Torsten Gütschow
Torsten Gütschow 1990
Torsten Gütschow ( born July 28, 1962 in Görlitz ) is a former German football player and current football coach.
Career as a player
Dynamo Dresden
Gütschow grew up in the 800 inhabitants municipality Zodel at the German -Polish border to near the county town of Görlitz. In agricultural Sports Association (SPA ) Tractor Zodel he began in 1968 his career as a football player. In 1973, the police sports club Dynamo Görlitz, which delegated him as 14 -year-olds to Dynamo Dresden, next to the Berliner FC Dynamo giants of the East German security forces. In Dresden Gütschow became the junior national team in 1979, he completed four junior international games in which he scored three goals.
Although still nominated for the 1980/81 season for the junior league, Gütschow came at the beginning of the season in the GDR Oberliga team to use. Already on Matchday 1 he was in the match Dynamo Dresden - bismuth Aue (3-0) in the 83 minutes his Erstligaeinstand. By the end of the season he came up with 14 league goals and three missions, most recently he played regularly as a right striker. It was not until the 1982/83 season until Gütschow had won a regular place in the league team. This season, he missed only one league game and was second top scorer with new hits Dresdner behind Ralf Minge (17). At this time Gütschow but was already a member of the East German junior national team, for whom he played between 1981 and 1983 16 caps and scored four goals.
Three months after his last international match coming he announced on February 16, 1984 his debut in the senior team. In Friendlies Greece - GDR he was summoned as a left striker and scored the 3-1 winning goal for the GDR. Seven months later, he scored in the second leg in Zwickau also the 1-0 final score for the GDR. Despite this successful debut, he came only once on 22 March 1989 in a friendly against Finland (1-1) in Dresden as a substitute for use.
After Gütschow had missed the 1982 Cup Final (Dynamo Dresden - BFC Dynamo 5:4 on penalties ), he played on May 26, 1984 his first Cup final, which he won as a right attacker with a Dresden family against the BFC 2-1. He could repeat this success in 1985, but he was substituted in the 34th minute only for the injured Frank Lippmann. With 17 goals, he was in the 1984/85 season for the first time top scorer of Dresden. In the seasons 1985/86 and 1986/87 he fell due to a knee and a groin operation from a long time, completed in that time, only eleven point games. In November 1987, he was able to fully get into the premier league game again and was operating in the 1987/88 season and again with nine goals Dresdner scorer. The following three seasons brought Gütschow his greatest successes. 1988/89 he played for the first time, all 26 official matches, won with his team for the first time the East German Championship and with his 17 hits he has gained his first DDR - scorer crown from. With 18 goals, he was the 1989/90 league again the best shooter, so he helped Dynamo Dresden decisively to defend their title and as a left- winger, he won his season end with a Dresden family the cup final against PSV Schwerin 2-1. The last GDR Oberliga season 1990/91 Gütschow denied the only Dynamo player again every 26 point games, was again with 20 goals Serie A top scorer and had to get over it just that Dynamo Dresden time only was runner-up. The East German sports journalists voted him at the end of the season the last East German Footballer of the Year. After eleven league seasons, he could look back on 208 point stakes. With his 104 league goals he became the leading scorer of the Dresden Dynamo.
Dynamo Dresden had qualified in second place in 1990/91 for the now all-German Bundesliga. Even in professional football was Gütschow of the fundamental forces of Dresden. In the 38 rounds ending season 1991/92 he was employed in 31 games and finished with ten goals for the umpteenth time Dresdner scorer. Then Gütschow played only the first round in 1992, played in eight of 17 games and made his Bundesliga Goals account increased to 12 results. This was enough to get Dresdner Bundesliga record contactors to time indefinite.
Between Istanbul and Chemnitz
During the winter break of the 1992/93 season, he spent half a year to the Turkish first division side Galatasaray, where he also Turkish soccer champions after 15 operations with ten goals. Then he returned, now 31 years old, returned to Germany, where he had accepted within three seasons for three teams in the 2nd Bundesliga. 1993/94 he played for FC Carl Zeiss Jena, but could not prevail there and played just nine league games, mostly as substitute players. In Hannover 96 was the season for Gütschow 1994/95 successful. In 38 second division games he was used 33 times in the rule as a winger and was with his 16 goals for the most goals in the 96. 1995/96 denied Gütschow all 34 league games for the Chemnitz FC and was also there with 15 goals scorer. Then he returned to Dynamo Dresden, where he still completed three seasons in the third-tier Regionalliga with 82 inserts and 33 goals until his final playing career end.
Achievements
- GDR Champion 1989, 1990
- East German Cup winner 1984, 1985, 1990
- DDR - Oberliga - scorer in 1989, 1990, 1991
- NOFV- Player of the Year 1991
- Turkish football champions 1993
Career as a coach
In the 2003 /04 season Gütschow coached Bremen FC Oberneuland in the fourth division Oberliga Niedersachsen / Bremen. With 12 square his team failed to qualify for the newly created Oberliga Nord, thus ending his contract. In the summer of 2006 Gütschow took over the coaching job at fünftklassigen Lower division TuS Heeslingen, which he led in his first Coach of the Year in the then Oberliga Nord (from 2008 Oberliga Niedersachsen ). With the club in 2010, he qualified for the DFB Cup, in which they claimed a 2-1 eliminated in the first round against second division side Energie Cottbus. With the TuS Heeslingen Gütschow managed three times the athletic promotion to the Regionalliga, for which the club but never received the license. After the club had received financial reasons for the season 2013/14 no league license more, Gütschow was dismissed.
Private
Gütschow is the father of twins.
State Security
Gütschow was unofficial collaborator of the State Security of the GDR. The reason for his cooperation Gütschow indicates to have been blackmailed.