Frank Baum (footballer)

Frank Baum (born 30 January 1956 in Zwenkau ) was soccer player in the GDR Oberliga and played there for the BSG Chemie Leipzig and the first FC Locomotive Leipzig. With the locomotive crew, he was three times GDR Cup winner. Tree is 17-time national team and won the 1980 Olympic Football Tournament the silver medal.

Football career

Youth and Chemie Leipzig

Frank Baum grew up in his birthplace Zwenkau up as the son of a football player. His father took him seven years to his Sports Association (SPA) activist Zwenkau with where Frank Baum began his football career. 1967 delegated him to the BSG Football focus of the region, the first FC Locomotive Leipzig. Here he went through to the junior team all youth teams of the club and completed an electrician apprenticeship. The Junior Tree won in 1973/74 the East German Junior Championship. Nevertheless, one could see at the club no prospects for tree because he had been thrown back into the past by four legs broken again and again in its development. He was delegated in the summer of 1974 the neighboring BSG Chemie Leipzig. The chemist had just been relegated from the top league, but managed with the participation of the tree, who played 17 second division matches in his first season in the men's area, its chances of promotion. His coach Karl Schäffner certified him: " Frank is technically very gifted, has a good shot, and he brings above all the necessary love and obsession for football with. " ( German Sports Echo, April 4, 1975)

In the summer of 1975 began the tree first league season in which he played with 22 of 26 possible point games in the starting eleven inside. His debut in the big leagues he gave on August 27, 1975, the second season game day. In the encounter Rot-Weiß Erfurt - Chemie Leipzig (4:1 ), he was employed as a central midfielder, and he remained in this position generally over the entire season. At season's end had Chemie Leipzig again relegated to the second-rate DDR -Liga.

1 FC Lok Leipzig

After the revival had been missed twice, joining tree for the season 1978/79 back to the Oberliga side 1 FC Lok Leipzig. After some experiments on different positions Tree had found eight games of his future regular place as a sweeper. In his first season at Lok he came on 20 Oberliga, and seven domestic cup games. He also was used in a UEFA Cup match. Although tree in the 1980/81 season could deny only 14 point games and had previously played any cup match, he stood on 7 June 1981 at the final of the fdgb Cup. With a 4-1 win over FC Vorwärts Frankfurt Leipzig won the Cup and the tree his first title in the men's area. 1986 and 1987 won the tree to the second and third time the GDR Cup.

Following the 1981's Cup winning the first FC Lok launched a successful season in the European Cup winners, in which he advanced all the way to the quarter finals. Tree was in all eight games of the party. Even more successful Lok Leipzig was in the same competition 1986/87, as the final was reached. After the tree had already played six of the previous eight European games, he was also on his regular position as a sweeper in the final on May 13, 1987 compared with Ajax Amsterdam, which was lost in Athens 0:1.

Apart from the 1983/84 season, a tree only played seven times in the league, the tree was until 1987 the standard Libero of the 1st FC Lok and 1985-1988 Team Captain. After only six league games 1987/88 he played 1988/89 with 33 years, his last Erstligasaison. Once he completed 25 point games, plus two fdgb and four European games. His last league Match of tree on the last season game day, the June 3, 1989 After he had been standing at the most competitive matches of the season in the starting lineup, he was in the game engine -. , Carl Zeiss Jena ( 2-1 ) one last time in the 71. minutes off the bench. He had come for the first FC Lok Leipzig on 202 league games in which he was able to achieve six goals as a defensive player. In the games around the fdgb Cup he came in 35 games ( 3 goals ) for use in the European Cup he played 32 times ( 3 goals ). From 1985 to 1988 the tree was at the 1 FC Lok Team Captain.

Farewell to the players career

After the end of his career as a high- performance athletes played tree in the 1989/90 season when DDR -division club BSG Chemie Bohlen and won with the edge of Leipzig promotion to the Oberliga. After the merger Böhlens with the former BSG Chemie Leipzig in the summer of 1990 to FC Sachsen Leipzig Frank Baum took part in the 1990/91 season once again in the top division of the country and in the following season with the Leutzschern in the third-class NOFV- Oberliga of the reunified Germany leagues system. At 36 he went to the fourth-rate district league VfB Zwenkau 02, the successor club of his home -BSG. In the season 1994/95 played tree after the year in which, after the introduction of the Regionalliga now fourth-rate NOFV- Oberliga in the south- relay at the bismuth successor 1 SV Gera.

National players

Six months after his return to the DDR - Oberliga, Tree was appointed on 28 February 1979, the first time in the East German national team. In Friendly Match Bulgaria - DDR ( 1-0) it was used as a left defender. It was his handicap that his club Libero position was occupied in the national team for a long time by Hans -Jürgen Dörner, so he came there only twice used (7 May 1980 East Germany - Soviet Union 2:2; September 12, 1984, GDR - Greece, 1-0). . As a rule tree was summoned as the beginning of his national team career on the left side of defense. Within eight years, played in tree 17 A- international matches, of which he completed 13 over the full season.

1980 was one tree in the squad of the GDR for the Olympic football tournament in the Soviet Union. He denied two of the three group matches, the quarter - and semi-final and was on August 2, 1980 in Moscow in the final against Czechoslovakia. While tree had completed the previous games at right back, he was a finalist in the right midfield. The East won the silver medal after the 0-1 final defeat. With his teammates, he was awarded in the same year with the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.

National team overview

• All matches at www.dfb.de

Coach

From 1995 to 1997 tree was player-manager of the sports community Leipzig Transport. He then worked as a coach at Kickers 94 Markham and the A- youth of the VfB Leipzig. In 2003, tree training the first men's team of SG LVB Leipzig in the district league Leipzig.

Achievements

• East German Junior Champion: 1974 (1st FC Locomotive Leipzig)
• DDR - Oberliga Up: 1975 (BSG Chemie Leipzig ) and 1990 (BSG Chemie Bohlen )
• Fdgb Cup winners: 1981, 1986, 1987 (1st FC Locomotive Leipzig)
• European Cup finalists in the Cup Winners' Cup: 1987 ( first FC Locomotive Leipzig)
• Silver medalist Olympic Games: 1980 (5 games, no goals for the GDR )