Rolf Starost

Rolf Starost (born June 25, 1942 ) is a former German soccer player. He played first division soccer for East Berlin's SC Dynamo Berlin and SC Viktoria Köln . Starost is a multiple GDR junior national player.

Athletic career

As a junior player, Starost was active in the East Berlin police club SC Dynamo Berlin. With him he was GDR junior champion in 1960. A year earlier he had been appointed to the junior national team of the GDR , for which he played his first international match on March 23, 1959. In the encounter between the GDR and France (3-1), he was called up as a central defender. By 1960 he played a total of eight junior internationals. For the 1961/62 season, Starost was accepted into the SC Dynamo league team, but was only used as a right defender on matchday 10 in the match between Motor Zwickau and SC Dynamo (1: 3), because the regular player in this position, Konrad Dorner , had hurt. By the summer break, Starost played the remaining three point games. On August 13, 1961, he completed his last game for SC Dynamo Berlin. On the day the Wall was built, he took the opportunity to go to West Berlin with his clubmate Emil Poklitar after a friendly at the Danish club Brönshöj BK Copenhagen .

In West Berlin, Starost initially joined Tennis Borussia Berlin , but could not be used there because the GDR football association had enforced a one-year ban due to the unauthorized change of association. For the 1962/63 season, Starost moved to Viktoria Köln in the Oberliga West , at that time one of the top five divisions of the DFB . There, however, he was only used in two point games under coach Hennes Weisweiler . One season later, Starost was no longer part of the Cologne squad and later no longer appeared in higher-class football.

In 1965 he attended a course to train coaches at the Hennes-Weisweiler Academy and worked as a certified sports teacher.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1959–1961. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 467.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 295.

Web links

• Rolf Starost in the database of the German Football Association
• Rolf Starost as a qualified sports teacher (PDF; 573 kB)