Jürgen Pahl (born 17 March 1956 in Teuchern, East Germany) is a German former

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

goalkeeper. 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 winnin ...

from a match of the East Germany under-21 team to West Germany and was subsequently banned for a year. He played from 1978 to 1987 in the Bundesliga for Eintracht Frankfurt and won the

1979–80 UEFA Cup The 1979–80 UEFA Cup was the ninth season of the UEFA Cup, a football competition organised by UEFA for clubs representing its member associations. The competitions was won by Eintracht Frankfurt, who beat Borussia Mönchengladbach on the awa ...

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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