Jürgen Croy
Jürgen Croy 1978
Jürgen Croy (* October 19, 1946 in Zwickau ) was football goalkeeper and football coach in the GDR Oberliga, the highest soccer class of the East German Football Association. There he played for the Sports Association (SPA ) Engine / Sachsenring Zwickau, with which he was twice Cup winners. With 94 A- international matches is Croy record goalkeeper of the East German national team. With the East German Olympic team in 1976, he won the gold medal. He was elected three times to the East German Footballer of the Year.
Football career
BSG Motor / Sachsenring Zwickau
After Croy, son of a vehicle plumber, eight years old had played eight years for the BSG activist Karl Marx Zwickau and there initially began as a center forward, he was delegated as a goalkeeper for the 1963 Oberliga BSG Motor Zwickau. There he was first employed in the junior and reserve team, and with the start of the 1965/66 season he took over from the retiring former premier league goalkeeper Peter Meyer. His first league game was the encounter of the 2nd Game Day on August 18, 1965 Hansa Rostock - Motor Zwickau (1:2). Already in his first league season was Croy with 24 of 26 possible point games new goalkeeper of the league team. With its ideal dimensions 1.86 meters tall and 85 kilograms in weight as well as its robust health Croy remained until 1981 the undisputed number one in Zwickau goal. Of the discharged during this time 416 point league games he played 372 games and got away with it had a rate of 83.4 %. Only in the seasons 1972/73 and 1978/79 put him injury for a long time out of action. The five substitute goalkeeper to Croy times had so never take a chance in the big leagues walking, only Günter Kirtschig (23 missions ) and Gerd Püschel (14 ) were short-term benefit of Croy's injuries.
In the years 1967 and 1975 Croy won with motor or Sachsenring ( renamed from 1968) the East German soccer cup. In the dramatic final 1975 Croy became the hero of the day when he held two Dresdner shots against Dynamo Dresden in a penalty shootout and scored the winning goal to 4:3 itself. In the years 1967 and 1975/76 Croy denied all ten European games of Zwickau. In the quarter- final match against Fiorentina, he was again successful as a penalty taker and had so decisive role in reaching the semi-finals, Zwickau greatest success in the European Cup (RSC Anderlecht ( 0:3, 0:2 ).
Croy played his last league season 1980 / 81st Even at the age of 34, he was once more through all 26 point games and was strucked with 372 inserts Zwickau record keeper in the GDR Oberliga and reached behind Alois Glaubitz second place in Zwickau players record list. From 1975 to the End of career Croy was team captain. Although he was from 1967 national team, he held the Zwickau Sports Association fidelity and resistance to the demands of East German Football Federation, as usual, to join as a national player a football club. In the years 1972, 1976 and 1978, the East German sports journalists Croy voted Footballer of the Year.
Auswahlspieler
1963 Croy was included in the line-up of the East German junior national team. On October 13, 1963, he graduated in the encounter DDR Romania ( 4-1 ) his first Junior National team. Until 1965 it was used in a total of 16 international matches of the GDR youth team and was followed in 1965 by the team that won the UEFA youth tournament ( the unofficial European Junior Championships ) to a 3-2 victory over England. Seamlessly joined to 1968 five matches with the East German youth national team.
On May 15, 1967 Croy denied Hälsingborg at 0-1 against Sweden his first game with the senior team. First, he stayed behind Wolfgang Bloch joke goalkeeper, only with the game Poland - East Germany on 20 October 1968, he moved on to the goalkeeper of the national team. He remained the eleven years until his 1979 Jena, Hans -Ulrich Grapenthin replaced. On May 19, 1981 Croy was at the international game DDR - Cuba (5-0 ) for the last time in goal for the national team. He had come to A- 94 international appearances and thus ranks third in the list of most-capped player and number one on the goalkeeper. His most memorable countries Match of Croy in the Football World Cup in 1974 as he stood in the 1-0 victory over the GDR to the Federal Republic in the gate.
His greatest success as a player selection Croy celebrated with the East German Olympic team, with whom he completed a total of 23 official matches 1968-1976. Having already won the bronze medal in the Olympic football tournament in 1972, he won in 1976 in Canada to a 3-1 victory over Poland the gold medal, for which he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. His outstanding achievements both as league players as well as a national player in 1989 honored with the election of the " best soccer player in 40 years of the GDR ."
Football coach
Croy had completed training as a qualified sports teacher during his time as a football player in 1975. He had the prerequisite to work from 1982 as a coach at Sachsenring Zwickau. It first was active in the youth field, he was appointed at the beginning of the 1984/85 season to coach the first team that played only in the second-rate DDR League since 1983. In his first year he led the team back to the league, but rose by return again. He succeeded in 1988, although the re- ascent, but he was replaced for the league season 1988/89 by Udo jewelry.
Public and professional career
In June 1989, Croy was appointed for a short time until its dissolution as Vice President of the East German Football Association. When, after the turn of 1989, the BSG Sachsenring was converted into the FSV Zwickau, Croy took duties as Board and Supervisory Board of the Association. In 1976 he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Zwickau. In September 1994, he was elected (independent) to the mayor for culture, education and sport. From 2000 to 2010, Jürgen Croy managing director of cultural tourism and trade fair companies Zwickau GmbH.
From 1976 to 1982 Croy was research assistant at the Pedagogical University of Zwickau and then worked as a sports teacher. After the German reunification he joined initially as a representative of the sporting goods company Puma and later took a job as a publishing manager at three West Saxon display leaves.
Achievements at a glance
- Gold medal at the Olympics in 1976
- Bronze medal at 1972 Olympics
- Winner of the UEFA youth tournament 1965 ( unofficial European Championship)
- Participation in the 1974 World Cup
- East German Cup winner 1967, 1975
- Semi-finals in the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1976
- Footballer of the Year in 1972, 1976, 1978
- Best soccer player in 40 years of the GDR 1989