Steffen Gerstenberger

Steffen Gerstenberger (born August 27, 1966 ) is a former German soccer player. From 1986 to 1988 he played 18 games for Dynamo Dresden in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football . He is a multiple junior and junior national player of the GDR.

Athletic career

At the age of eleven, Steffen Gerstenberger began his career as a football player at Dynamo Dresden. When the newly founded GDR junior league started for the 1983/84 season, the 17-year-old Gerstenberger was part of the SG Dynamo Dresden squad. In the 1984/85 season he won both the GDR Championship and the GDR Cup with the Dresden Juniors. In the summer of 1984 he was also included in the squad of the GDR junior national team and played his first of 13 international junior matches against the Soviet Union (2-0) on July 20, 1984. He was usually used as a right-back.

When the 2nd team from Dynamo Dresden first competed in the second-rate GDR league in 1985/86 , the 1.77 m tall Gerstenberger was in their squad. He immediately played in the starting line-up and played 30 of the 34 point games. Although he was reported again for the second team for the 1986/87 season, Gerstenberger came to his first eight league games this season. He was in the starting line-up five times as a defender. In 1986 and 1987 he was also part of the GDR junior national team , with which he played nine junior international matches. For the 1987/88 season, Dynamo coach Eduard Geyer Gerstenberger officially appointed defender in the league team, but only used him in ten point games over the course of the season, only three times from the start. In addition, Gerstenberger played the two first round matches in the 1987/88 UEFA Cup against Spartak Moscow (3-0, 1-0). He was left with a regular place in the 2nd team with 19 appearances in 22 point games. In 1988/89 Gerstenberger was again nominated for the league team, but was not used in the point games. Instead, he played mainly in the second division team Dynamo Dresden II, but was only able to complete 15 of the 34 point games played there.

For the 1989/90 season Dynamo Dresden II was dissolved and the player base u. a. with Steffen Gerstenberger transferred to the previous third division club TSG Meißen , who took over the Dresden league site. There Gerstenberger was able to make a name for himself as a regular player again, because of the 34 point games he was able to play 29 matches this time. With 27 stakes in the game, Gerstenberger maintained his level in the 1990/91 season. Since the former leagues of GDR football were integrated into the league system of the German Football Association from the 1991/92 season , TSG Meissen now competed in the third-class football league Northeast . For the 25-year-old Gerstenberger, this meant saying goodbye to higher-class football, to which there was no return.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1983–1991. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 155.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 305.
• DFSF (Ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949–1991 (Volume 7/8). Berlin 2010/11.

Web links

• Steffen Gerstenberger in the database of the German Football Association