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}} Gerd Weber (born May 31 , 1956 in Dresden ) is a former German soccer player. Gerd Weber started playing in 1970 for SG Dynamo Dresden in the DDR-Oberliga . At the 1976 Summer Olympics , he won the gold medal, being part of the national soccer team of the GDR . From 1975- 1980, he played 35 times for the national time, in this time scoring 5 goals. In 1981, he and his co-players ( Peter Kotte and Matthias Müller (soccer) ), a short time before takeoff to Argentina where they were supposed to compete, were arrested on the Dresden Airport by the Staatsicherheit . Gerd Weber had contacts to the 1. FC Köln , and solicited escape plans, wanting to flee to the Federal Republic Of Germany . Weber was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of seven years and seven months. In 1989, he was released before serving his full sentence. However, he was not allowed to play soccer on a professional level anymore. |
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