Peter Meyer (soccer player, 1942)

Peter Meyer (born September 7, 1942 ), nicknamed "Meyer-Perle", was a soccer goalkeeper in the GDR . He played for Motor Zwickau and Dynamo Dresden in the Oberliga , the highest GDR soccer class. He won the GDR soccer cup with Motor Zwickau in 1963 . Meyer is a four-time junior national player.

Meyer joined the junior team of the company sports club Motor Zwickau in 1959 at the age of 16 . In 1961 he was accepted into the squad of the junior national team and played with her on February 19, 1961 in Dresden against Austria (2-2), his first of four junior international matches. In the GDR major league, he replaced Heinz Franke in the 1962/63 season with 20 of 26 possible point game inserts as a regular goalkeeper. On May 1, 1963 he won his only title after a 3-0 victory in the cup final against Chemie Zeitz. A year later, the 1.74 m tall Meyer was missing only in one league point game and also played the two European Cup gamesthe Zwickau against MTK Budapest (1-0, 0-2). By May 1965, Meyer was used in a total of 64 league league games. He was then called up for military service and was able to continue playing football in the third-class district league Karl-Marx-Stadt for the army sports community Vorwärts Frankenberg for the year and a half .

After his discharge from military service, Meyer joined the upper division Dynamo Dresden in 1966, who needed a replacement for his previous goalkeeper Peter Noske . Meyer played his first league game for Dresden on matchday 6 of the 1966/67 season. It was his only first division appearance this season, because coach Manfred Fuchs gave preference to Manfred Kallenbach , who was of the same age . Meyer remained only the role of substitute in the following season and was mainly used in the second team playing in the third-rate district league. At the end of the 1967/68 season, in which Meyer played five league games, Dynamo Dresden was relegated to the GDR league . There Meyer achieved the breakthrough in the 1st team with 28 out of 30 possible point games. Dynamo Dresden made an immediate promotion, and Meyer also started the new league season 1969/70 as number one in the Dresdner Tor. It was not until the 18th match day that he had to give up his regular place again to Kallenbach and was then no longer used in the 1st team. Since Meyer no longer played in the league later, there were 64 first division games for Motor Zwickau and 22 league appearances at Dynamo Dresden.

When the young Claus Boden established himself as the second goalkeeper behind Kallenbach in 1972, Meyer left Dresden in the summer of 1972 and moved to the GDR league team Motor Werdau at the age of almost 30 . There he was in goal in over 250 GDR league games until 1984 and only narrowly missed promotion to the league in 1976.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 .
• 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 .
• Norbert Peschke , Dieter Völkel, Frank Kruczynski (photos): The history of FSV Zwickau . of wasp stings and heaps of heaps. Ed .: Fußball-Sport-Verein Zwickau eV Zschiesche, Wilkau-Haßlau 2012, ISBN 978-3-9815145-0-6 .