Goya Jaekel (born 25 October 1974) is a former professional German
football
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player.
Playing career
Jaekel, a
striker
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by trade, represented
Germany
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at the
1991 FIFA U-17 World Championship
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, scoring two goals in four games before being knocked out in the quarter-finals by
Spain
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, i ...
.
He signed for
Hertha BSC
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in 1995 after coming through the ranks of local
Berlin
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er teams
BFC Viktoria 1889 and
BFC Preussen
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. At the end of the
1994–95 2. Bundesliga
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season, he made two substitute appearances for Hertha at the
Olympic Stadium
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. Following spells at
Kickers Emden
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History
The club first began playing in 1928 as a section of the gymnastics club Emder Turnverein, which was founded in 1861. An inde ...
and
SC Verl in the latter half of the 1990s, the forward signed for
Tennis Borussia Berlin and made 12 appearances for the ''Veilchen'' in the
Regionalliga-Nord. Jaekel later played for
SV Tasmania-Gropiusstadt 1973
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History
Tasmania's predecessor c ...
and