Peter Schäfer (soccer player)

Peter Schäfer (born November 30, 1941 ) is a former German football player who was active between 1961 and 1970 in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football .

Athletic career

In the 1961/62 season, in which 39 games had to be completed because of the return to the summer-spring rhythm, Peter Schäfer played his first league game for the SC Rotation Leipzig . On the 15th matchday, the 19-year-old was used as a left winger in the home game against SC Dynamo Berlin . He replaced the pausing regular player Wolfgang Behla , was subsequently used in 13 other league games in the attack and scored three goals. When Behla returned to the team for the 1962/63 season, Schäfer was only a substitute and was only used in four league games.

After Schäfer had done his military service in the National People's Army between 1963 and 1964 , he joined the BSG Stahl Riesa in the second-rate GDR league for the 1964/65 season . There he played three seasons, in which he was called up 76 times as a striker in a total of 90 GDR league games. He was one of the goalscorers every season and scored twelve goals during the period mentioned.

For the 1967/68 season for the top division Dynamo Dresden. There he only came to a league assignment when three regular players were canceled on the 3rd matchday. In his atypical position in midfield, he could not convince, and since Dynamo Dresden was well equipped with strikers, Schäfer was only used in the reserve team until the winter break.

At the beginning of the second half of the season, Schäfer returned to Stahl Riesa. As a substitute, he was used for the first time in the second game after the winter break. In the following eleven league games, despite his four goals, he initially had difficulty adjusting, because only at the end of the season he was in the team in five matches over the full game. The BSG Stahl ended the season as a climber in the league. Schäfer was called up there on the 1st match day, but then had to wait until after the winter break to play ten more games in the upper league in the storm and in the midfield fairly regularly. In the second half of the season he scored four goals. 1969/70 he was without a goal, but came to 18 league missions, in which he was mainly called up in midfield. At the age of 40, Peter Schäfer ended his career in high-class football after eight seasons.

literature

• The new football week : born 1961–1970. ISSN  0323-8407
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 427.
• Andreas Baingo , Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 330.

Web links

• Peter Schäfer in the database of the German Football Association
• Peter Schäfer in the database of weltfussball.de