad of the GDR youth national team, with which he played his first international match on February 27, 1974 in the qualifying game for the youth European championship Italy - GDR (1: 1). With the junior team, he was twice vice European champion in 1974 and 1978 and played a total of 27 junior international matches by 1978. In these games he scored ten goals. Already on April 21, 1976 Kotte received his first appointment to an A international match . In the friendly game GDR - Algeria (5-0) he was used as a right winger and scored two goals in his first appearance. By 1980 he had completed 21 full internationals, in which he scored three goals. He also played an international B match on August 17, 1977 (Poland - GDR 2-1).

The league season 1975/76 ended Kotte with his first title in the league. With 22 game stakes and four goals he was involved in winning the championship of the Dresden Dynamos. In the 1976/77 season, Kotte could only play in the first half of the league due to injury and thus only contributed to a limited extent with 13 inserts and seven goals to defend Dresden's title. As a substitute for 17 minutes, he was also involved in winning the Cup on May 28, 1977 over 1. FC Lok Leipzig (3-2). Kotte played his most intense league season in 1977/78, when he was involved in the Dresden championship trick with 25 games and was his team's top scorer with eleven goals. He was also in the cup final again, but this time Dresden lost 1-0 to 1. FC Magdeburg. Until November 1980, Kotte remained the undisputed center forward at Dynamo Dresden. By then he had played 156 league games for Dresden within seven years and scored 53 goals. During this time he had been used in all 36 European Cup games in Dresden and scored four goals.

In January 1981, Kotte was to go on a South American tour with the national team. On departure, he was arrested together with his team- mates Matthias Müller and Gerd Weber from Dresden at Schönefeld Airport in East Berlin for attempting to " illegally cross the border ". On May 4, 1981, the Dresden District Court sentenced Weber in camera to two years and three months imprisonment, of which he had to serve eleven months. Müller and Kotte were released for complicity after several days of pre-trial detention at Dynamo Dresden and banned for life from the first and second soccer league.

Kotte then joined the third-rate district division progress Neustadt , with whom he won the Dresden district championship in 1982. The associated promotion to the league had the consequence for Kotte that he had to move to the 2nd team, as he was not allowed to play because of his suspension for the second-rate league. A year later he was able to move up to the 1st team again, as Neustadt was immediately relegated. In a league game in 1984, Kotte suffered a serious fibula injury. A threatened leg amputation could be averted, but the footballer's career was over for the 29-year-old.

In the meantime, Kotte had acquired the coaching license for the third division and could continue to participate in football as a coach. So he initially took over the training of his team in Neustadt , later he worked in the East Saxon area with lower-class teams in Großharthau , Dresden-Leuben , Heidenau and Freital . In 1990 Kotte was rehabilitated at Dynamo Dresden, in 2001 he became an honorary member and in 2002 he became a junior coach.

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SURNAME Kotte, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Lötzschen near Großenhain