Frank Rohde

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Frank Rohde
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Rohde during a match between BFC Dynamo and FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt in August 1989
Personal information
Date of birth (1960-03-02) 2 March 1960 (age 63)
Place of birth Rostock, East Germany
Height1.82 m (5 ft 11+12 in)
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
SV Falkensee-Finkenkrug (manager)
Youth career
1966–1969 SG Dynamo Rostock-Mitte (de)
1969–1979 BFC Dynamo
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1980–1990 BFC Dynamo 200 (11)
1990–1993 Hamburger SV 103 (7)
1993–1995 Hertha BSC 48 (4)
International career
1984–1989 East Germany 42 (1)
Managerial career
1995–1998 Reinickendorfer Füchse
1998–1999 FC Sachsen Leipzig
2003–2004 Chemnitzer FC
2004–2010 Oranienburger FC Eintracht
2010–2015 SV Falkensee-Finkenkrug
2015–2017 FV Preussen Eberswalde
2017–2018 FV Preussen Eberswalde II
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Frank Rohde (born 2 March 1960 in Rostock) is a German former football player and coach. [1]

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Frank Rohde learned to play football at SG Dynamo Rostock-Mitte, like his three older brothers Peter, Rainer and Jürgen. Their father Egon Rodhe was a youth trainer at SG Dynamo Rostock-Mitte. Egon Rohde was delegated to BFC Dynamo in 1969. He became the head of the youth department and expanded the youth department of BFC Dynamo into a talent factory. [2] Their father brought his four sons with him to East Berlin and Frank Rohde joined the youth department of BFC Dynamo. [3] He then followed his three brothers to the elite Children and Youth Sports School (KJS) "Werner Seelenbinder" in Alt-Hohenschönhausen. All of his brothers played for BFC Dynamo.

Frank Rohde made his professional debut for BFC Dynamo in the 1979–80 season. He won nine East German league and two East Germany cups titles with BFC Dynamo. He was transferred to Hamburger SV together with Thomas Doll in 1990. Rohde played a total of 303 top-flight matches in East Germany and reunified Germany. [4] He later joined Hertha BSC in 1993. Hertha BSC played in the 2. Bundesliga at the time.

Rohde has acknowledged that he learned a lot at Hamburger SV and Hertha BSC, but claims that his years at BFC Dynamo were his best. [5] The sweeper won 42 caps for East Germany in the 1980s. [6]

Miscellaneous

Rohde lives in Eisenhüttenstadt and works as a teacher as of 2020. [7]

Honours

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The 1989–90 season was tumultuous for BFC Dynamo. The East German regime faltered and parts of the Berlin Wall were opened on 9 November 1989. Forward Andreas Thom became the first player in the DDR-Oberliga to leave for the West German Bundesliga. The dismantling of the champion team from the 1980s was now well underway. The Stasi was dissolved and the club thus lost a major sponsor. The East German Ministry of the Interior declared that it was only prepared to support the club until the end of the 1989–90 season. The club changed its name to FC Berlin on 19 February 1990, in an attempt to distance the club from the Stasi. The number of spectators dropped drastically. FC Berlin finished the 1989-90 DDR-Oberliga in fourth place and failed for the first time to qualify for a European competition. Also Thomas Doll, Frank Rohde and Rainer Ernst left for the Bundesliga after the season.

BFC Dynamo finished the 2003–04 Verbandsliga Berlin in first place and won promotion back to the NOFV-Oberliga Nord. Mario Weinkauf was elected as the new club president on 18 June 2004. His vision was a club that was "managed seriously from a sporting and financial perspective". Former professional player Christian Backs became the new coach for the 2004–05 season. Rajko Fijalek served as assistant coach and former professional goalkeeper Bodo Rudwaleit as goalkeeping coach. Central players in the team were Danny Kukulies, Tomasz Suwary, Jörn Lenz, Nico Thomaschewski and Robert Rudwaleit. BFC Dynamo finished is first season in the NOFV-Oberliga Nord, since returning from the insolvency crisis, in sixth place.

BFC Dynamo developed a very successful youth academy during the 1970s. The team had an average age of only 22.7 years before the 1978–79 season. Among the young talented players were Hans-Jürgen Riediger, Lutz Eigendorf, Norbert Trieloff, Michael Noack, Roland Jüngling, Rainer Troppa, Bodo Rudwaleit, Ralf Sträßer and Arthur Ullrich. The veterans in the team were Reinhard Lauck, Frank Terletzki, Wolf-Rüdiger Netz and Bernd Brillat. The young team was coached by 31-year-old coach Jürgen Bogs.

References

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  7. Jablonowski, Mirko (27 April 2020). "Vom Abstieg zum Wunder: Vor zehn Jahren begann Frank Rohdes erfolgreiche Trainer-Ära beim SV Falkensee-Finkenkrug". Sportbuzzer (in German). Hannover: Sportbuzzer GmbH. Retrieved 4 December 2021.