Dieter Riedel

Dieter Riedel ( born September 16, 1947 in Groeditz ) was soccer player in the DDR Oberliga for Dynamo Dresden and later became a football coach. As a player of Dynamo Dresden, he was five times champions and Cup Winners' Cup twice. From 1995 to 1997, Riedel President of Dynamo Dresden.

Football career

Champion player with Dynamo Dresden

Riedel, who had started with ten years in the ESR steel Groeditz with the football game, was delegated in 1966 to Dynamo Dresden. Previously, he had denied in April 1966 as a left winger an international with the GDR's national junior team. As a striker on the outside right position of the 1.70 m wide Riedel began his career in the GDR Oberliga on Matchday 1 of the 1967/68 season in the match Dynamo Dresden - 1 FC Magdeburg (1:1). At the end of the season were for him 13 league inserts to book. He had played consistently on different storm positions, but without scoring. Dynamo Dresden were relegated to the second-rate DDR League after this season. With 19 of 30 point games and two goals Riedel was involved in the immediate resurgence of Dresden. During his 15 -point game appearances in the following league season 1969/70 he had his final root position found as a right winger, on the Gert Heidler he made a dangerous wingers in the coming years. As early as the second year after the re-emergence Dynamo Dresden scored a great success with the Double of league and cup. Riedel was also involved in the championship with 19 point games and six goals as the Cup victory he claimed a 2-1 celebrated on 12 June 1971 as a right winger on the BFC Dynamo. Other championship titles with the participation of Riedel followed 1973 ( holds a 22 -point games and four goals ), 1976 ( 26/7 ), 1977 ( 18/3 ) and 1978 (18 /6). On 28 May 1977, Riedel took a 3-2 victory over 1.FC Lok Leipzig his second Cup victory.

National player and Olympic champion

1973 Riedel was included in the squad of junior national team. His first junior international match on November 21, 1973 against Hungary in which he scored the only goal in a 1-1 draw for the GDR, he followed until 1975, six other internationals. Among them were the two finals at the junior European Championship 1974 against Hungary, with which the GDR was by 3:2 and 0:4 runner-up. At this time, Riedel was already A-National player. On March 27, 1974, he had made ​​his debut in the East German national team, as he had been used in the game against Czechoslovakia (1-0 ) 68 minutes as a center forward, before he was replaced by his teammate Hans -Jürgen Kreische. At the big in these years supply of good strikers Riedel could not pass, so he did not came out of the status as a substitute and until 1978 played a total of only four 'A' matches without scoring. Use as a substitute helped Riedel the biggest success of his football career. In the first round match of the Olympic football tournament in 1976 in Canada on July 18, 1976 to be the amateurs of Brazil (0-0 ) it was used as the game as a center forward and had thus earned the gold medal, which the East German Olympic team after a 3-1 won - final victory over Poland.

European games

During his time in Dresden Dynamo team graduated 50 European games. Of which denied Riedel 46, in which he scored nine goals. On September 20, 1967, he was the first European Cup final of Dresden this when meeting Dynamo - Glasgow Rangers (1-1) in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup 1967/68. With his 1-1 equalizer Riedel was the first European Cup scorer of Dresden. Among his most notable European games include the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup 1972/73 against FC Liverpool ( 0:2, 0:1 ) and the games against Bayern Munich in the Champions' Cup in 1973/74 ( 3:4, 3:3 ).

Career-ending

Shortly before finishing his career as a football player Riedel was able to achieve a personal success in the 1978/79 season. This season, stayed in the Dynamo Dresden untitled, Riedel scored nine goals in 22 league matches and was therefore in his 12th season for the first time but also unique scorer in Dresden. In the 1979/80 season to the end of his league career hinted that the 32 -year-old Riedel came between the 4th and 25th Round only in nine league games for use, including just four on 90 minutes. His last league game he played on Matchday 3 of the 1980/81 season when meeting Rot-Weiß Erfurt - Dynamo Dresden ( 0-1) on September 6, 1980 It was the 211th league game in his 15-year career in which. he also shot 49 league goals.

After playing career

Even after the end of his career as a football player Riedel remained with Dynamo Dresden. From 1982 to 1986, the qualified sports teacher Riedel under head coach Klaus Sammer was responsible for the training of the league team of Dynamo Dresden. After the fall of 1989, he was chief marketing officer, youth leaders and board member. On August 26, 1995 Riedel was chosen as the successor to the arrested Rolf -Jürgen Otto as President of the Association. This office he held until 2 September 1997. On 28 September 2006 the General Assembly of Dynamo Dresden Riedel appointed an honorary member of the association. Between 2007 and 2009, Riedel was a member of the Dynamo 's supervisory board. For years he supervised volunteer tradition team of SG Dynamo Dresden.

By 2001, Riedel worked alongside his work as a sports teacher at a middle school in Dresden as coach of BSC Freiberg.