International soccer match Belgium - GDR 1990
The international soccer match between Belgium and the GDR in 1990 was played on September 12, 1990 as a friendly between the national teams from Belgium and the GDR in the Constant Vanden Stock Stadium in Brussels . It ended 0-2, with the GDR team playing an international match for the last time. Both goals were scored by the captain and later all-German national player Matthias Sammer .
prehistory
The encounter was originally intended as a qualifying game for the 1992 European Championship , in which the GDR would have been in Group 5 with the Federal Republic and played against them in the first leg on November 21, 1990. But since the German reunification took place faster than expected, the German Football Association (DFV) announced its team from the qualification. This first, already scheduled “group game” was nevertheless played as a friendly game in order to avert claims for damages from the Belgian Football Association.
The coach of the GDR team was Eduard Geyer , who invited a total of 36 players, but 22 of them canceled, so that his team only consisted of 14 players. They all came to a mission at the encounter. Geyer had originally hoped to be able to compete with at least 16 players; Matthias Sammer ( VfB Stuttgart ) was the only one from the Bundesliga .
The game
In the national anthems , all three stanzas of the GDR anthem Risen from the ruins were played. Before that, their text had not been sung for a long time because of the words "Germany united fatherland" (1st verse).
The players from the GDR were able to harass the favorites and determine the course of the game. Jens Adler ( Hallescher FC Chemie ) went down in history as the last GDR selection player when he came on as a substitute goalkeeper in the 90th minute for Jens Schmidt ( Chemnitzer FC ).
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Michel Preud'homme - Bruno Versavel (68th Danny Boffin ), Pascal Plovie , Michel de Wolf , Nico Broeckaert - Franky van der Elst , Lorenzo Staelens , Enzo Scifo (46th Philippe Albert ), Stéphane Demol (46th Marc Wilmots ) - Jan Ceulemans (46th Marc Degryse ), Erwin Vandenbergh Trainer: Guy Thys |
Jens Schmidt (90th Jens Adler ) - Heiko Peschke , Detlef Schößler , Jörg Schwanke , Andreas Wagenhaus - Heiko Bonan , Matthias Sammer - Jörg Stübner (26th Stefan Böger ), Dariusz Wosz - Uwe Rösler , Heiko Scholz (85th Torsten Kracht ) Trainer: Eduard Geyer |
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 0: 1 Sammer (74th) 0: 2 Sammer (89th)
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Further course
The friendly match between the national teams of the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany, which was planned for November 21, 1990 as a so-called “unification match ” in the central stadium in Leipzig , was canceled on November 13 due to feared crowd riots. A threat situation arose as a result of the death of 18-year-old BFC fan Mike Polley , who was shot dead by a police officer on November 3rd under unknown circumstances. So the encounter with Belgium remained the final international match and there was no further German-German duel after the 1974 World Cup preliminary round .
On November 20, 1990, the DFV dissolved and the Northeast German Football Regional Association (NOFV) was founded, which joined the German Football Association (DFB) . The first international match with players who had previously played for DFV (Matthias Sammer and Andreas Thom ) took place in the Neckar Stadium in Stuttgart on December 19 . The match ended with a 4-0 win against Switzerland .
Historical classification
It was the 293rd and last international match of the German Democratic Republic , which three weeks later became part of the Federal Republic of Germany . Matthias Sammer, the captain of the GDR team, scored the last two goals for the GDR. It was the 500th and 501st goal of the national team. Sammer played again on May 1, 1991 with the all-German team in the European Championship qualification against Belgium (final score 1-0, goal by Lothar Matthäus ).
See also
- List of international matches for the Belgian national football team
- List of international matches of the GDR national soccer team
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The last game of the selection: 2-0 against hosts Belgium , in: fuwo Extra - A special edition of the football week , Sportverlag GmbH Berlin , 1991, p. 16
- ↑ "GDR" selection turns the tide: the association game goes to the selection for Kirsten, Doll & Co. kicker-Sportmagazin , November 20, 2010, accessed on October 31, 2014 .
- ↑ a b c stoppage time: the last time , kicker-Sportmagazin # 76/2014, Olympia-Verlag Nürnberg , September 15, 2014, pp. 98 and 99
- ↑ GDR anthem again with text. In: Freie Presse , January 6, 1990.
- ↑ Sven Goldmann: With a delay of 20 years: DDR-Elf competes against BRD selection. Sports. Der Tagesspiegel , November 10, 2010, accessed on October 31, 2014 .
- ↑ a b 25 Years Fall of the Wall: The Dramatic Development of the Eastern Clubs , kicker-Sportmagazin # 90/2014 , Olympia-Verlag Nürnberg , November 3, 2014, pp. 86–95
- ↑ radicalization of the fans. In: Spiegel Online . August 1, 2007, accessed October 31, 2014 .