Thomas Rath (soccer player)
| Thomas Rath | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| birthday | July 26, 1970 | |
| place of birth | Schwedt / Oder , GDR | |
| position | Attack, midfield | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| -1987 | BSG Chemie PCK Schwedt | |
| 1987-1988 | FC Forward Frankfurt | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1988-1991 | FC Forward Frankfurt | 81 (22) |
| 1991-1992 | Hertha BSC | 28 (5) |
| 1992-1995 | Dynamo Dresden | 75 (6) |
| 1995-1997 | Sc freiburg | 36 (2) |
| 1997-2000 | VfB Leipzig | 3 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1988-1989 | GDR juniors | 4 (2) |
| 1991 | Germany U-21 | 2 (1) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Thomas Rath (born July 26, 1970 in Schwedt / Oder ) is a former German soccer player. He played in both DFV and DFB match operations in the top division and was a DFV and DFB junior national player.
Career as a soccer player
offspring
Rath came in 1987 at the age of 17 from BSG Chemie PCK Schwedt to the junior league team of FC Vorwärts Frankfurt (Oder), the football focus of the GDR Army Sports Association Vorwärts . In the 1987/88 season he was also used in the men's division, he completed seven point games with the second team of FCV in the second-rate GDR league . At the beginning of 1988, Rath was accepted into the squad of the GDR youth national team. After playing two U-18 internationals in 1988, he was part of the GDR squad for the youth soccer world championship in Saudi Arabia in 1989 . The GDR was eliminated after the three preliminary round matches, Rath had been used in two matches as a midfielder and had been able to distinguish himself with two goals. In 1989, Rath was appointed to the GDR's soccer team, with which he played several test matches. Even before the start of the qualifying games for the 1992 Olympics, the team was withdrawn in the course of German reunification .
FC Forward Frankfurt / O.
In the seasons 1988/89 and 1989/90, the first team of FC Vorwärts had to play in the GDR league after relegation from the GDR league. During this time, the 1.90 m tall Rath played for the Frankfurt team as a nominal striker 59 second division games, in which he scored 17 goals. After the FCV had managed to return to the league in 1990, Rath belonged to the player base of FC Vorwärts in the last season of the Oberliga 1990/91, which was restructured into the civilian FC Viktoria from Frankfurt during the season . Rath played the first first division game of his career on the first league game. In the match between FC Vorwärts and Hallescher FC (3: 3) he was used as a left striker and scored his first league goal after just 23 minutes. Of the 26 league games of the season, Rath completed 22 games as a left winger and was Frankfurt's top scorer with five goals. Since FC Viktoria had only reached the third-class Oberliga Nordost in qualifying for the DFB game operations , Rath left Frankfurt in the summer of 1991.
2nd and 1st Bundesliga
For the 1991/92 season he joined the Berlin second division club Hertha BSC . Rath was also part of the starting line-up for the Berlin team from matchday one. Under the ex-Jena coach Bernd Stange , he played 28 of the 32 point games in the 2nd Bundesliga, in which he scored five goals. On October 15, 1991, Rath came again to an international assignment in the U-21 international match Germany - Morocco (2-0). In the 42nd minute he scored the 1-0. After only one season in Berlin, Rath moved to Dynamo Dresden in the 1st Bundesliga for the 1992/93 season . There he stayed for three seasons, mainly as a midfielder completed 75 of 118 played point games and scored six goals.
After the relegation of Dynamo Dresden, Rath moved to SC Freiburg in the summer of 1995 . He was the first professional for whom Freiburg paid a transfer fee of more than one million euros . In the second year he was only a substitute there, because he only played ten matches over the full game and was only in the starting line-up 19 times. He scored one goal in each of the two seasons.
Rath decided his career as a professional footballer in the 1997/98 season with the second division club VfB Leipzig , where he made three short-term appearances between the 1st and 12th matchday. Because of an Achilles tendon rupture at the age of 27, followed by three operations, he became a sports disabled person at the end of 1999 at the age of 29.
Private
Rath lives in Dresden- Niedersedlitz . He is an EU pensioner due to constant back problems .
literature
- Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 .
- Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 .
- Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .
- DSFS: GDR Chronicle , Volume 7, 1984 / 85–1988 / 89
Web links
- Thomas Rath in the database of fussballdaten.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Cornelius de Haas: Worse than in Dresden . In: Saxon newspaper . October 19, 2017 ( online [accessed October 25, 2017]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rath, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwedt / Oder , German Democratic Republic |