Claus Boden

Claus Boden 1980

Claus Boden was a goalkeeper in the DDR-Oberliga. He played for Dynamo Dresden and Riesa Steel and 16 times for the East German U-23 national team.

Career

Boden comes from the Lower Torwartschule Dynamo in Dresden, where he grew up. He was nearly 20 years old when he became a goalkeeper. At the time in 1971 goals were 1.75 m tall. A year later he replaced Manfred Kallenbach as goalkeeper and participated in the final of East German soccer on 14 May 1972. The game ended 1-2 against FC Carl Zeiss Jena. In 1973 he won his first title ground by winning the GDR championship. Overall, he was with Dynamo Dresden East German champions four times, in 1977, he won after 1972, 1974 and 1975 at the fourth attempt and the FA Cup after a 3-0 victory on May 28 over FC Lokomotive Leipzig.

In 1974 he was a member of the U-23 national team of the GDR, who played for the Junior European Championship. The team reached the final, where they were defeated in the second leg.

In the championship years 1975/1976 and 1976/77 he played 26 or 22 matches as goalkeeper of Dynamo Dresden. However, in 1976 the then 24-year-old junior and multiple B-National player was Bernd Jakubowski of Hansa Rostock. He broke in the season 1977/78 from the ground as goalkeeper. He played 153 league games and 39 European games in the 1981/82 season.

Meanwhile, more than 30 years old, he moved at the beginning of the 1982/83 season to ESR Steel in neighboring Riesa, which was relegated from the league two years before, and where his former Dresdner player already Rainer Axis was in the squad. At the end of the season Riesa Steel rose again in the league. He stayed with this team until 1988. He repeated his descent to 129 league games, so its balance sheet increased to a total of 282 Erstligaeinsätze. He scored two goals from the penalty spot.

With the end of the 1987/88 season he finished his playing career. He later worked as a goalkeeping coach.

External links

• Claus Boden at fussballdaten.de (in German)