Background
Boden comes from the Lower Torwartschule Dynamo in Dresden, where he grew up.
Boden comes from the Lower Torwartschule Dynamo in Dresden, where he grew up.
He played for Dynamo Dresden and Riesa Steel and 16 times for the East German U-23 national team He was nearly 20 years old when he became a goalkeeper. At the time in 1971 goals were 1.75 m tall.
A year later he replaced Manfred Kallenbach as goalkeeper and participated in the final of East German soccer on 14 May 1972.
The game ended 1-2 against Football Club Carl Zeiss Jena. The team reached the final, where they were defeated in the second legal
In the championship years 1975/1976 and 1976/77 he played 26 or 22 matches as goalkeeper of Dynamo Dresden. However, in 1976 the then 24-year-old junior and multiple B-National player was Bernd Jakubowski of Hansa Rostock.
He broke in the season 1977/78 from the ground as goalkeeper.
He played 153 league games and 39 European games in the 1981/82 season. Meanwhile, more than 30 years old, he moved at the beginning of the 1982/83 season to Electron spin resonance Steel in neighboring Riesa, which was relegated from the league two years before, and where his former Dresdner player already Rainer Axis was in the squad. At the end of the season Riesa Steel rose again in the league.
He stayed with this team until 1988.
He repeated his descent to 129 league games, so its balance sheet increased to a total of 282 Erstligaeinsätze. He scored two goals from the penalty spot.
With the end of the 1987/88 season he finished his playing career. He later worked as a goalkeeping coach.
In 1974 he was a member of the U-23 national team of the German Democratic Republic, who played for the Junior European Championship.