SASK Elstal

The Soviet Army Sports Club Elstal was a Soviet sports club from Elstal in today's Havelland district . Home was the former Olympic Village in Elstal , which had been set up for the 1936 Summer Olympics . Until 1992, the club was under the control of the Soviet Armed Forces in Germany, just like the SASK Wünsdorf, which existed in parallel .

In the SASK, Soviet competitive athletes trained in various sports during their military service within the Soviet western group. The club occasionally took part in sporting events, tournaments and sports festivals in the GDR, but was never integrated into championships or competitions. With the withdrawal of the Soviet troops, the club was dissolved in the early 1990s.

Football section

SASK loan Juri Adshem (left) in action for KWO Berlin

The SASK's football department consisted almost exclusively of CSKA Moscow players in military service . The club often competed against BFC Dynamo , Union Berlin and 1. FC Magdeburg as a test opponent for major league or league teams.

From the 1970s onwards, the SASK functioned as the only club that loaned foreign players on a larger scale in GDR football. While foreign players for the GDR Oberliga were not permitted by the German Football Association , at least players were allowed to play in the second-rate GDR league . In the beginning it was only isolated cases, but the SASK increasingly lent Soviet players to the GDR league.

The borrowers were often ambitious company sports associations such as Motor Nordhausen , Motor Weimar , DEFA Babelsberg or TSG Neustrelitz , who hoped for a correspondingly higher level through the Soviet players, some of whom had first-class experience . With the DFV football resolution of 1983, foreign players were no longer allowed to play in the league from 1984, so that the SASK only loaned its players to the third-rate district leagues . The loan dealerships for KWO Berlin proved to be a successful model , which at times ran up to four SASK players and won the East Berlin championship four times between 1985 and 1988 . These SASK players were brought up from their army bases especially for the KWO games. The then KWO trainer and later player agent Dieter Fietz acted as general manager for the ZSKA after the fall of the wall .

Handball section

The club also had a handball team that played in the Potsdam District League (III League), but was not eligible for promotion to the GDR League. In 1971, SASK Elstal became district champion in Potsdam.

people

• Vyacheslav Viktorovich Tschanow

literature

• Sergej Morosow / SASK Elstal In: Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://bundesligainfo.de/Archiv/MDDR/1971M3.php Archive DDR-Handball at bundesligainfo.de