Steffen Zipfel

Steffen Zipfel
Personnel
birthday	January 13, 1965
place of birth	Reichenbach in Vogtland ,  GDR
size	187 cm
position	midfield player
Juniors
Years	station
0000-1983	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1983-1986	BSG engine "Fritz Heckert" Karl-Marx-Stadt	37 0(1)
1986-1987	BSG Wismut Gera	25 0(3)
1987-1990	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	29 0(3)
1989-1995	BSG / FSV Wismut Gera / 1st SV Gera	at least 141 (16)
1 Only league games are given.

Steffen Zipfel (born January 13, 1965 in Reichenbach im Vogtland ) is a former German soccer player.

Athletic career

In his first game in the top division of GDR football , Steffen Zipfel secured a point for FC Carl Zeiss Jena in the away game at 1. FC Magdeburg with his goal . On matchday 10 of the 1987/88 season , the 22-year-old midfielder brought the FCC into the lead after 16 minutes in a 1-1 draw in Magdeburg - before Markus Wuckel equalized twelve minutes later to the final score. In an interview with the trade journal fuwo, he soberly describes his first goal after a corner kick by Jörg Burow : “ I hit the ball that Peschke extended into the back area with my head into the goal. It is astonishing that there was no opponent to be seen far and wide. "

In his first season for FC Carl Zeiss, coach Lothar Kurbjuweit's team reached the final of the FDGB Cup in addition to rank 6 . Newcomer Zipfel was not used in the final, lost 2-0 against BFC Dynamo in the Berlin Stadium of World Youth .

This season 1987/88 had started Zipfel in the second-class league at BSG Wismut Gera . Not least three goals in four league matches in September and October 1987, the native Reichenbacher made the focus of Club of the district Gera in west of Gera located Jena attracted attention.

With the BFC Dynamo double in 1988, FC Carl Zeiss was able to compete in the European Cup as a defeated cup finalist . In the European Cup Winners' Cup of the 1988/89 season , Steffen Zipfel was able to enjoy international flair on the lawn of the Ernst Abbe sports field in the home games against SC Sparkasse Krems (5: 0) and Sampdoria Genua (1: 1) .

In the turning point 1989/90 , Zipfel benefited from a new regulation that enabled a constant change between a league club and a league community: In autumn 1989 he was used eight times in the league for the FCC and five times in the league for the Wismut-Elf.

In the last independent season of East German second division football , the midfielder was one of the regulars at BSG Motor "Fritz Heckert" Karl-Marx-Stadt in the mid- 1980s and previously GDR junior champion in 1983 with FC Karl-Marx-Stadt had become a permanent member of the Gera Bismut football team. In season B, he scored six goals in 28 point games. From the inaugural season 1991/92 of the amateur league in the NOFV area , he kept the club, which traded as 1. SV Gera from 1993 and entered the fourth-class league from 1994 , until at least 1995 the loyalty.

literature

• Hanns Leske : The GDR league players. A lexicon . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-392-9 , page 605.
• Andreas Baingo , Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 322.

Web links

• Steffen Zipfel in the weltfussball.de database
• Steffen Zipfel in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Steffen Zipfel in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Steffen Zipfel in the database of the German Football Association
• Player profile at fcc-supporters.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dieter Buchspieß: Interview with: Steffen Zipfel (FC Carl Zeiss Jena / 22, first league debut and goalscorer at 1. FCM). In: fuwo - The new football week . Nov 10, 1987, p. 7.