Peter Rock

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Peter Rock (left) 1966

Peter Rock (born December 16, 1941 in Rudolstadt ) was a football player in the top division of the GDR football association Oberliga . He played there for SC Motor / FC Carl Zeiss Jena and was three times champion and one cup winner with him. Rock is an eleven GDR national player and won the bronze medal in the Olympic football tournament in 1964.

Soccer career

Beginnings in Jena

Rock was a young football player at the company sports association Einheit Rudolstadt and completed an apprenticeship as a blacksmith during this time. In 1960 he was delegated to the top sports club in the SC Motor Jena region. A year later, the club put him in its league team, in which rock played nine of the 39 point games in the 1961 season. In the following season 1962/63 he belonged to the player base of the 1st team. He was used in 21 of 26 league point games and scored his first seven league goals as a 1.72 m right winger. At the end of the season, SC Motor celebrated its first football championship and Rock won its first title. This season, Rock was also included in the squad of the GDR youth national team. On October 14, 1962, he played as a center forward, his first junior international game in the encounter Romania - GDR (0: 1). By 1965, he was used in a total of nine international matches for the youth team.

With the 1963/64 season, Jena's coach Georg Buschner Rock took back to midfield, a year later he played in defense, and this area was reserved for him in the further course of his career. On the defensive, however, Rock managed to become the top goalscorer of his team in 1965/66 with eight goals, which had meanwhile changed from SC Motor to FC Carl Zeiss Jena. Until 1972 he managed to present himself as a top scorer in the league every season.

A national team and Olympic selection

In 1967, Rock began his career as a national team player . After he had already come to two missions in the B national team in September and October, he made his debut in the A national team on December 6, 1967 in Bucharest against Romania. In the 1-0 victory in the Olympic qualification for the Games in Mexico , he was used as a central defender for the entire duration of the game. Then he had to be content with the role of a substitute player, only from 1970 he was used as a Libero in six games in a row. His several international goals were of particular importance. On April 16, 1969, Rock, who came on as a substitute in the 77th minute, scored the 2-1 winner in the World Cup qualifier against Wales in the 90th minute, fueling hopes of participating in the 1970 World Cup. Ultimately, however, the GDR missed the Qualification. On February 2, 1971, Rock played his last and eleventh A international match during a South American tour in Santiago de Chile with a 1-0 victory over Chile.

Between 1964 and 1968 Rock was also a member of the GDR's soccer team . He was part of the squad for the 1964 Olympic football tournament in Tokyo , but was not intended as a regular player. He was initially only used in the preliminary round match against Mexico (2-0). After Klaus Urbanczyk injured himself in the semifinals (1: 2 against Czechoslovakia), coach Károly Sós Rock also used in the small final, but with the proviso that he would give his medal to Urbanczyk if he won. The GDR won 3-1 over Egypt, and Rock passed his bronze medal on to Urbanczyk. He later received a replica of the medal from the GDR-NOK . Rock also later commented: “To be honest, the decision was not an easy one for me. At that time I was only 22 years old and, of course, very hot for the medal. ”In 1967 and 1968, Rock played three of six qualifying games for the 1968 Olympics. The GDR team, however, could not qualify for Mexico City.

Successful at FC Carl Zeiss Jena

In 1967/68 Rock won its second GDR soccer championship with FC Carl Zeiss Jena, in which it was involved with 22 stakes and six goals. He also reached the final of the GDR soccer cup for the first time , but the Jena lost on June 9, 1968 with Rock as central defender against 1. FC Union Berlin with 1: 2. In 1970 Rock became champions for the third time with FC Carl Zeiss, and on May 14, 1972, he also won the trophy. As a libero , he secured the 2-1 victory over Dynamo Dresden. This 1971/72 season was the last time Rock was in action as a regular. 1972/73 he played only 13 league point games, in the second half of the season he was only three times in the team. As a 31-year-old, he completed three league point games in the first half of the 1973/74 season. For the last time he appeared on October 27, 1973 in the league. In the game FC Carl Zeiss - Chemie Leipzig (5-1) he was used again as a midfielder.

Within thirteen years, Rock had played 339 competitive games for FC Carl Zeiss Jena and scored 49 goals. He played 254 times in the league (37 goals), 34 times in the national cup competition (7) and in 51 international cup games (5) - of which 28 (1) in the European Cup and 23 (4) in the IFC , a forerunner of the later UI cups . From 1974 to 1989 Rock was the team leader of the Jena league team. 1996 awarded the club with the Golden Badge of Honor.

successes

  • GDR champion 1963, 1968, 1970
  • GDR cup winner 1972
  • Bronze medal Tokyo 1964

literature

  • Andreas Baingo, Michael Hohlfeld: Soccer selection player of the GDR. The encyclopedia. Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00875-6 , pp. 139-140.
  • Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: History of the GDR Oberliga . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , page 108.
  • Michael Horn, Gottfried Weise : The great lexicon of GDR football. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-536-8 , p. 285.
  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 317.
  • Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .
  • Hanns Leske : The GDR league players. A lexicon. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-392-9 , pp. 412-413.

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Footnotes / Notes

  1. ↑ In 1961 the football season was changed from the calendar year rhythm to the autumn-spring season and was played over three rounds.
  2. ↑ The FIFA the two Olympic qualifiers against Romania from 1967 evaluates in contrast to communications and DFB not as official international caps . Since Rock made his debut in the second of these two games, FIFA only lists 10 full international matches for him.
  3. ^ Horn / Weise, Lexikon des GDR football, p. 285
personal data
SURNAME Rock, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Rudolstadt