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Ronald Kreer (born 10 November 1959) is a German former professional
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Biography

Kreer began his career playing for the youth side of BSG Lokomotive Delitzsch, the local club of the town where he grew up, under the trainer Klaus Rudolph in 1968, played there for three years and then of
1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig 1. Fußballclub Lokomotive Leipzig e.V. is a German football club based in the locality of Probstheida in the Südost borough of Leipzig, Saxony. The club may be more familiar to many of the country's football fans as the historic side VfB Lei ...
in 1970. After having developed in the club's youth side successfully, he was promoted to the Lok's senior squad in 1979. Kreer played 244 games in the
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for the club, scoring 10 goals, he holds the all-time record for the most Oberliga appearances in the history of
1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig 1. Fußballclub Lokomotive Leipzig e.V. is a German football club based in the locality of Probstheida in the Südost borough of Leipzig, Saxony. The club may be more familiar to many of the country's football fans as the historic side VfB Lei ...
. He debuted to the senior squad as the substitute for Matthias Liebers at 67 minutes of the match of the FDGB-Pokal 1978 2nd round against Motor Babelsberg under the trainer Heinz Joerk, on 14 October 1978. Lok won it with 2–0 and proceeded to the next round. His first appearance for
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is at the match between Lok and
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on 21 October 1978, as the 18th in Lok's line-up. He scored at 22 minutes of the match, Lok lead with 1–0 and won with 2–1. With Lok he won the FDGB Pokal three times 1981, 1986 and 1987. 1986
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5–1
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31 May 1986 and 1987
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4–1 FC Hansa Rostock 13 June 1987. And he became the runner-up twice in
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, both were competed with
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. 1986:
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34:18,
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32:20. 1988: decided on goal difference:
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58:30,
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39:20. There was "a trio that provides a defense guarantee for 1. FC Lok" of three national players then;
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,
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and Ronald Kreer. Kreer took to the field in 27 European matches with
1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig 1. Fußballclub Lokomotive Leipzig e.V. is a German football club based in the locality of Probstheida in the Südost borough of Leipzig, Saxony. The club may be more familiar to many of the country's football fans as the historic side VfB Lei ...
. His largest win is the 7–0 over
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at the first leg of the first round of the UEFA Cup 1984/85 in Bruno-Plache-Stadion on 19 September 1984. His highest achievement is the
1987 European Cup Winners' Cup Final The 1987 European Cup Winners' Cup Final was a football match contested between Ajax of Netherlands and 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig of East Germany. It was the final match of the 1986–87 European Cup Winners' Cup and the 27th European Cup Winners' ...
in Athens on 13 May 1987 against
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's Ajax. At the second leg of the semi-final on 22 April 1987,
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defeated
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on the legendary dramatic penalty shootout, proceeded to the final for the first time in the club history. Kreer, who kept fighting though with his nasal bone fractured from the early minutes of the match, jubilated and celebrated their victory running with the teammates under the flood of the over-fulfilled fans' roaring in Leipzig's Zentralstadion. Ajax won the final with 1–0, Lok received the runner-up medal. Kreer played for the East Germany Youth team at the 1980 Under-21 European Championships, and was sent off (61. "uncontrollable reaction" to Gassajew) as the team were beaten 1–0 by the USSR in the second
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in Moskva. Kreer played for the East Germany Olympic team and the squad finished as the top of the group B, qualified to the
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. The result:
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14:5 13:3
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13:6 13:3. Their last qualifying match was on 18 April 1984 4–0 against
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. Their long journey began in the season 1982/83, playing two matches with the club teams and 21 matches with the national teams. 44 players in total were called up to the latter 21, Kreer played 6 of 8 qualifying matches, 13 matches and scored one goal in total. On 10 May 1984, the
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announced that they would join the
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. He made his full international debut for
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on 22 September 1982 in a 2–2 draw against
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in Burgas. Kreer played a total of 65 times for East Germany (making him the 10th most-capped player). He also scored two goals in his international career, which ended in 1989. The second of the two goals was the decisive direct 25-metre shot for their sixth qualifying match of
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against
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on 11 September 1985. Legend
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was powerless,
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led 2–0 at 81 minutes of the match and won over the European champions. "Jubilee game and concentrated performance harmonized", said the co-trainer Harald Irmscher about Kreer's performance. His last appearance is their last qualifying match of the
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against
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in Wien
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on 15 November 1989, wearing the captain armband. There was possibility left to qualify, the tables at that time:
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9:4 9:5,
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12:8 7:7,
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9:10 7:7,
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6:9 7:7,
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(8 matches completed) 6:11 6:10. On 9 November 1989 the
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opened, the team hotel in Wien got surrounded by agencies like
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, hunting young talent at a low cost. Kreer was sent-off at 75 minutes of the match for the attempted action after headbutt of
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, left the pitch and the team with 3–0 behind.
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won and qualified. "A referee. unfortunately no referee and certainly not an impartial!". An editor of FUWO shouted in the match info box. Kreer played as a defensive
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, a man-marker usually aiming to kill the
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and a right full-back.  In 1991–92, Kreer played a season in the
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with the club, before ending his career with local rival
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in the third tier. In 2016, Kreer was selected as the right full-back of the Lok's Legend-Elleven by online-voting from the large-number fans. After ending his playing career, he worked with the
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training young talent around Leipzig, then has been working as
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dealer. He lives in Torgau and occasionally plays for the DDR tradition's team and for Lok oldies.


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kreer, Ronald 1959 births Living people German men's footballers East German men's footballers East Germany men's international footballers Footballers from Leipzig 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig players 2. Bundesliga players DDR-Oberliga players Men's association football defenders Sportspeople from Bezirk Leipzig