Marco Köller

Marco Koller ( born June 25, 1969) is a former German football player. The late 1980s was defender Koeller as one of the greatest talents of the GDR football, but could after the fall because of health and personal difficulties no longer build on the previous successes, but ended after a few games in the 2nd Bundesliga in 1990 his professional career.

Career

Koller joined in 1981 by the BSG Turbine Berlin in youth development of the GDR 's most successful BFC Dynamo. Because of its good services, he was appointed in 1986 in the selection of the GDR for the U -18 Championship, which could decide the GDR selection of Matthias Sammer for themselves. For the daily Junge Welt Koller was the "discovery of the finals ." As a reward for his services he was appointed the very next match day in the premier league team of the BFC Dynamo, until the autumn of 1989, he was a total of 67 times for the club in the league to play (two goals). In 1987 he was with the East German select third parties at the U- 20 World Cup. The " Young World " told him ahead after " a really big " to be.

With the series champion and trophy winner BFC he played in the European Cup (8 games, no goals ) against some of the big European clubs and knows to prevail. Koller was even counted the expanded group of senior team, but it could already be the reasons for his subsequent failure: he fell on due to high alcohol consumption, low discipline and little training diligence, why him the coach of BFC Dynamo for some games in 2nd team banished. There were also first chronic injury problems (pain in the feet).

In the fall of 1989, he fled before the fall of the Wall in the West, where he received a contract with the second division MSV Duisburg for the season 1990/91. After three games he fell out because of an injury for six weeks and after another four games his foot injury finally broke through again. Koller tried the frustration with alcohol and gambling to drown and was due to the high losses soon broke. After an uproar at the Duisburg Christmas 1990 - he hit the Managing Director of Meidericher, Dirk Keiper, under the influence of alcohol down - he left in early 1991 Duisburg to Berlin, ending his career as a footballer performance. As a result, he was sentenced to probation for alcohol related offenses on the road and worked in construction.

The mid-1990s he played for SV Construction Union Berlin in the Berlin district leagues B and A, the end of 1996 this was also over.

Achievements

• GDR Champion: 1987, 1988
• DDR - runner: 1989
• Fdgb Cup winners: 1988, 1989
• U-18 European Championship: 1986

Swell

• "Football - Chef at Café Opera ," The mirror 1996, Issue 52, page 130f.
• Games in the Archive website RSSSF.com (Total) and (BFC Dynamo ).