Dieter Erler

Dieter Erler ( born May 28, 1939 in Glauchau, † April 10, 1998 in Chemnitz) was soccer player in the GDR. In the highest DDR - Oberliga class football he played for SC bismuth Karl- Marx-Stadt and the SC / FC Karl- Marx-Stadt. He was twice East German football champion, was 47 -fold national team and Player of the Year in 1967.

League players

Erler started in 1953 in chemistry Glauchau playing football and played there until 1957. Already at the age of 17 he graduated with the men's team games in the second-rate DDR -Liga. After completing an apprenticeship as a boiler and container farmer, moved to season 1957 BSG bismuth Gera before settling at the beginning of 1959, the Oberliga bismuth SC Karl- Marx-Stadt joined after two seasons. His first league game for Aue graduated from the 1.77 m wide Erler on 1 March 1959 at the Leipzig Central Stadium carried out under flood light home game against Lok Stendal, where he was summoned as a right inside forward in the 2-0 victory. At the end of the season the SC bismuth had won the championship, Erler was used in all 26 league matches. As resolved by the end of the 1962/ 63, the SC bismuth and its football department was downgraded to the second tier Sports Association bismuth Aue, Erler left after 112 league games with 36 goals Aue and joined the new regional football focus SC Karl- Marx-Stadt.

Erler was immediately used first Gameday at now as a midfielder for SC Karl- Marx-Stadt in the top league and subsequently completed all the matches of the season 1963/64. In 1965 he experienced with his team the transformation to pure football club FC Karl- Marx-Stadt and in 1967 surprising and superior GDR Champion. As a team captain with 21 point game inserts and five goals he had supported the key to success. In 1970, he was relegated from the league and then spend a year in the second-rate DDR -Liga with FCK after a penultimate place in the table. There he completed all 30 point games and was so crucial to the chances of promotion involved. Meanwhile, 32 years old, Erler was still playing the Oberliga 1971/72 season through 25 missions and finished after his career as an active football player. In Karl- Marx-Stadt, he had completed 178 league games, so he came along with his time in Aue to a total of 290 Erstligaeinsätze. With his 18 goals for FCK he increased its total number of hits on 54th

International assignments

Even as Glauchauer players came to learning first selection honors. On October 13, 1956 he played his first international matches with the East German junior national team, was used in the total in the six official international matches. Between 1958 and 1960 he completed four caps with the junior national team, and in May 1959 he played with the B- team against the B- selection of Hungary (1:3).

Just two months later, on June 28, 1959, he stood in the qualifying match for the European Championship in Porto against Portugal (2:3) for the first time in the senior team. It was used in all the following 24 A- internationals Then, his last and 47th game with the senior team, he played on a South American tour on February 2, 1968 in Santiago de Chile against Czechoslovakia (2-2 ). This game was for learning, at that time captain of the national team, under unfortunate circumstances. After a foul, he was directed by the referee of the field, then informed him coach Seeger that he was replaced as captain. Since learning anyway with Seeger had difficulties, he then declared his retirement from the national team, for whom he had scored 12 goals also.

As a two-time football champions Erler also had the opportunity to participate in the games of the SC bismuth and the FCK in the European Cup of Champions. In the Cup 1960/61 season Erler denied the three games against the Austrian champions Rapid Wien (1:3, 2:0, 0:1 ). Also the FC Karl- Marx-Stadt survived in the Championship Cup 1967/68 only one round. Erler also denied these two games against Belgian champions RSC Anderlecht (1:3, 1:2 ).

After the performance sports

After learning was excreted as an active soccer player at FC Karl- Marx-Stadt, put it to the club as a talent scout and youth coach. Erler had already acquired in the 1960s at the Leipzig Sport University DHfK the gym teacher diploma. From December 1975 to June 1976 he was head coach of the FCK- league team, after which he worked until 1988 as an assistant coach of the first team. After the turn of 1990, Erler had professionally re-orient and took a job with the AOK Chemnitz. When Chemnitz FC, ​​successor to the FCK, he continued to volunteer work at youth level. 1997 Erler had to undergo heart surgery. At the age of 59 years he died of a heart attack.

Honors

A survey conducted by the newspaper Deutsches Sport Echo coach survey at the end of the season 1962/63 Erler was named as the best inside-right forward.

In 1967 he was chosen by sports editors of daily newspapers GDR Footballer of the Year.

The Chemnitz FC appointed Erler 1993, an honorary member of the club.

DDR coach Károly Soos about Dieter Erler: " It has everything: ideas, art, chance of scoring flair, sly, even hardness. I do think that there are not many players in Europe was the mid-sixties, the film was directed by better than learning. "(After Horn / manner lexicon of the East German football )