Ronald Szepanski

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Ronald Szepanski
Personnel
birthday 16th May 1966  (age 54)
place of birth Jena ,  GDR
size 171 cm
position Defender / midfielder
Juniors
Years station
1972-1983 FC Carl Zeiss Jena
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1983-1988 FC Carl Zeiss Jena II at least 90 (1)
1984-1990 FC Carl Zeiss Jena 34 (0)
1989 BSG Chemie IW Ilmenau 2 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1983-1984 GDR U-18 7 (1)
1 Only league games are given.

Ronald Szepanski (born May 16, 1966 ) is a former German soccer player. In the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football , he played for FC Carl Zeiss Jena in the 1980s .

Athletic career

First and second division football

With the second representation of FC Carl Zeiss, he succeeded as Gera district champion and through the promotion round in 1984, the jump into the second-class league in GDR football . Often commuting between the top division reserve and the first team in the East German elite class, he was able to wear the Jena dress on the field in 34 top division games until he left the football club in 1990.

This was the case for the first time on October 6, 1984. On the 7th matchday of the 1984/85 season he was immediately in the FCC starting XI on his debut, a 3-0 home win against BSG Stahl Riesa . The teenager's debut was rated positively in the trade journal fuwo : “The debut of 19-year-old Roland Szepanski (7 junior internationals), 'who has to go even smarter in the duels', explained Konrad Weise , calm pole of the defense, was also positive . “ The youngster played 90 minutes in the following week in the 0-1 away defeat at 1. FC Magdeburg.

After this entry into the Jena league team, however, almost three years passed before Ronald Szepanski was used again on the 6th match day of the 1987/88 season . His subsequent games and the performances shown in the right-back position brought him to the winter break 1987/88 in the fuwo even in the category "In conversation" in the 55 best list for the performances in the first half series. In the successful entry of Jena into the finals of the FDGB Cup competition this game year was involved with two appearances. In the final itself, the defensive power was not on the field.

Szepanski never became an undisputed regular player in Jena. The twelve appearances in the turning season , his last in the FCC jersey, represent the season high of his career. Between the appearances for Carl Zeiss on the 4th and 10th matchdays in 1989/90, the 23-year-old played in late summer and autumn 1989 as part of a game guest performance permit for the BSG chemical industry works Ilmenau in the League Season B . In the summer before reunification , Szepanski's trail, which on April 7, 1990 was accompanied by serious riots against the BFC successor FC Berlin (1: 1), in which he had to vacate his place for Frank Eschler after 37 minutes , is lost Strike from the top league was in higher-class football. In the kicker extra GDR Oberliga for the last independent season of East German football , which kicker sports magazine added to its Bundesliga special in the summer of 1990 , Szepanski was listed as "unknown" among the departures .

International

From 1983 to 1984 Szepanski belonged to the squad of the GDR junior national team . In his seven international appearances, he was only in the starting line-up twice. His only goal came in a 4-0 win against his contemporaries from Luxembourg in the U-18 European Championship in 1984 in the USSR. In this tournament, in which the GDR was eliminated in the preliminary round, the Jena player was only called up in this one game.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Thiemann: With commitment and morality. In: fuwo - The new football week . Oct. 9, 1984, page 6.
personal data
SURNAME Szepanski, Ronald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1966