Frank Schulze

Frank Schulze ( born March 21, 1970 in Riesa ) is a former German football goalkeeper. With Dynamo Dresden and FC Vorwärts Frankfurt (Oder) or its successor club Frankfurter FC Viktoria he played league football. For the GDR Schulze played in both the U-18 as well as in the U-20 national team.

Schulze began his football career in his native city at the Sports Association (SPA) Stahl Riesa. At age eleven, he moved upriver to the police sports club Dynamo Dresden. As a junior player, he was appointed to the U-18 national team of East Germany in 1986, with whom he played 11 full internationals. On July 27, 1988 he was the goalkeeper of the team, the third in the U-18 European Championship, after a 2-0 victory over Spain. With the U -20 team in 1989, he took part in the U- 20 World Cup and played in all three games until the GDR was eliminated in the first round.

Four months later, Schulze was now fully trained as an industrial engineer, nominated as the third goalkeeper for the league team of SG Dynamo Dresden for the 1989/90 season. With some effort, chances Ronny Teuber and Thomas Köhler of 1.87 m wide Schulze was only used in three league games on the 5th, 6th and 26th game day and had therefore only a small proportion of winning the championship in 1990. On the other hand, he had the good fortune that he was placed in the final of the East German Cup on June 4, 1990 as a goalkeeper and his team won 2-1 over the PSV Schwerin. 1989 Schulze was appointed to the football Olympic team, with whom he performed in several test games. Even before the start of the qualifiers for the Olympic Games 1992, the team was withdrawn in the wake of German reunification.

At the beginning of the season 1990/91 changed Schulze for army club FC Vorwärts Frankfurt (Oder), who had risen in the league just after two years of absence. In Frankfurt Schulze was first Gameday at number one in goal and played 20 of the 26 matches of the season. In the course of the season, the club into the civilian Frankfurter FC Viktoria 91, who could only qualify for the amateur league at the end of the season as Table altered.

This took Schulze to the occasion, in the summer of 1991 to return to Dynamo Dresden, now as in the first Bundesliga 1 FC playing. However, as in his first East German Oberliga - year dynamo perpetual Schulze again an existence as a goalkeeper and came in three seasons until 1994, not a single point clearance for use. After he finished his contract with Dynamo and his career as an athlete.