Thomas Strecker

Thomas Strecker
Thomas Strecker (middle / 1989)
Personnel
birthday	7th April 1971  (age 49)
place of birth	East Berlin ,  GDR
position	midfield player
Juniors
Years	station
1977-1983	SSG 8. OS Lichtenberg
1983-1987	1. FC Union Berlin
1987-1989	BFC Dynamo
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1988-1989	BFC Dynamo II	7 0(0)
1989-1990	BFC Dynamo / FC Berlin	20 0(0)
1991	FSV locomotive Altmark Stendal	2 0(0)
1991-1998	1. SC Norderstedt	at least 157 (15)
1999–0000	TuS Holstein Quickborn 1914	at least 14 0(2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1987	DDR U-16	7 (0)
1988	GDR U-18	3 (0)
1988-1989	DDR U-20	6 (1)
1989-1990	DDR Olympia	7 (2)
1 Only league games are given.

Thomas Strecker (born April 7, 1971 in East Berlin ) is a former German soccer player. For the Berlin FC Dynamo he played in the top division of the GDR , the GDR Oberliga . Strecker is several young national players of the GDR.

Athletic career

Club career

Strecker came to 1. FC Union Berlin in 1983 through the school sports community of the 8th Oberschule in Berlin-Lichtenberg , where he played until 1987. After he had fought for a squad place in the youth selection team of the DFV , Strecker moved within his hometown to BFC Dynamo, the footballing figurehead of the Dynamo sports association alongside SG Dynamo Dresden , and in its nationwide successful youth department.

Already in the 1988/89 season - when Strecker was still nominated for the BFC junior league team , with which he was runner-up - he played his first games in the GDR league. He played there for the first time on May 3, 1989, when he was called up as a midfielder in the encounter on the 19th game day of the season in the game BFC against Dynamo Dresden (1: 1). By the end of the season, Strecker had made four appearances in the first division. Despite his promising junior career, he did not succeed in the following two seasons to gain a regular place in the league team.

In his eleven appearances in the 1989/90 season , he was only six times in the starting eleven , he only played two games over 90 minutes. Strecker was not involved in the 1989 cup final (1-0 over FC Karl-Marx-Stadt). In his only European game on November 1, 1989 against AS Monaco (1-1), he only played the last 24 minutes of extra time. In 1990/91 , Strecker only played five times in the major league for Berlin.

In the further course of the 1990/91 season Strecker played 2 games for FSV Lok Altmark Stendal in the second highest East German division. From summer 1991 he was with 1. SC Norderstedt , where his former BFC teammate Thomas Grabow was one of the teammates from 1995 , in the Oberliga Nord and Regionalliga Nord .

During the 1998/99 season, Strecker joined the TuS Holstein Quickborn in 1914, with whom he was promoted to the fifth-class Hamburg Association in 2001 . In the 2002/03 season, Strecker also helped SV Rugenbergen to move up to the Hamburg Association League. He then ended his career as a football player for professional reasons.

Selection bets

After he had become U-16 national player in the 1. FC Union jersey and took part in the 1987 European Championship in France with this team , he also remained in the notebooks of the association coach at BFC. By the spring of 1989, he completed further international matches in the various selection teams of the GDR.

With the U-18 selection he was in the Czech Republic in 1988 third in the U-18 European Championship . The GDR trade journal fuwo commented positively on his only appearance in the finals: “When he played in the small final, I immediately got along very well with the team. Decided many duels for himself, enlivened our actions with his running strength and his understanding of the game. ”In 1989 he played all three group games in the preliminary round of the GDR U-20s at the U-20 World Cup in Saudi Arabia .

In the further course of the turning point in 1989 , Strecker was appointed to the Olympic selection, with which he played several test matches against other national teams and clubs. Even before the start of the qualifying games for the 1992 Olympics , which were linked to the U-21 European Championship , the team was withdrawn in the course of German reunification . In all of his selection games Strecker had been used as a midfielder.

literature

• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 .
• 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 512.

Web links

• Thomas Strecker in the database of weltfussball.de
• Thomas Strecker in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Thomas Strecker in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Thomas Strecker in the database of the German Football Association
• Thomas Strecker in the FuPa.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Manfred Binkowski: Jähnig, who is experienced in the final round, was our trump card at the tournament. In: fuwo - The new football week . Aug 2, 1988, p. 4.