Sandy Enge

Sandy Enge
Personnel
birthday	June 30, 1971
place of birth	Halberstadt ,  GDR
size	179 cm
position	Defender
Juniors
Years	station
1985-1989	1. FC Magdeburg
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1988-1992	1. FC Magdeburg	64 (0)
1992-1993	VfL Germania Leer
1993-1996	VfB Oldenburg	77 (2)
1996-1997	1. FC Bocholt	24 (0)
1997-1999	Eintracht Nordhorn	31 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1988	GDR U-18	1 (0)
1989-1990	DDR Olympia	6 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Sandy Enge (born June 30, 1971 in Halberstadt ) was a soccer player at 1. FC Magdeburg , for which he played 46 games in the GDR league . After 1992 he played for clubs in Lower Saxony and Westmünsterland , including in the then third-class regional league .

Athletic career

At first, Enge began playing soccer at BSG Motor Südost Magdeburg. At the age of 14 he joined the student team at 1. FC Magdeburg and then went through all other youth teams. As a youth player (age group 15/16) he was appointed to the GDR U-16 national team and completed eleven international matches in this selection. For the 1987/88 season Enge was included as a midfielder in the squad of the junior league team of 1. FC Magdeburg. The following year he was with the FCM in this league GDR champion . As a junior player (age group 17/18) Enge was also part of the U-18 squad of the DFV and played an international match there. After completing his school education, he began an apprenticeship as a machine and system fitter.

Already at the age of 17 Enge played his first league game in the GDR league. On August 27, 1988, he was used in the match between Stahl Brandenburg and 1. FCM (1: 2) as the central defender for the full 90 minutes. He is the youngest GDR league player in the FCM. Overall, he played six times in the first division in the 1988/89 season. In February 1989 Enge took part with the GDR youth national team in the 1989 U-20 World Cup in Saudi Arabia. He played two of the three preliminary round games and scored one goal. The GDR was eliminated from the tournament as third in group C with 2 points. In the late summer of 1989, Enge was appointed to the newly formed GDR Olympic team, with which he played several test matches and six games against other countries. Before the start of the qualifying games for the Olympics in 1992 , which were held for the first time in Europe via the U-21 European Championship , the DFV team was withdrawn in the course of German reunification .

After Enge had become champions with the junior team, the FCM officially nominated their 1.79-meter-tall defender with Jan Köhler and Timo Ehle, who also came from their own offspring, for the 1989/90 season for their league squad. Enge immediately established himself as a regular player in the defense area and made 20 point matches. Also in the 1990/91 season he was part of the Magdeburg team with 18 point games. He also played in two of the four Magdeburg UEFA Cup games this year , both against the Finnish team Rovaniemi PS (0-0, 1-0) . The last independent season of East German first division football served as a qualification opportunity for the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga . The FCM missed the leap into all-German professional football and so Enge had to compete with the FCM in the third-class amateur league in the NOFV area in 1991/92 . Of the 38 possible point games in this game year , Enge played in 18 games.

In the summer of 1992 Enge left 1. FC Magdeburg and played in Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia in the third and fourth class, among others at VfL Germania Leer , VfB Oldenburg , 1. FC Bocholt and Eintracht Nordhorn . With the Oldenburg team he won the championship of the Regionalliga Nord in 1995/96 , but moved to Bocholt in West Munster before the start of the VfB second division season .

Later he was a player at FC Rastede and worked as a youth coach. From this club he moved to TuS Hahn-Lehmden in 2008.

literature

• Volkmar Laube : 1. FC Magdeburg - My Club. ESV Verlagsgesellschaft GmbH, Magdeburg 2000, ISBN 3-930794-02-0 .
• Andreas Baingo , Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 .
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 .
• Hanns Leske : The GDR league players. A lexicon . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-392-9 , page 96.

Web links

• Sandy Enge in the database of the German Football Association
• Sandy Enge in the database of weltfussball.de
• Sandy Enge in the database of transfermarkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ MH: Sandy Enge now in Lehmden. Nordwest-Zeitung Online, August 26, 2008.