The Olympic victory in Montreal almost 50 years ago crowned the most successful period of the GDR national soccer team. The state amateurs took the gold medal with a 3:1 victory over Poland in the final on July 31, 1976. Half a century after their greatest success, eight former players got together in Rostock for the first time. "We realized it was about time, because we hardly have any time left," said Gerd Kische, who organized the alumni reunion together with third-division soccer club Hansa Rostock.
With a talk in the evening at the Ostseestadion and a visit to Hansa Rostock's match against Jahn Regensburg on Saturday, the program is well filled, with time to indulge. "It was a victory for eternity. Nobody can and will take that away from us," said Hartmut Schade in a media round table.
