Jürgen Sparwasser

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Jürgen Sparwasser

Jürgen Sparwasser with Team GDR in October 1975
Personal information
Full name	Jürgen Sparwasser
Date of birth	(1948-06-04) 4 June 1948 (age 75)
Place of birth	Soviet Occupation Zone
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
1956–1964	BSG Lokomotive Halberstadt
1965	1. FC Magdeburg
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1966–1979	1. FC Magdeburg	298	(133)
International career
1969–1977	East Germany	49	(14)
Managerial career
1990–1991	SV Darmstadt 98
Medal record Olympic Games 1972 Munich Team Competition
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jürgen Sparwasser (born 4 June 1948 in Halberstadt) is a retired German football player and later briefly a football manager.

Sparwasser started his playing career in the youth department of his hometown club

Between 1969 and 1977 Sparwasser played in 49 matches for East Germany, scoring 14 goals.^[4] As a member of the Olympic team in 1972, he played in 7 matches and scored 5 goals. He won a shared bronze medal for his native country.^[5] He also made six appearances for East Germany at the 1974 FIFA World Cup finals, where he gained fame for scoring the winning goal in a politically prestigious match against West Germany.

This goal was exploited politically, but Sparwasser did not profit from it. As he said later: "Rumor had it I was richly rewarded for the goal, with a car, a house and a cash premium. But that is not true."^[6] In 1988, Sparwasser defected to West Germany while taking part in a veterans' tournament there.

After his playing career he had a brief managerial career, working as assistant manager at Eintracht Frankfurt in 1988 and 1989 and as head coach at SV Darmstadt 98 in 1990 and 1991.

Career statistics

International goals

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	9 July 1969	Ostseestadion, Rostock, East Germany	United Arab Republic	5–0	7–0	Friendly
2.	9 July 1969	Ostseestadion, Rostock, East Germany	United Arab Republic	6–0	7–0	Friendly
3.	19 December 1969	National Stadium, Cairo, Egypt	United Arab Republic	1–0	3–1	Friendly
4.	16 August 1971	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara, Mexico	Mexico	1–0	1–0	Friendly
5.	7 October 1972	Stadion Dresden, Dresden, East Germany	Finland	2–0	5–0	1974 FIFA World Cup Q.
6.	7 October 1972	Stadion Dresden, Dresden, East Germany	Finland	5–0	5–0	1974 FIFA World Cup Q.
7.	8 April 1973	Ernst Grube Stadium, Magdeburg, East Germany	Albania	2–0	2–0	1974 FIFA World Cup Q.
8.	13 November 1973	Qemal Stafa Stadium, Tirana, Albania	Albania	4–1	4–1	1974 FIFA World Cup Q.
9.	23 May 1974	Ostseestadion, Rostock, East Germany	Norway	1–0	1–0	Friendly
10.	22 June 1974	Volksparkstadion, Hamburg, West Germany	West Germany	1–0	1–0	1974 FIFA World Cup
11.	16 November 1974	Parc des Princes, Paris, France	France	1–0	2–2	UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying
12.	29 July 1975	Varsity Stadium, Toronto, Canada	Canada	1–0	3–0	Friendly
13.	28 July 1977	Zentralstadion, Leipzig, East Germany	Soviet Union	2–1	2–1	Friendly
14.	29 October 1977	Karl-Liebknecht-Stadion, Babelsberg, East Germany	Malta	4–0	9–0	1978 FIFA World Cup Q.
East Germany's goal tally first. Correct as of 6 September 2011[7][8]

Honours

• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1
  • Winner
    1974
• DDR-Oberliga: 3
  • Champion
    1974–75
• FDGB-Pokal: 4
  • Winner
    1979
• Olympic football tournament
  • Bronze medal Munich 1972

See also

• List of Soviet and Eastern Bloc defectors

References

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