Stefan Meixner (soccer player)

Stefan Meixner
Stefan Meixner (1982)
Personnel
birthday	October 13, 1962
place of birth	Erfurt ,  GDR
size	183 cm
position	midfield player
Juniors
Years	station
0000-1974	FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt
1974-1981	FC Carl Zeiss Jena
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1981-1992	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	182 (13)
1984-1987	FC Carl Zeiss Jena II	at least 6 0(1)
1996-1998	SV 1910 Kahla	at least 17 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1980-1981	DDR Juniors	16 (3)
1981-1983	DDR U-21	20 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Stefan Meixner (born October 13, 1962 in Erfurt ) was a football player at FC Carl Zeiss Jena , for whom he played in the GDR Oberliga and in the 2nd Bundesliga . Meixner is a multiple GDR junior and young national player.

Athletic career

League football

Meixner went through the junior teams at FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt , but then moved to FC Carl Zeiss Jena in 1974. There he played first in the youth and from 1978 in the juniors. At the age of 16 he was included in the junior league squad for the 1979/80 season .

For the 1981/82 season Meixner was nominated by FC Carl Zeiss for the first time for the GDR Oberliga team. Already on the 6th matchday he came to his first league assignment, in which he was called up in the game FC Carl Zeiss against FC Hansa Rostock (5-0) on September 26, 1981 in the right midfield. From the 10th game day on, the 1.83 meter tall Meixner was used fairly regularly with the exception of the last season games, so that he came to a total of 15 games in his first league season. In 1982 Meixner finished his training as a precision mechanic. In the league season 1982/83 he managed with only 15 missions, mostly on or off, not yet to gain a permanent foothold in the first team. That did not change a year later, although he was able to increase to 20 league games.

For the 1984/85 season he was only nominated for the 2nd team in the planning, but he was used in all league games from the 2nd matchday on, only two games he did not play for the full time. With the exception of the seasons 1986/87 and 1989/90, in which he played only six and eleven league games, respectively, Meixner remained a regular in midfield until 1991. 1987/88 he played his most intense season. He was in all 26 league games and completed five games in the GDR Cup competition, with which he and his team reached the final of the FDGB Cup . There, FC Carl Zeiss, with Meixner as the central midfielder, lost to BFC Dynamo 2-0 after extra time .

In the last independent season of the East German premier league football , Meixner was involved with 21 stakes in the fact that FC Carl Zeiss qualified for the 2nd Bundesliga. For the start of its first season in the 2nd Bundesliga , the club had strengthened itself with numerous new players, so that Meixner had no place in the team for a long time. It was only used three times between the 20th and 22nd matchday. He only played once for a full 90 minutes in his last game for FC Carl Zeiss, on December 15, 1991 at SC Freiburg (0-1 defeat).

Within eleven years, Meixner played 238 competitive games (18 goals) for FC Carl Zeiss. These appearances consist of 179 league games (13 goals), three matches in the 2nd Bundesliga and 26 appearances in the national cup (two goals), eight European Cup appearances and 22 IFC matches with three goals.

In the mid-1990s he played under the former Jena Oberliga kicker Uli Göhr , who had coached the club from the Saale city as the winner of the Thuringian League in 1996 up to the fourth division , at SV 1910 Kahla . 1996/97 season it was also thanks to Meixner's class and routine that the league newcomer took a respectable 8th place. In the following year , which brought the Kahla descent with it, he could no longer be used due to injuries and work obligations.

Selection bets

In the summer of 1980 Meixner came into the squad of the GDR junior national team and played in the youth friendship competition in North Korea on July 13, 1980 as a midfielder against the Soviet Union (1: 1) his first junior international match. By 1981 he played a total of 16 games in the U-18s and scored three goals, but could not qualify for the finals of the 1st Junior European Championship in Germany with the team of coach Günter Rosenthal . In the qualifying second leg that was also lost (1: 2 in Anklam after 0: 2 in Radom ) against the Polish juniors , captain Meixner was absent due to knee problems.

In 1981/82 he was also included in the junior national team and played eleven internationals. After that he had a total of 20 international youth matches for the DFV by 1983 .

literature

• German sport echo from January 11, 1982 with portrait.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 322.
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 314.
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .
• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Player Lexicon 1963–1994 . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 , page 334.
• Hanns Leske : The GDR league players. A lexicon . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-392-9 , page 319.

Web links

• Stefan Meixner in the database of the German Football Association
• Stefan Meixner in the database of weltfussball.de
• Stefan Meixner player profile at fcc-supporters.org