Thomas Kluge (soccer player)

Thomas Kluge (born June 16, 1966 ) was a soccer player from 1988 to 1991 in the GDR Oberliga, from 1991 to 1998 in the 2nd Bundesliga .

Soccer career

Thomas Kluge's extensive football career began in the small district town of Schönebeck (Elbe) , where he played for the company sports club Motor until he was 22 , most recently in the second-rate GDR league . In the summer of 1988 he moved to the nearby district capital for 1. FC Magdeburg . There, the 1.90 m tall trained car mechanic was integrated as a midfielder in the league squad. After he had already been used in the Intertoto competition in June , he was also used as a central defender in the first league point game of the 1988/89 season and played a total of 15 point games with the Magdeburg league team by the end of the season. Nevertheless, Kluge left the FCM and signed up for the 1989/90 season with the league promoted steel Eisenhüttenstadt .

In Eisenhüttenstadt, Kluge was a regular player in the defense from the start and was only missing in two of the 26 point games. So he was decisively responsible for securing relegation. Even before the end of the 1989/90 season, the company sports association Stahl had been transformed into Eisenhüttenstädter FC Stahl in May 1990 as part of the reorganization of East German sports as a result of German reunification. The new club took up the fight for places in the 1st or 2nd Bundesliga of the DFB in the newly founded NOFV-Oberliga . Kluge was again one of the most valuable players in the Eisenhüttenstadt team with 25 stakes, but they failed to qualify for professional football with 9th place at the end of the season. After all, they made it to the final final of the GDR soccer cup , but lost 1-0 to Hansa Rostock with Kluge as the central defender.

In the Supercup semi-final game EFC - Werder Bremen (0: 1) Kluge already did not take part, because he had meanwhile received a contract with the second division club Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin . With the Berliners Kluge played all 32 point games in the 1991/92 season, but since Blau-Weiß did not receive a license for the following season, he moved to FC 08 Homburg in the summer of 1992 , who also played in the 2nd Bundesliga. Kluge stayed here for three years and played 68 of the Saarlander's 118 point games. In the 1994/95 season he was no longer the first choice with eleven missions, so he ended his contract and made another move, this time to the north German second division club SV Meppen . In his first Meppen season in 1995/96 he was used in 25 of the 34 point games. In the following two years he was only called up in eight second division games, and so ended his career as a competitive athlete after the 1997/98 season.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1988–1990. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 259.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pp. 309, 332.

Web links

• Thomas Kluge in the database of the German Football Association
• Thomas Kluge at www.fussballdaten.de