Uwe Amstein

Uwe Amstein
Personnel
Surname	Uwe Amstein
birthday	20th August 1967
place of birth	Meiningen ,  GDR
Juniors
Years	station
1976-1981	BSG locomotive Meiningen
1981-1985	FC Carl Zeiss Jena
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1985-1988	FC Carl Zeiss Jena II	44 (0)
1987	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	4 (0)
1988	BSG Progress Weida	11 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1984	DDR U-16	4 (0)
1985-1986	GDR U-18	15 (0)
1986	DDR U-19	2 (0)
1987	DDR U-20	2 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Uwe Amstein (born August 20, 1967 in Meiningen ) is a former German football player in the GDR Football Association (DFV) . For FC Carl Zeiss Jena he played briefly in the GDR Oberliga , the highest DFV division. Amstein is a multiple junior national player of the GDR .

Athletic career

Amstein's initially promising football career began in 1976 with a company sports club (BSG) of the Deutsche Reichsbahn , the BSG Lokomotive Meiningen , under the trainers Norbert Cantow and Karl Mahler. At the age of 14 he was delegated to the Thuringian football stronghold, FC Carl Zeiss Jena, in 1981 . There he was accepted into the junior league team by coach Peter Grumm for the 1984/85 season .

After he had already completed four international matches for the U-16s of the DFV , Uwe Amstein was nominated for the first time in the junior division by selection coach Eberhard Vogel for an international tournament with the GDR U-17s in Hungary in the summer of 1984 . From 1985 belonged to the squad of the GDR U-18 selection . On July 13, 1985 he played in the youth competition of friendship in Bulgaria against North Korea (7: 1) as a right defender his first game in the older junior selection , which finished 3rd in this tournament. His total of 19 international matches in the U-18 to U-20 national teams also included the quarter and semi-finals at the 1986 European Junior Championships , which the GDR won with their U-19s , and a game at the 1987 Junior World Cup , in which the GDR reached 3rd place with its U-20 selection . At the end of 1986 Amstein was voted GDR Sportsman of the Year in the team category with the European junior selection.

Amstein completed his first two point games in the men's division in the 1985/86 season with the second team of FC Carl Zeiss in the second-class league . For the 1986/87 season he was officially registered as a defender for FC Carl Zeiss II and played 28 of the 34 point games. In 1987/88 Amstein was again scheduled as a player for the 2nd team and played nine point games for them in the first series - eight of them on the first eight match days up to the beginning of the Junior World Cup in Chile.

In addition, he was briefly used in the 1st team of Jena in the 1st half series. For this he played his first game after his return from the tournament in South America on October 31, 1987 in the cup game of the 2nd round at BSG Motor Weimar . In the 3-1 win, which the Oberligaelf only ensured in extra time, Amstein came on for Mathias Pittelkow in the 65th minute . This was followed in November and December 1987 four missions in the GDR league from the 10th to the 13th game day as well as participation in the round of 16 of the cup competition against SG Dynamo Dresden II (2-1). Defenders came in all six games for the FCC first representative, which came together from the end of October to mid-December in a period of just six weeks, including a secondment to the FCC II league team on November 14, 1987, when the league paused before an international match Amstein to no goal.

After these appearances in the Oberligaelf at the end of 1987, Amstein initially went back to the 2nd team with five more league appearances, but was "delegated" to the Jena Club at the end of March 1988 and - together with Sven Baum - given to the GDR league team BSG Progress Weida . There he played from April 1 (debut in 0: 1 against BSG Chemie Leipzig ) until the end of the season in May 1988, when BSG Progress - incidentally, parallel to the FCC reserve - had to relegate to the district league, eleven goalless point games for the East Thuringians. Subsequently, Amstein no longer played in higher-class football.

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 .
• Karlheinz Latussek (arr.): GDR chronicle. Volume 7, 1984 / 85-1988 / 89 . German Sports Club for Football Statistics (DSFS).
• Hanns Leske: The GDR league players. A lexicon. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-392-9 , p. 14.

Web links

• Uwe Amstein in the database of weltfussball.de
• Uwe Amstein in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Uwe Amstein in the database of the German Football Association
• Uwe Amstein at fcc-supporters.org

Individual references / footnotes

1. ↑ Manfred Binkowski: Teamwork with excellent individualists. In: fuwo - The new football week . Oct 21, 1986, p. 9.
2. ↑ Manfred Binkowski: The oldest make the start. In: fuwo - The new football week . Jul 17, 1984, p. 10.
3. ↑ Description in GDR football when a player was removed from a team that was funded by sport policy and transferred to a team that was not worthy of funding.