Uwe Grüning (soccer player)

Uwe Grüning (born October 8, 1956 in Gommern ) was a football player in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of the GDR football association, and played there for 1. FC Magdeburg . He is 41 times young national player.

Life

Grüning began his football career in 1966 in the local BSG activist Gommern . In 1970 the company sports association delegated him to 1. FC Magdeburg, the region’s main football club. There he played in the first in the youth and in the junior team. As a junior player, he played 35 games with the GDR junior national team from 1972 to 1975, and then played six more times in the youth team. Shortly before his 18th birthday, on September 7, 1974, he made his debut in the GDR league in the encounter between Hansa Rostock and 1. FCM (2: 3). He came on in the 62nd minute for striker Heinz Oelze . By the end of the 1974/75 season, Grüning played three more league games. In the following season he was able to increase his first division appearances to eight games, but in the next two seasons it was only enough for two league games. At the end of the 1977/78 season he was released from the league squad and downgraded to the junior league at the age of 21. Also for 1979/80 he was nominated again for the youth team of the FCM, but also came again with three appearances in the upper league, in which he also scored his only first division goal.

After a total of 19 league games, five appearances in the GDR soccer cup and the game in the European Cup Winners' Cup 1. FCM - Arsenal London on November 7, 1979 (2: 2), in which he scored only one goal as a nominal striker (Oberliga) Grüning won 1. FC Magdeburg and in the summer of 1980 moved to the company sports community Motor in the neighboring town of Schönebeck (Elbe) . There he played in the third-rate district league Magdeburg . When the Schönebeckers rose to the GDR league in 1982, Grüning was no longer listed in the BSG Motor squad for the 1982/83 season. Even later, he no longer appeared in higher-class football.

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For the first version of the article, the German Sportecho born 1974 to 1985 was used.