Uwe Zötzsche

Uwe Zötzsche ( born September 15, 1960 in Zwenkau ) was soccer player in the GDR Oberliga ( 1 FC Locomotive Leipzig) and in the French League 2 (Racing Strasbourg). With Lok Leipzig he was three times GDR Cup winner. Zötzsche played 38 times in the GDR national team.

Football career

Club player

Zötzsche began in 1968 at the BSG Motor Eythra. The age of ten he moved to BSG Chemie Leipzig and graduated in 1974 1 FC Locomotive Leipzig. After 1978/79 played in the youth team, he was admitted to the 1979/80 season as a defender in the squad of the league team. The still undergoing training for electrician Zötzsche gave his league - debut on Matchday 3, August 29, 1979, when he in the encounter Rot-Weiß Erfurt - substitute 1 FC Lok (1:2) in the 15th minute been. Already in his first league season came the great defenders 1.85 m to 20 point stakes, and remained until 1988 regular players of the locomotive crew. His greatest successes came in the GDR football trophy. In all three Cup winning Lok Leipzig - 1981, 1986 and 1987 - he was standing in the playoff team.

Immortal, he argued for the Lok - trailer in the European Cup Winners 1986/87 at the semi-final match against Girondins Bordeaux April 22, 1987 in Leipzig Central Stadium: In the 108th minute game Zötzsche a penalty kick. Later, when a penalty shootout he proves incredible courage, runs again and hits! He stood with the Lok - team finals, which however was lost against Ajax Amsterdam 0-1.

During his last two seasons Leipzig 1988/89 and 1989/90 he was only 11 - or used 17 times. In his eleven years Oberliga time played Zötzsche for 1.FC Lok in 243 Oberliga point games, played 39 national and 34 European games. In these 316 official matches, he scored 65 goals as -budgetary defender.

In 1990, Zötzsche for a second season in the French league to Racing Strasbourg and played there 29 point games. In the summer of 1991 he returned to Germany and played one year for the KSV Hessen Kassel in the Oberliga Hessen. From 1992 to 1994 Zötzsche was the first FC Markham. He was then free time footballers at the district division club VfB Zwenkau 02

Auswahlspieler

Zötzsche played with the junior national team of the GDR 21 and with the East German junior national team eight internationals. Starting in 1982, he belonged to the senior national squad of the GDR. There he came on 14 April 1982 in Leipzig during a friendly game DDR - Italy (1:0) at left-back for his first senior international. Until 1988 he was employed in 38 international matches and scored five goals. In the years 1983 and 1984 Zötzsche belonged to the squad of football Olympic team of the GDR, with whom he performed in seven qualifying matches. Although the GDR had qualified for the Olympic football tournament in 1984 in Los Angeles, Zötzsche was brought to the part in the Olympics because the Olympic boycotts of the GDR.