Frank Ganzera

Frank Ganzera ( born September 8, 1947 in Dresden) was soccer player in the DDR - Oberliga and stood 13 times in the national football team of the GDR.

DDR - Oberliga player

The 1.86 m wide Ganzera Frank, a professional tool maker, came at the beginning of the season 1966/67, with 19 years from the second division FSV Dresden locomotive for local rivals SG Dynamo Dresden. Dynamo had little successful years behind and had risen only two years ago after a year back in the second division DDR - Oberliga. In the previous 1965/66 season they had achieved a rank 5 the best score of the last eleven years. Ganzera was intended to strengthen the defense of the Dresden series. However, it turned out that not the defense, but the attack was the problem child of the Dynamos, as with the lowest success rate of all premier league teams ( 25 in 26 games ) but almost as many goals against as in 1966 and 1967 ( 33) had 1968 descend again Ganzeras team. Ganzera had played his first league point game for Dynamo on November 19, 1966 the 12th match day, in the game with bismuth Gera ( 0:3) as a left defender. With the chances of promotion and the sensational third place in the season 1969/70 as a freshman, Dynamo Dresden heralded his successful era that lasted until the end of the GDR football. By 1976, Frank had in mind Ganzera share. He played all the games in the successful 1970/71 season, when Dresden with league and cup in the GDR football history winning the Double for the first time, and he was also at the championships in 1973 (24 games) and 1976 (1 game) involved. In the years 1972, 1974 and 1975 he was again in the cup final, but without being able to repeat the success of 1971. When he finished his career with Dynamo Dresden after the 1975/76 season, he could look back on a record of 133 league games. As a defender or defensive midfielder after all he scored eight goals. Its official adoption took place on December 11, 1976 before the league match Dynamo Dresden - FC Magdeburg first place. Then Ganzera returned to his former team FSV Lok Dresden, where he was still active as a player from 1976 to 1978 and then coached the team until 1980.

Auswahlspieler

Even as a player of Lok Dresden Ganzera both in the GDR youth team (3 games) as well as in the youth team ( 7 games) was used. His first senior international, he played on December 8, 1969 in Baghdad against Iraq (1:1), where he was summoned as a central defender. In the following 27 international matches of the GDR national team, he was still 12 times used his last international match took place on May 27, 1973 held in Bucharest, where Ganzera suffered a 0-1 defeat at right-back. After passing the gate of the Romanians, he was replaced with the Magdeburg Pommerenke. In the years 1971 and 1972 Frank Ganzera also belonged to the football Olympic team of the GDR. There, he played six games and was on 10 November 1972 as a right-back in the small final against the Soviet Union. After a 2-2 draw after extra time, both teams were given according to the regulations, the bronze medal.

Track record

  • GDR Champion 1971, 1973, 1976
  • East German Cup winner 1971
  • Bronze Medal Olympic Games in 1972
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