Frank Lippmann
Frank Lippmann ( born April 23, 1961 in Dresden ) is a retired German football player from the GDR. After his escape in 1986 he also played in the German Bundesliga, as well as in Austria and Switzerland. With Dynamo Dresden, he twice won the East German soccer cup. After his playing career, he was a football coach.
DDR - Oberliga player
Lippman grew up in the Dresden district Zschachwitz and played there until 1979 at TSG Blau-Weiß, most recently with the men's team in the fourth division district class. At the beginning of the 1979/80 season Lippmann has been delegated to the DDR - Oberliga side Dynamo Dresden. There he was first nominated for the junior league. But already this season he came to his first race in the men's league. On 12 April 1980 the 21st match day, he was in the encounter Dynamo Dresden - substitute bismuth Aue (4-2 ) for seven minutes. In the season 1980/81 of 1.73 m wide attacking player has been nominated for the first team and played for them beginning of the season at different positions in the attacking formation. In his first league season, he came on 18 point stakes, but without scoring. In this season, his only choice game he played with the East German junior national team fell. In the season 1981/82 he could not prevail against the parade storm Schülbe, Minge, Döschner and came only seven league games, most of which were only short-term assignments. In the two following seasons Lippmann remained only the role of the substitute score, but was on 26 May 1984 as a left winger for the Dynamo team that won the East German Football Cup with a 2-1 victory over the Berliner FC Dynamo. 1984/85 he achieved his breakthrough to regular players, in 24 of 26 games, he was discharged point further in the Oberligaelf, usually as a left winger. In this position, he was also involved on 8 June 1985 at the Cup defense, this time the Dresden won 3-2 again about the BFC Dynamo.
Escape to the West
The 1985/86 season continued Lippmann continued as a regular player. Until the 16th Matchday he had completed 14 games as a left winger. At this time, Dynamo Dresden had reached the quarter-finals in the European Cup Winners' Cup and created with a 2-0 home win over Bayer Uerdingen a good starting position for the semi-finals. This was zunichtegemacht on March 19, 1986 with a 3:7 defeat. It was Lippmann's 14th European Cup match, and the time between the lead 2-1 for Dresden, he scored his sixth goal in the European Cup, one of which he scored only five in the competition. After the game Lippmann left the team and sat down to relatives in Nuremberg, where he told a press conference, not wanting to return to the GDR again. Contrary to earlier practice, were hushed as volatile GDR athletes, announced the GDR news agency ADN: " The player Frank Lippmann has betrayed his comrades for a large sum of money, which offered him sport hostile circles. " (According to Munzinger archive 19/1986 28 April 1986 ). Lippmann left the GDR in his family and his fiancée with a three month old child. Family and fiancé were heavily constrained by the GDR State Security Service to move Lippmann to return, but did not succeed. Rather succeeded Lippmann, herauszuschleusen bride along with child by a helper escape from the GDR via Hungary.
Professional football player in the West
Immediately after his arrival in Nuremberg Lippmann had contacted the President of the 1st FC Nuremberg and received a professional contract until the end of season 1986 / 87th First, the European soccer body UEFA imposed a one-year lock, and Lippmann retired in training a torn ACL to. He only came on Matchday 22 of the 1986/87 season for the 1st FC Nuremberg in the Bundesliga for use. By the end of the season, he completed a total of five league games. His contract was not renewed, and Lippmann signed a new two year contract with the Bundesliga club from Waldhof Mannheim. In Mannheim he only played in the 1987/88 season in the Bundesliga and came mainly used only in the second half, on 16 appearances. As a 28- year-old to Lippmann was the 1989/90 season committed by the Austrian Erstligaabsteiger LASK Linz. Even during the current season, he emigrated from the Austrian first division club Vorwärts Steyr and eventually finished the season in the second division FC train in Switzerland.
Return to Saxony
In the summer of 1990, a few months after the political change in the GDR, to Lippmann was down again in Dresden. There he joined the re-founded Dresdner SC, with which he ascended in 1991 fourth-rate in the national league and 1992 in the amateur league. After completion of the 1992/93 season, in which he drew upon an ankle and tibia fracture, Lippmann ended his career as a football player.
Coach
After his playing career, he became a youth coach at DSC, 1995, he returned after nine years back to Dynamo Dresden, where he was also active as a youth coach and as an honorary coach of the DFB. After a surprising leave at Dynamo on April 9, 2008 and a brief stint with the bishop FV 08, he took over as coach in 2009 the Saxon district class SV Pirna -South, which he led in the siebentklassige District League in 2010.