Ralph Kircheis

Ralph Kircheis (born January 14, 1967 ) is a former German soccer goalkeeper. For FC Karl-Marx-Stadt he played in the GDR Oberliga and for the neighboring FSV Zwickau in the 2nd Bundesliga .

Athletic career

In 1980, Kircheis joined the youth department of FC Karl-Marx-Stadt (FCK), the football center of the GDR district of the same name . For the 1987/88 season he was taken over as the fourth goalkeeper in the FCK squad for the GDR Oberliga. As a substitute for the number one in the FCK goal Holger Hiemann , Kircheis played in four point games this season. At the beginning of the 1988/89 season he moved to the second division Stahl Riesa to become the first goalkeeper there. Before he was called up for military service in May 1989, he played 21 point games for the steelworkers. Through military service, Kircheis landed at the football focus of the GDR Army Sports Association , the second division club FC Vorwärts Frankfurt / Oder , for whom he was in a point game in the 1989/90 season.

After the GDR borders were opened in November 1989, Kircheis withdrew from FC Vorwärts, joined the Baden regional league club TSV Schwarzach and was part of the SV Waldhof Mannheim amateur team from 1990 onwards . For the 1990/91 season he moved up to the professional team of SV Waldhof, which played in the 2nd Bundesliga. However, Kircheis was not used there. From 1991 to 1994 he was a goalkeeper at 1. FC Walldorf in the Association League North Baden and after relegation in 1993 in the Landesliga Rhein-Neckar. In the spring of 1994, Kircheis returned to Saxony, where he and Rainer Hoffmeister formed the goalkeeper duo of FSV Zwickau during promotion to the second division in 1994 . Until 1996, Kircheis played seven games in the 2nd Bundesliga.

With the beginning of the 1996/97 season he was goalkeeper of the regional division Chemnitzer FC , successor club of FC Karl-Marx-Stadt. In addition to the goalkeeper Jörg Weißflog and his representative Steffen Süßner , he had no chance of action. In 1998 he ended his sports career because of a knee injury.

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 .
• DSFS: GDR Chronicle , Volume 7, 1984 / 85–1988 / 89

Web links

• Ralph Kircheis in the database of weltfussball.de
• Ralph Kircheis in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Ralph Kircheis in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Ralph Kircheis in the database of the German Football Association
• Kircheis at SV Waldhof