BITESIZE | Uwe Rosler: Spies and Harleys
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
4.5 • 863 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Today’s story comes from Uwe Rosler, who tells how as a promising youngster in East Germany he was picked up by the dreaded Stasi and pressured to spy on his Lokomotive Leipzig team-mates.
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| 1:06.0 | The tale today comes from a Manchester City Hero, Uve Rosler. |
| 1:12.0 | Here, Uve recalls a scary encounter with the Stasi, East Germany's secret police, whilst a youth player at |
| 1:19.9 | FC locomotive Leipzig in the 1980s. |
| 1:29.0 | I was taken away when I was 11 for my parents, |
| 1:31.0 | went into a place where you live, sleep, learn and play football |
| 1:39.8 | 24-7 and everything controlled everything managed by the government. My parents didn't need to pay any money whatsoever for this elite school. There was a elite school and my parents and I'm by myself was really proud to be chosen to be on that school. |
| 1:59.5 | In my district where I come from, hundreds of kilometers there was nobody ever achieved that so it was quite a statement quite a privilege |
| 2:08.9 | But to keep that privilege to stay there was from 11, 12, 13 years onwards, pressure every year two free players |
| 2:16.2 | headed to leave, two free players had to come in. And so the whole system was run by pressure from the top to perform to perform to perform. |
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