Peter Wirth (soccer player)

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Wirth as a union player in 1983

Peter Wirth (born September 16, 1959 ) was a football player in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of the East German Football Association . There he played for 1. FC Union Berlin . For the GDR junior national team, he played 17 international matches.

Athletic career

The son of 28-time GDR national soccer player Günther Wirth began his soccer career at the age of eight in 1967 at 1. FC Union Berlin, the successor club to Motor Oberschöneweide, where his father was once active. From 1975 Peter Wirth played in the junior team of 1. FC Union and was discovered there for the GDR junior national team. On May 24, 1977 he played his first international junior match. In the 1-0 win in Poland, he played on the position of right defender. By April 1978 Wirth was used in a total of 17 international matches of the junior team. From 1978 the 1. FC Union used him as a striker in its junior league team. In the meantime, Wirth had finished his apprenticeship as a cable mechanic.

Although Wirth had also been nominated for the junior league for the 1978/79 season, he came to eight appearances in the GDR league during this season. There he played his first game on August 26, 1978, shortly before his 19th birthday, in a 0-0 draw in his own stadium against Rot-Weiß Erfurt. He was used in the 71st minute, as well as in most of the subsequent league games. He was only in the starting eleven as a right striker on matchday 24, but only played for 67 minutes. The 1.77 m tall Wirth scored his first goal for the league team on June 9, 1979, when he scored the winning goal in the 87th minute of the away match against Stahl Riesa on the last day of the season to make it 2-1. For the 1979/80 season he was registered for the first time for the GDR Oberliga squad. However, he only played the first five point games as a winger, after which he was returned to the junior league. The first team ended the season as relegated. Union spent two seasons there, in which Wirth completed eleven of the 22 point games and seven games in the promotion round to the league with the first team only in the 1981/82 season. Union finished second in the promotion round and thus achieved the return to first class.

Although coach Harry Nippert Wirth had planned as a striker for the 1982/83 league season and used him at the beginning, Wirth won a regular position as a full-back during the season and made 20 league appearances this season. 1983/84 he specialized in the league as a left defender and was only missing in two point games. The season ended for Union again as relegated. The new coach Karl Schäffner also planned with Wirth as a defender, but only used him in 14 of the 34 GDR league games . Union managed to get promoted immediately, but coach Schäffner planned the new league season 1985/86 without Wirth, who was reported for the third-class district league team Union II. In November 1985 Wirth was a soldier for three years in the "National People's Army" and did not return to 1. FC Union. For his first team, he played 98 competitive games between 1978 and 1985, scoring seven goals. In the league he played 59 times and scored two goals.

During his time in the army, Wirth played with the army sports community Vorwärts Dessau in the second-rate GDR league. After his discharge from the army, he joined the GDR league team Rotation Berlin at short notice in November 1988 , but at the beginning of 1989 he switched to the third-rate district league team Stahl Hennigsdorf , which he immediately helped to promote to the GDR league. In 1989/90 Wirth played one more season for Hennigsdorf in the GDR league, after which he ended his career as a competitive athlete at the age of almost 31. As a recreational footballer, he was then active in the lower-class Berlin clubs Empor Berlin , Adlershofer BC and Eintracht Mahlsdorf .

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SURNAME Wirth, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1959