Henry Lesser
Henry Lesser ( born May 8, 1963 in Bad Love Stone ) is a former football player of the GDR football game operation. In the top division of the East German Football Association, the league, he played for the BSG Motor Suhl and FC Carl Zeiss Jena. Lesser is a four-time East German national team.
Sports career
BSG Motor Suhl
Lesser comes from a Skispringerfamilie and turned as pupils also the ski jumping. Only later he moved to the Sports Association (ESR ) steel Brotterode football. In November 1982 he was drafted for military service, could play football at the Army Community Dessau forward in the second-rate DDR - Liga this time though. From September 1984, he played for the league - Up Motor Suhl. On 4 Oberliga Gameday was 1.78 m tall striker in the encounter bismuth Aue - Motor Suhl ( 2-0) used for the first time. After that, he played down to the final day all matches of the Suhl and usually played center forward. In these 22 top flight matches he came on four goals and thus became top scorer of the engine crew. This could not hold the league and rose again after one year from the DDR -Liga.
FC Carl Zeiss Jena
Lesser then left Suhl and joined the Oberliga side FC Carl Zeiss Jena. There he was employed first Gameday of the 1985/86 season in the league, certainly had 8 Gameday at a regular place as a winger and played all 26 league games. In early 1986, Lesser was included in the squad of the East German national team. On February 4, 1986, he played in a friendly Mexico - East Germany (1-2) his first international match, he came on in the 80th minute for the right winger Ulf Kirsten. Until April 1986 he was employed in three other internationals, where he only played in the match Brazil - stood GDR ( 3-0) in the starting lineup, but there also played only 65 minutes. In the season 1986/87 he dropped out in the first twelve league matches, so he was only 14 league appearances in this season. In the following season he was again only 10 Gameday at regular intervals in the league team of FC Carl Zeiss, still as a winger. On June 4, 1988, he stood as a right attacker with FC Carl Zeiss in the final of the East German soccer cup, the Jena lost the game against the BFC Dynamo 0:2 but with the extension. After Lesser had only started the 1988/89 season as a substitute, coach Lothar Kurbjuweit presented him with the start of the season in the defense, where Lesser denied all the back round point games usually at right back. During the 1989/90 season already hinted Lesser's career end, he was only eleven times in the top league for use in the second half, he played only two matches as a substitute. On September 1, 1990 Lesser did a last competitive game for the league team of FC Carl Zeiss Jena. In the game of the third game day 1 FC Magdeburg - FC Carl Zeiss [4:3 ), he played as a left winger for the last time for 65 minutes in the Jena team. It was his 134th competitive game for FC Carl Zeiss, among which were 96 league games with six goals, twelve domestic cup games ( two goals) and four scoreless European games.
End of runway / trainer activity
For the 1991/92 season Lesser moved to Borussia Fulda in the third-class Oberliga Hessen. His career trailed off at the clubs TSV Hessian Kunzell, SG Bad Soden and Germania Fulda. From 2000 to April 2008 was Lesser, who had already purchased the sports teacher diploma while his Jena period, active at Borussia Fulda as a coach. With the start of the 2010/11 season, he took over the training of the SV Neuhof in 1910 in the group siebtklassigen League Fulda, where he was released on 21 May 2012. Since the 2012/13 season Lesser has worked at sechstklassigen Fulda Association division club TSV Lehnerz as a coach. In his first year coach managed the club of first-time promotion to the fifth rate Hesse league.