Steffen Rietschel

Steffen Rietschel
Personnel
birthday	April 24, 1965
place of birth	Hoyerswerda ,  Germany
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
1970-1982	BSG activist Laubusch
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1983-1984	BSG activist Black Pump
1984-1987	BSG activist Brieske-Senftenberg	at least 15 (1)
1988	BSG Energie Cottbus	20 (4)
1989	BSG activist Brieske-Senftenberg	17 (0)
1989-1991	BSG activist Black Pump	at least 7 (0)
1992	SV activist Laubusch
1992-1998	FSV Glückauf Brieske-Senftenberg
1 Only league games are given.

Steffen Rietschel (born April 24, 1965 in Hoyerswerda ) is a former German soccer player in midfield . He played for BSG Energie Cottbus in the GDR league .

Career

Rietschel played in his youth from 1970 to 1972 for the BSG activist Laubusch . He then went to BSG activist Schwarze Pump for one season before moving to BSG activist Brieske-Senftenberg in 1984 . After promotion to the second-rate DDR-Liga he came in season 1987/88 on 16 August 1987 application, when he in the 5: 1 defeat against the reserve team of BFC Dynamo in the 58th minute for Klaus Narrow came on . He was used regularly until the end of the year. Rietschel scored his first goal on October 4, 1987 in the 81st minute against the second team of FC Vorwärts Frankfurt (Oder) , which also marked the winning goal. In 1988 he was signed at the beginning of the year by league rivals BSG Energie Cottbus, for which he completed 15 games in which he scored three goals. At the end of the season the promotion to the league was certain. There Rietschel made his debut on October 12, 1988 when he was substituted on for Jens Melzig in the 67th minute on the 8th matchday . Cottbus lost the game against Dynamo Dresden 5-1. On the following day he scored his first and only top division goal in a 3-0 win against BSG Stahl Brandenburg . Only three more games followed by the end of the year. Then Rietschel moved back to the BSG activist Brieske-Senftenberg, where he was part of the permanent staff with 17 games. In the summer he went on to the BSG activist Schwarze Pump, for which he appeared seven times in the GDR league in 1989/1990. After the reunification, Rietschel played briefly with SV activist Laubusch and then from 1992 to 1998 with FSV Glückauf Brieske-Senftenberg. He then worked as an assistant coach and later as a coach at the club.

Web links

• Steffen Rietschel in the database of weltfussball.de
• Steffen Rietschel on the FC Energie museum website