Thomas Dennstedt
| Thomas Dennstedt | ||
 Thomas Dennstedt as GDR
U-21 national player (1980) |
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| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| birthday | January 12, 1959 | |
| place of birth | Leipzig , GDR | |
| size | 182 cm | |
| position | Defender | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| ASG forward Leipzig | ||
| 1969-1977 | 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1977-1985 | 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig | 141 (33) |
| 1985-1986 | ASG forward Storkow | |
| 1986-1987 | BSG Stahl Riesa | 15 (0) |
| 1987-1988 | TSG Markkleeberg | 10 (1) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1975-1977 | GDR U-18 | 35 (1) |
| 1978-1981 | DDR U-21 | 21 (3) |
| 1980 | GDR (B) | 1 (0) |
| 1982-1983 | DDR Olympia | 9 (2) |
| 1983 | GDR (A) | 1 (0) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Thomas Dennstedt (born January 12, 1959 in Leipzig ) is a former German soccer player. In the top division of GDR football , the Oberliga , he played for 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig and BSG Stahl Riesa . In his only international match for the GDR national team , the Leipzig defender was on the field for 67 minutes.
Athletic career
Before Dennstedt came to 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig in 1969, he had already played football in the children's team of the Vorwärts Leipzig army sports community . In the last season of the junior league before its dissolution, which lasted until 1983, Dennstedt won the GDR championship title alongside Matthias Liebers , Andreas Treske and René Müller in spring 1976 .
As a junior player for 1. FC Lok, Dennstedt was part of the junior national team between 1975 and 1977 , in which he was at the top of his class with 35 international matches. For the UEFA youth tournament, the unofficial European championship in the U-18 area, the GDR could not qualify while Dennstedt was part of the youth team. At the youth competitions of friendship in North Korea , the Leipziger took 5th place with the East German U-18 in the summer of 1975. In 1976, at the tournament of the state socialist countries in Bulgaria , in which Dennstedt ran up again in central defense, only the 8th place.
From May 1978 to October 1981 he made 21 international matches in the youth team . With the DFV representative, at that time looked after by Bernd Stange , the locomotive player became vice European champion in 1980 in the U-21 European Championship after the two finals against the USSR (0: 0, 0: 1).
Dennstedt had his first assignment in the league team of 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig at the age of 18. On the 26th matchday of the 1976/77 season, May 21, 1977, he was used in the game FC Carl Zeiss Jena - 1. FC Lok (1-0) over 90 minutes as a central defender. In the summer of 1977 he was still listed as a student in the official roster of 1. FC Lok. After graduating from high school, the 1.82 meter tall and 79 kilogram heavy footballer started an apprenticeship as a motor vehicle mechanic, which the Leipzig native completed in 1980.
After Dennstedt was a central defensive player in the Leipzig squad from 1977 and only missed one league game in the 1980/81, 1981/82 and 1982/83 seasons, the DFV coaches took him into account when rebuilding the GDR Olympic team and in 1983 the defender came in two of the four qualifying games of the GDR Olympic team that were played up to his knee injury . The Olympic boycott under the leadership of the Soviet Union, however, prevented East German footballers from participating in the 1984 Olympic football tournament in Los Angeles, which was already a long way off for him personally due to his health situation.
Before that, however, the Lok team captain got the chance to prove himself in the senior national team due to "excellent form" at the beginning of the 1983/84 season. In the game against Romania on August 24, 1983 in Bucharest, he was in the starting eleven on his regular position in the central defense. After 67 minutes he was substituted for his Leipzig teammate Matthias Liebers . The locomotive stopper and Frank Pastor , who is also making his debut, were certified in the trade journal fuwo as having "lack of effectiveness among the newcomers" . There were no further appearances in the senior national team following this premiere.
Handicapped by a severe cruciate ligament injury, which Dennstedt suffered on October 22, 1983 in a match against SG Dynamo Dresden in a duel with the then 17-year-old Ulf Kirsten and which resulted in an operation by the Lok team doctor Theo Barth in the Leipzig University Clinic , did he only return to the Leipzig league team on the last two match days for two appearances, each lasting just a few minutes. In the course of the 1984/85 season, in which he was used twice in the league for a total of 35 minutes and once in the UEFA Cup against Spartak Moscow in October 1984 , Dennstedt had to interrupt his career for the time being. At this point in time, there were 141 league point games and 19 European Cup games in his performance record for 1. FC Lok.
By winning the GDR soccer cup in 1981, he celebrated his only title win. After he had finished his engineering studies, he was drafted into the army in the spring of 1985 and played for one and a half years with the lower-class army sports community Vorwärts in Storkow , southeast of Berlin. Discharged from the army, Dennstedt joined the upper division Stahl Riesa in autumn 1986. There he played from November 1986 in 15 league appearances first Libero, later Vorstopper. He played his last league game on June 6, 1987, the last day of the season, against his former club 1. FC Lok Leipzig. In front of his own backdrop, he was used as a left defender at 1-1.
In the summer of 1987 he moved to second division side TSG Markkleeberg , for which he 1987/88 in the League completed ten games. In the summer of 1988 he was still part of the Markkleeberger league squad. Dennstedt was no longer used in the East German lower house for TSG.
Further career
After 1990 Thomas Dennstedt worked in the financial sector.
literature
- Deutsches Sportecho , July 12, 1978, short biography.
- Andreas Baingo , Michael Hohlfeld: Soccer selection player of the GDR. The lexicon . Sportverlag Berlin , Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00875-6 , page 31/32.
- Andreas Baingo , Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 .
- Michael Horn, Gottfried Weise : The great lexicon of GDR football . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-536-8 , page 75.
- Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 .
- Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .
- Hanns Leske : The GDR league players. A lexicon . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-392-9 , page 75.
Web links
- Thomas Dennstedt in the database of the German Football Association
- Thomas Dennstedt in the database of weltfussball.de
- Thomas Dennstedt in the database of transfermarkt.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Matthias Arnhold: Thomas Dennstedt - Matches and Goals in Oberliga . RSSSF.com . April 2, 2020. Accessed April 3, 2020.
- ↑ a b Dennstedt is operating - failures at 1. FCL cause concern. In: fuwo - The new football week . Nov 1, 1983, p. 16.
- ↑ Dieter Buchspieß: No breeding ground for debutants. In: fuwo - The new football week . Aug. 30, 1983, p. 9.
- ^ Matthias Arnhold: Thomas Dennstedt - International Appearances . RSSSF.com . April 2, 2020. Accessed April 3, 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dennstedt, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |