Jürgen Pahl (born 17 March 1956 in

Teuchern Teuchern is a town in the Burgenlandkreis district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated approximately 10 km southeast of Weißenfels. On 1 January 2011 it absorbed the former municipalities Deuben, Gröben, Gröbitz, Krauschwitz, Ne ...

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) is a German former football

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. He fled together with

Norbert Nachtweih Norbert Nachtweih (born 4 June 1957) is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He played in 325 Bundesliga games over the course of 13 seasons (46 goals), playing for Eintracht Frankfurt and Bayern Munich and winni ...

from a match of the East Germany under-21 team to

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and was subsequently banned for a year. He played from 1978 to 1987 in the

Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany's primary footba ...

for

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and won the

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and

1980–81 DFB-Pokal The 1980–81 DFB-Pokal was the 38th season of the annual German football cup competition. It began on 27 August 1980 and ended on 2 May 1981. In the final, FC Kaiserslautern was defeated by Eintracht Frankfurt (3–1) who were awarded the trophy ...

with them. Pahl now lives in Paraguay.

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1956 births Living people People from Teuchern People from Bezirk Halle German footballers East German footballers Footballers from Saxony-Anhalt East Germany under-21 international footballers Hallescher FC players Eintracht Frankfurt players Çaykur Rizespor footballers Bundesliga players East German defectors Association football goalkeepers Süper Lig players German expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Turkey East German emigrants to West Germany DDR-Oberliga players UEFA Cup winning players German expatriate sportspeople in Turkey {{Germany-footy-goalkeeper-stub

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