Reinhard Häfner
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![]() Häfner with Dresden in 1990 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 2 February 1952 | ||
Place of birth | Sonneberg, East Germany | ||
Date of death | 24 October 2016 | (aged 64)||
Place of death | Dresden, Germany | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
BSG Motor Sonneberg | |||
Rot-Weiß Erfurt | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1970–1971 | Rot-Weiß Erfurt | 25 | (6) |
1971–1988 | Dynamo Dresden | 366 | (49) |
Total | 391 | (55) | |
International career | |||
1971–1984 | East Germany | 58 | (5) |
Managerial career | |||
1990–1991 | Dynamo Dresden | ||
1993–1996 | Chemnitzer FC | ||
1. SC Sonneberg | |||
SSV Erfurt-Nord | |||
2000–2002 | Hallescher FC | ||
2009–2011 | SV Grün-Weiß Langeneichstädt | ||
2011–2016 | 1. FC Radebeul | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Reinhard Häfner (2 February 1952 – 24 October 2016) was a German football player and coach.
Career
[edit]Häfner played children's and youth football for his hometown club BSG Motor Sonneberg. As a junior player he was assigned to Rot-Weiß Erfurt before joining Dynamo Dresden in 1971. He stayed with the Dresden club until his retirement as a player in 1988 having played in 366 East German first division DDR-Oberliga matches, scoring 49 goals. He is second to Hans-Jürgen Dörner in matches played for Dynamo. Häfner was part of four DDR championship and FDGB Pokal (East German Cup) winning teams there.
Between 1971 and 1984 he was capped 58 times for the East Germany national team, scoring 5 goals, and was part of the gold medal-winning squad at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada.[1]
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In April 1990, two years after his retirement as a player, Häfner became head coach of Dynamo Dresden, replacing Eduard Geyer. Weeks later Dynamo claimed its eighth championship and seventh cup. The following season, despite the sale of star players Ulf Kirsten and Matthias Sammer, Häfner guided the Dresden team to a second-place finish in the final DDR-Oberliga season before the merger of the football competitions of East and West Germany following the reunification of the country, qualifying the club for the first division Bundesliga. Despite this success he was dismissed in June 1991. He moved on to coach second division club Chemnitzer FC from 1993 to 1996.
Häfner joined SV Grün-Weiß Langeneichstädt (Kreisliga Merseburg/Querfurt, Sachsen-Anhalt) in the post-season of 2006–07.
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Reinhard Häfner". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
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[edit]- 1952 births
- 2016 deaths
- People from Sonneberg
- German men's footballers
- East German men's footballers
- FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt players
- Dynamo Dresden players
- Dynamo Dresden managers
- Footballers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Footballers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Olympic footballers for East Germany
- East Germany men's international footballers
- Dynamo Dresden non-playing staff
- Chemnitzer FC managers
- DDR-Oberliga players
- Men's association football midfielders
- Footballers from Thuringia
- German football managers
- Olympic medalists in football
- Olympic bronze medalists for East Germany
- Olympic gold medalists for East Germany
- Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
- German football midfielder, 1950s birth stubs