Udo Prussia

Udo Prussian (* 19th April 1945 in Niedersachswerfen ) was football player in the highest GDR football class league , where he for the SC turbine / FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt and FC Carl Zeiss Jena played. In Jena, Prussia won the GDR football championship in 1968 and 1970. He played a game in the GDR national soccer team .

Athletic career

Prussia began his footballing career at the age of nine with the company sports club Chemie in his home town of Lower Saxony near the then district town of Nordhausen . After finishing school, he completed an apprenticeship as a motor vehicle mechanic. In 1962 and 1963 he played five times in the GDR junior national team. From 1963 to 1966 he played in the men's team of the region’s sports center, the SC Turbine Erfurt division . With the juniors of the SC Turbine he won the GDR junior cup in 1963. Already at the age of 18 he was used in the league games of the Erfurt team, but immediately after his first season in the men's division, Prussia was relegated with the SC Turbine from the league. Although the immediate rise was successful, but relegation could not be secured again, the FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt, separated from the soccer section of the SC Turbine, was relegated for the second time since Prussia's participation.

The 1.75 m tall standard left-back then moved to the Thuringian top club FC Carl Zeiss Jena in the summer of 1966 with the recommendation of 45 Erfurt league games . The 1968/69 season was very successful for Prussia at FC Carl Zeiss. The team became superior football champions with a five-point lead, and Prussia was involved with 17 point games and one goal. On May 22, 1968, the Jeanaer reached the final of the GDR soccer cup with a 2-1 victory over 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig . On June 9, 1968, Prussia was in the final team, but FC Carl Zeiss surprisingly lost 2-1 to 1. FC Union Berlin .

In the first years of Jena, Preuße trained under Georg Buschner . In 1970 he also coached the GDR national team and made it a habit to incorporate numerous players from his club there. This also benefited Prussia, who had already played six other selection games in the junior national team between 1965 and 1967. He came on on July 27, 1970 in the international match GDR - Iraq (5-0) in the 47th minute for Bernd Bransch from Halle . However, there were no more A-international appointments.

The season 1969/70 ended the FC Carl Zeiss again as GDR champions. This time, Prussia had a major share in the success, he had played 23 of the 26 point games and even scored five goals as a defender. In 1970 he began studying to become an engineer for measurement and control technology. During a preparatory game for the second half of the 1971/72 season against Motor Steinach, Prussia suffered a broken tibia and fibula. He never really recovered from this injury and was only used in the 2nd team until the end of the season. After 141 competitive games, in particular 96 league games, 18 national and 27 international cup games, Prussia left FC Carl Zeiss at the end of the 1971/72 season at the age of 27 and joined the second-rate GDR league team Motor Hermsdorf , where he finally played his football Career ended.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 370.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 311.

Web links

• Udo Preuße in the database of the German Football Association