Peter Nestler (soccer player)

Peter Nestler (born March 22, 1951 in Bärenstein (Ore Mountains) ) was a football player in the GDR . In the top football league , he played for the BSG Sachsenring Zwickau , with which he won the 1975 cup.

Nestler began his football career with the company sports community (BSG) progress in his hometown Bärenstein. Through the district junior selection, he came to the football focus of the region, the FC Karl-Marx-Stadt . There he played during the 1972/73 season with the 2nd team in the second-rate GDR league . Then he was for a season with the GDR league club Motor Werdau . In June 1974, Nestler moved to the neighboring top division club Sachsenring Zwickau. There the trained toolmaker was given the opportunity to study mechanical engineering. The striker, who is only 1.66 m tall, played his first league game on September 14, 1974, when he was substituted on for center forward Hartmut Rentzsch in the 77th minute of the match on the 5th match day . In November of that year, the departure of defender Heinz Wohlrabe for military service caused a reorganization of the team structure, with which Nestler received a regular place as a left winger after two league games as a substitute. By the end of his first league season, Nestler was used in a total of 20 league point games and scored four goals.

In addition, Nestler played all seven games of the GDR soccer cup with which Sachsenring Zwickau reached the cup final. In the final, Nestler was also used in his regular position on the left wing and scored the 2-2 equalizer in the last minute of extra time, with which his team got the chance of the subsequent penalty shoot-out . Sachsenring won it 4: 3 and won the FDGB Cup for the third time, and it was Nestler's first title win. In the subsequent games for the European Cup Winners' Cup , with which the Sachsenring team reached the semi-finals, excluding such prominent teams as Fiorentina and Celtic Glasgow, Nestler was able to play in four of the eight matches because he was injured in October 1975 would have. In the semifinals against RSC Anderlecht (0: 3, 0: 2) he was substituted on in the first leg and played in Anderlecht as a center forward.

Until the winter of 1978 Nestler was the undisputed left winger at Sachsenring Zwickau. In the 1976/77 season he was Zwickau's top scorer with six championship goals. At the end of 1978 Nestler only ended his league career at the age of 27, in which he completed 94 of 117 games in the league within four and a half years and scored 19 goals.

From March 1978 on, Nestler played again for his former sports club Motor Werdau, which was still represented in the GDR league. Here, too, he was initially intended for the attack, but from 1980/81 he was nominated for the midfield. For the 1982/83 season Nestler moved to the GDR division Wismut Gera , where he also took on a role in midfield. During the current season 1983/84 Nestler left Gera and joined the fourth division Chemistry Greiz , which he helped promote to the Gera district league in the summer of 1984 . In 1988 Nestler ended his career as a football player in Greiz.

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 .