Peter Ducke
Peter Ducke ( born October 14, 1941 in Bensen, Sudetenland ) is a former football player from the GDR. The striker ran on in 68 appearances for the East German national team and brought with the national team at the 1972 Olympic Games bronze medal.
- 2.1 Teams
- 2.2 Achievements
Career
Early years
The family of Peter Ducke had after the Second World War in the Sudetenland leave their home and settled in Nice (Elbe ) near Magdeburg down. After both his father and his three brothers had engaged in football, also Peter Ducke this sport turned and started in 1950 his football career at the local Sports Association Motor Beautiful Beck, whose first men's team in the national league of Saxony- Anhalt (2 played. league). In 1957 his older brother Roland Ducke to DDR Oberliga SC Motor Jena and tried there also accommodate his 16- year-old brother. In the trial, however, this could not convince particularly and was sent back home.
DDR - Oberliga player
Only after convincing performance in five international matches with the East German youth team 1959-1960 Peter Ducke was of interest to the Jena, and so he moved to the start of the league season 1959 SC Motor Jena. Already in its second league season he was able to record the first big success. On October 7, 1960, he took his team to a 3-2 victory over Empor Rostock GDR football trophy. With his two goals he was instrumental in this success. With the Cup winning Motor Jena had laid the foundation for a successful era, which lasted over 20 years.
In Peter Duckes active time Jena was later acting as FC Carl Zeiss Jena, three times GDR champion and cup winner. As a center forward of the team Ducke was involved in 18 years with 153 gates crucial to this success. It therefore has a rank 3 in the top scorers DDR Oberliga. From 1960 to 1964 and again in 1969 Ducke was unerring art scorer of Jena, 1963, he was with 19 goals scorer in the league. This led the league coaches, Ducke in a survey of the German Sports Echo newspaper at the best center-forward the season 1962/63 to be named. His league career could have been even more successful in 1966 would not have a double rail and broken fibula and 1974, a meniscus injury in each case for a long time put him out of action. Even a ten -week ban for his Ausrasters at 1-2 against the SC building in Magdeburg Cup final in 1965 helped that Peter Ducke is only the twelfth position of the list of league - record players with 352 point games. His effervescence brought him also even more space references with subsequent match suspensions. Despite all his playful skill and spectacular actions for football favorite in the entire GDR let him be provided with the nickname " Black Peter ". In 1965 he was awarded the 1971 Athlete of the Year as a footballer of the year. With the conclusion of the 1976/77 season Peter Ducke ended his active career.
Auswahlspieler
Even as a player of motor Beautiful Beck Peter Ducke was used in the youth team of the district Magdeburg and made already there as a scorer 's attention. The result was that he was also appointed to the East German youth team and there participated in the UEFA youth tournament in 1960, among others. In the same year, Ducke was only 19 years old, he was appointed for the first time in the senior team. 5-1 on October 30, 1960 in Rostock, he played at his brother Roland the side and gave a successful debut with a goal. With his last international match on November 19, 1975 ( 1-1 against Czechoslovakia ) he came to a total of 68 matches in which he scored 15 goals.
In the only World Cup appearance of the GDR national team in 1974 Peter Ducke was only used for a short time because of not fully recovering from injury. At the legendary 1-0 victory over the DFB he was not on the court. His only significant international success reached Ducke with the football Olympic team of the GDR. On September 10, 1972, he was in Munich in the small final of the Olympic football tournament, which gave the bronze medal after a 2-2 draw against the Soviet Union both teams. Between 1971 and 1975 Ducke played 13 times in the Olympic team and scored two goals.
Career Overview
Men
Achievements
- GDR Champion: 1963, 1968, 1970
- GDR Cup Winners: 1960, 1972, 1974
- Serie A top scorer: 1963
- East German Sportsman of the Year: 1965
- East German Footballer of the Year: 1971
- Olympic bronze: 1972
After the active time
Even after his playing career ended Peter Ducke remained faithful to the Jena club and worked as a coach at youth level. In January 1980, the FC Carl Zeiss dismissed him as a coach and joined him as a member of the club, because unauthorized contacts with West German citizens he was accused of. Then Ducke was a year in the training center of the district of Gera worked and then took on a qualified sports teacher studies at the University of Jena. After graduating, worked as a school sports teacher, including many years in the Jena district Lobeda. In 1993, the Free State of Thuringia wanted him sacked for alleged collaboration with the East German state security service from the education service. However, it was Ducke to refute the allegations in a legal procedure. Since the independence of Kosovo, Ducke committed to the recognition of Kosovo's Football Association FIFA. Since 2007 in Kamenz, OT German Baselitz at SV building German Baselitz the Peter Ducke football camp instead, which he supported as a football coach. On 30 July 2013, Peter Ducke could properly register for his commitment to this football camp for youngsters of the region in the Golden Book of the city Kamenz.