Wolfram Löwe
Wolfram Löwe ( born May 14, 1945 in Markranstadt ) was soccer player in the highest GDR football class, the top league. There he played for the first FC Locomotive Leipzig or for its predecessor clubs. With Lok Leipzig in 1976, he won the East German soccer cup. Leo is 43 times the national team and won with the East German Olympic team in 1976 the gold medal.
Football career
Youth players
Leo, whose father had also played football, started his football career at age nine in his hometown at the Sports Association (SPA) turbine Markranstadt. He was initially trained by Georg Hunchback, the father of the FIFA referee Rudi Glöckner. Even as a junior player made tungsten lion attention to himself as a successful striker. In a game between the junior teams from turbine Markranstadt and the Oberliga SC Lok Leipzig he made with four goals for the 4-1 win the Markranstädter. While still a junior player, he moved in 1962 to the second Leipzig league club, the SC rotation Leipzig. In 1963 he was among the players who assigned under the reorganization of the Leipzig football as the intended future giants SC Leipzig.
Club player
In the first league season of SC Leipzig 1963/64, Leo came to his first stakes in the big leagues. His start he gave on 27 October 1963 the 8th Round. In the home game against Lok Stendal he scored as a freshman at the position of right winger striker both goals in a 2-1 victory. By the 13th Round Leo still came in four more league games to use, always on the right wing. In the season 1964/65 the 19 year old had adjustment difficulties and played only five times in the league team. The breakthrough " wool " as he was called by his fellow players, 1965/66 when he became premier league with 20 inserts for regular players. This status is held lion by the end of his active career. However, it took until 1967 until the 1,74 m large lion had as a left winger also found its common position. This paid for the speedy attacker who was able to sprint the 100 meters in eleven seconds from, because in the season 1967/68 he was charged with 13 point game top scorer of his team and the second best in the league scorers.
Except for two third and a second place in the league and losing a cup final in 1964 ( without Lion), had the vorbestimme giants, who had converted in 1966 after a new restructuring on 1 FC locomotive to 1969 achieved no real success. The 1968/69 season turned for the first FC Lok represents the temporary low point when he was relegated Table from the league. For Leo, who had completed all 26 point games in the relegation season, with only two goals was but the misery with responsible, presented the descent is a particular problem, since he had become a national player. This status came in the second division in danger, but the national team coach Seeger and Buschner clung to their striker, so Leo came as a player of the second-rate DDR -Liga to four international matches. Lok Leipzig managed its chances of promotion, and Leo had in mind with 29 -point game inserts and 21 goals, with whom he was top scorer of the DDR -Liga significant proportion.
The Leipzig 1970, managed the surprise, to achieve than the second division final of the East German soccer cup. This time, Leo was in the playoff team, but could the 2:4 defeat against FC Vorwärts Berlin not prevent despite his terminal gate to 1:3. Also at the final participation lion had a decisive share, for he had been at all five previous cup matches in use and had scored four goals in the process. Three years later, Leo experienced another successful season Cup, this time competing for the UEFA Cup in 1973/74. The Leipzig came up in the semi-finals before, and had to get there the English representatives Tottenham Hotspur bend (1:2, 0:2 ). Leo played in all ten UEFA Cup games and was four times as successful scorer. After three unsuccessful attempts (1964 * 1970 and 1973 * - * without final use ) Leo won in 1976 finally the GDR football trophy. On 1 May 1976, he contested the final against FC Vorwärts Frankfurt, which won the Leipzig 3-0. This cup victory remained Lion sole national title.
In the premier league 1975/76 season lion was eight point game gates again the most successful shooter of the locomotive crew, but was not bound from now on to the left wing position, but was used variably to all attacking positions. 1979/80, graduated from Leo his last league season. Mainly used as a striker on the right side, he again came in spite of his 34 years in 25 of the 26 discharged point games used. His last league match took place on 10 May 1980. In the game FC Carl Zeiss Jena - 1 FC Lok (1:1), he stood again for 71 minutes on the court. In its 17 years, Leo played 321 league league point games in which he scored 87 goals. Add to this the 29 second division games 1969/70 (21 goals), 52 national and 30 European Cup games (26 and 11 goals).
Auswahlspieler
As a junior player of the SC Leipzig Leo was appointed to the Executive of the East German junior national early 1963, with whom he played two junior internationals. Between 1965 and 1968, Leo was used in seven international matches of the junior national team. From 1967, he belonged to the levy of the senior national team and played on May 17, 1967 his first international match for the A- selection. In the 1-0 win in Sweden he played as usual as a left winger. He then summed up very quickly in the national foot. The years 1973 and 1974 were the most successful of his international career. He played in all World Cup qualifying games of the year in 1973 and was nominated for the FIFA World Cup 1974 in Germany. There, Leo graduated from four of the six World Cup games, but lacked the memorable 1-0 win in the GDR selection of the DFB team. His last and 43 A ' Game of Leo on October 12, 1977 World Cup qualifier DDR - Austria. With his 1:1 equalizing goal, he saved with his 12th selection gate the draw.
Between 1967 and 1976 belonged lion to the levy of the football Olympic team of the GDR. In the failed qualification for the 1968 Olympic Games Lion denied four of the six qualifying games. In 1971 he graduated just a qualification game, had to pause for a second, and so Archillessehnenverletzung also missed winning the bronze medal in Munich in 1972. However, he was in all finals matches in the Olympic tournament of 1976 in Canada, and it was as right attackers on July 31, 1976 playoff team that won the gold medal with a 3-1 victory over Poland. Total Lion denied the Olympic selection eleven official internationals.
After the active career
In the 1980s, Leo worked as a trainer in Nachwuchsbereicht at the 1 FC Lok Leipzig. During his playing days he had completed his engineering studies for Vehicle Technology and later worked in this area for the railroad and after 1990 in the Federal Railways. From 1996 to 1998 Leo was appointed as special envoy with the Sparkasse Association Saxony, the main sponsor of the VfB Leipzig, successor club of 1.FC Lok. Last Lion worked at the Kreiswerke Delitzsch.
Achievements
- Olympic Gold Medal 1976
- East German Football Cup 1976
- Semi-finalist in the UEFA Cup in 1974
- DDR - runner 1967
- Oberliga rise in 1970