Defender Wilfried Gröbner was a member of the East German (GDR) football team that beat Poland 3-1 at the Montréal Olympics to become the first German team to win an Olympic gold medal, coming on as a 68th minute substitute in the final. From 1976-79 he played 7 international matches with the East German national team.
Gröbner played with 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig from 1967-80 in 229 Oberliga matches, scoring 18 goals, and helped them to win the GDR-Cup in 1976. As a graduated sports teacher, Gröbner later became a soccer coach, starting his career as a youth coach within the national team until 1988. He then took over FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt until 1989 and after re-unification coached West German team SSV Reutlingen. In 1995 he became sports manager of Reutlingen and later worked as a scout with Bundesliga teams VfL Wolfsburg and 1. FC Nürnberg.
East Germany