Rocco Milde

Rocco Milde
Personal information
Date of birth	8 June 1969 (age 54)
Place of birth	Pirna, East Germany
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
0000–1983	Wismut Pirna-Copitz
1983–1987	Dynamo Dresden
Senior career*
Years	Team
1987–1989	Dynamo Dresden II
1987–1990	Dynamo Dresden
1989–1990	→ TSG Meißen
1990	→ Stahl Riesa
1990–1993	VfL Bochum
1993–1994	Hannover 96
1994–1996	Hansa Rostock
1996–1998	Dynamo Dresden
1998–1999	FSV Zwickau
1999–2002	Dresdner SC
2002–2003	Dynamo Dresden
2003–2005	VfL Pirna-Copitz
Total
International career
	East Germany U-21
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Last updated February 03, 2024

Rocco Milde (born 8 June 1969) is a German former professional footballer ^[2] who played as a forward. Milde had a much-travelled career, but is best remembered as a Dynamo Dresden player, having had three separate spells with the club.

Career

Early career

Milde began his career with Dynamo Dresden, and made his debut for the club in a DDR-Oberliga match against Hallescher FC Chemie in April 1988. He was on the fringes of the Dynamo team for the next two seasons as the club won two East German titles, as well as the FDGB Pokal in 1990. During the 1989–90 season he also turned out for TSG Meißen and Stahl Riesa, both of whom were acting as feeder clubs to Dynamo.

Bundesliga years

Like many players, Milde moved west after the fall of the Berlin Wall, joining Bundesliga side VfL Bochum in 1990. He spent over three years with Bochum, scoring three goals in 54 games, before leaving at the end of 1993, just after the club had been relegated to the 2. Bundesliga. He signed for Hannover 96, and scored on his debut, a 2–0 win over Rot-Weiß Essen. He made a further 16 appearances, scoring twice more, before signing for Hansa Rostock in July 1994. The 1994–95 season was the most successful of Milde's career to date – he scored nine goals in 21 appearances as the club won the 2. Bundesliga title. Rostock followed this up with an impressive sixth-place finish in the Bundesliga, but Milde was less involved, making sixteen appearances (mostly as a substitute) and scoring once.

Return to Saxony

In 1996 Milde re-joined Dynamo Dresden, who had since been demoted to the third-tier Regionalliga Nordost. He partnered another Dynamo veteran, Torsten Gütschow, for the next two seasons, and both scored prolifically, but the club were unable to return to the second tier. In 1998 Milde signed for FSV Zwickau, who had just been relegated to the Regionalliga Nordost, and formed a successful striking partnership with the Serbian forward Veselin Popovic. However, the Regionalliga was to be re-structured at the end of the 1999–2000 season, and this combined with a poor start meant that Zwickau were effectively relegated with the season half over. Many players left the club, with Milde joining Dresdner SC along with team-mates René Beuchel and René Groß.

At this time, DSC were the top club in Dresden: while Dynamo were being relegated to the Oberliga, Milde helped them to a second-place finish in the Regionalliga in 1999–2000. They finished 9th the following year, with Milde as top scorer (with nine goals), but after falling out of favour during the 2001–02 season he joined Dynamo Dresden for a third time.

Milde's return to Dynamo was a popular one, but was marred by injuries. The club won the 2002 NOFV-Oberliga Süd title in 2002, and beat Hertha BSC II in a playoff to earn promotion to the Regionalliga Nord. Milde made just nine appearances the following season, and left Dynamo for a final time in 2003. He played out the remainder of his career with amateur side VfL Pirna-Copitz, before retiring in 2005.

Personal life

Milde's brother Tino was also a footballer, and his son Paul has just been promoted from Dynamo Dresden's youth team.

Honours

Dynamo Dresden

Hansa Rostock

2. Bundesliga: 1994–95

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References

↑ "Rocco Milde". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 19 August 2012.
↑ "Milde, Rocco" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 19 August 2012.

External links

Rocco Milde at fussballdaten.de (in German)

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[1] "Rocco Milde". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 19 August 2012.

[2] "Milde, Rocco" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 19 August 2012.

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Personal information
Date of birth	(1969-06-08) 8 June 1969 (age 54)
Place of birth	Pirna, East Germany
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)^[1]
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
0000–1983	Wismut Pirna-Copitz
1983–1987	Dynamo Dresden
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1987–1989	Dynamo Dresden II	56	(13)
1987–1990	Dynamo Dresden	8	(0)
1989–1990	→ TSG Meißen	4	(2)
1990	→ Stahl Riesa	3	(4)
1990–1993	VfL Bochum	54	(3)
1993–1994	Hannover 96	17	(3)
1994–1996	Hansa Rostock	37	(10)
1996–1998	Dynamo Dresden	56	(27)
1998–1999	FSV Zwickau	46	(16)
1999–2002	Dresdner SC	61	(17)
2002–2003	Dynamo Dresden	15	(0)
2003–2005	VfL Pirna-Copitz	18	(6)
Total		373	(103)
International career
	East Germany U-21	4
*Club domestic league appearances and goals