Reinhard Häfner
Reinhard Häfner ( born February 2, 1952 in Sonneberg ) was soccer player in the DDR - Oberliga, the top division of the East German Football Association. In the league Häfner played for FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt and Dynamo Dresden. By Dresden, he was four times champion and four times Cup winners. He played 58 A- international matches and won the gold medal in the 1976 Olympic football tournament. After his playing career was Häfner football coach.
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Football career
Youth
Häfner began his football career with the native operating motor sports community Sonnenberg. Inserts in the junior selection of the district Suhl led in 1968 to delegate to FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt. There he first played for FC Rot-Weiss in the junior league and was included in the squad of the junior national team in 1970. His first of six junior internationals played Haefner on 18 March 1970 in the encounter DDR - Austria (4:1). When UEFA Youth Tournament 1970, he was named after a 1-1 draw against France and drawing lots of unofficial European junior champion. He was taken in the junior national Subsequently, for which he played 36 international matches.
FC Rot -Weiß Erfurt
For the 1970/71 season of FC Rot -Weiß Erfurt Häfner took over in the levy of the DDR Oberliga. There he was employed first Gameday and played in his league debut in the game 1.FC Union - FC Rot-Weiß (4:1) as a right midfielder. He remained in this position substantially throughout his playing days. At the end of the season, in the 1.74 m wide Häfner was immediately become a regular player with 25 league operations, were relegated from the premier league red and white. Since Häfner now belonged to the squad of the national team, was found in him the need to look for another league club. Although he had chosen FC Carl Zeiss Jena, sat by the East German Football Association that Haefner joined the DDR champion Dynamo Dresden.
Dynamo Dresden
In Dresden was Häfner immediately starting eleven and reached the end of his first season, the Dynamo- final of the East German soccer cup. However, the Dresdner subject Carl Zeiss Jena 1-2. In the 1972/73 season he was involved with 20 -point game inserts and five goals at championship win Dresdner. 1974 was Häfner again in the Cup final, but his team was defeated again Jena 1:3. Even his third cup final he lost in 1975 against Sachsenring Zwickau ( 3:4 on penalties ). 1975/76 won Häfner after 25 point game operations for the second time Football Championship, the third title was followed a year later, connected to the first Cup victory 3-2 over the first FC Lok Leipzig. 1977/78 won the Dresdner Dynamos with Häfner for the third time in a row the championship, subject to Häfner but again in the cup final 0-1 against 1.FC Magdeburg. Ironically, in his previously weakest league season 1981/82, in the Häfner had only come in nine league games point to use, he won for the second time the East German soccer cup with a 5-4 victory on penalties over the BFC Dynamo. The three cup victories and won four Häfner 1984 and 1985 with two new victories over the BFC (2:1 and 3:2 ). In the final 1984 Häfner succeeded his only Endspieltor a penalty to make it 2-0 in the 82nd minute. The seasons 1985/86 and 1986/87 played Häfner, although well over 30 years old, with 23 and 25 point games yet fully. 1987/88 was Häfner's last league season in which denied another 14 point games. On the final day he participated in the meeting Dynamo Dresden - FC Carl Zeiss Jena farewell to the high-performance sports. For Dynamo he had played 366 league games in 17 years. With 25 league operations in Erfurt he gets to 391 first division matches, with whom he is in fifth place in the GDR record player list. In addition, Häfner played 64 European games.
A-National player
After his forced to July 1, 1971 change from Erfurt to Dresden Häfner was first used already on 18 September 1971 in a senior international. In the 1-1 draw against Mexico in Leipzig, he came on in the 55th minute for the Leipzig Henning Frenzel as a midfielder. As Wolfgang Seguin and Jürgen Pommerenke took his position in midfield, it took until 1975 before he had a regular place in the national team won. A protracted cold also prevented its use in the 1974 World Cup After Häfner had completed a finals game with the Olympic selection already at the Olympic Games in 1972. ( In the small final - Bronze for the GDR - he did not play ), Häfner denied after five qualifying matches all five finals matches in the Olympic football tournament in 1976 in Canada and won the Olympic team gold medal with a 3-1 victory over Poland. Häfner scored the 3-1 in the 84th minute. From October 4, 1978 to November 21, 1979, he was, together with Hans -Jürgen Dörner, Martin Hoffmann and Gerd Weber at one of four players circle, in 1980 all eight games completed in Group 4 of the European Championship qualifier. Due to the 2:3 defeat on November 21, 1979 in Leipzig before 92,000 spectators against the Netherlands missed the DFV - selection to participate in the European Championship finals in Italy in 1980. His 58th and last 'A' game he played on September 12, 1984 in Zwickau in a friendly against Greece ( 1-0).
Coach
Häfner had in 1981 obtained his coaching diploma and was therefore taken immediately after the end of his active career Dynamo Dresden as an assistant coach Eduard Geyer. As a Geyer was in April 1990, with only one point behind still good lying in the title race, dismissed, Häfner took over the office of the head coach and led Dynamo to last GDR football championship. A week later he managed after a 2-1 cup final victory over PSV Schwerin also the Double. A year later led Häfner Dresdner after a 2nd place in the NOFV- Oberliga in the Bundesliga, but was released immediately after the end of the season due to alleged inadequate performance. He was entrusted with a little later at Dynamo manager duties, but left in the summer of 1993 Dresden final and took over as coach at Chemnitz FC in the 2nd Bundesliga. Two years Häfner was able to keep the club in the 2nd Bundesliga. As the Chemnitz FC in the spring of 1996 came in danger of relegation, Haefner was fired four games of season, then the Chemnitz were relegated anyway. After positions with the clubs first division club FC Sonnenberg and SSV Erfurt-Nord Häfner took over in July 2000, the training of the riser in the Oberliga Nordost Hallescher FC. 2001 Häfner increased with HFC back into the regional league and became adopted in May 2002 in a solemn way. Later Häfner suffered from alcoholism and depression and had to go through a detoxification. 2009 Häfner was coach at eight division SV Grün-Weiß in Langeneichstädt. Since the summer of 2011, he is a trainer at the 1 FC Radebeul, which plays in the county league Meissen.
Achievements
- Winning the UEFA Youth Tournament 1970
- East German champion in 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1990 ( as coach )
- East German Cup winner 1977, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1990 (as coach )
- Olympic champion in 1976