Hans-Jürgen Riediger
| Hans-Jürgen Riediger | ||
 Riediger (left) in 1975 in the BFC jersey
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | 20th December 1955 (age 64) | |
| place of birth | Finsterwalde , | |
| size | 181 cm | |
| position | striker | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1964-1965 | BSG tractor Sonnewalde | |
| 1965-1970 | BSG Motor Finsterwalde Süd | |
| 1970-1973 | BFC Dynamo | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1973-1984 | BFC Dynamo | 193 (105) |
| 1973-1974 | BFC Dynamo II | 3 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1972-1974 | GDR U-18 | 34 (16) |
| 1974-1980 | GDR offspring | 8 (3) |
| 1975-1976 | DDR Olympia | 8 (3) |
| 1975-1982 | GDR | 41 (6) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Hans-Jürgen Riediger (born December 20, 1955 in Finsterwalde ) was a soccer player in the GDR upper league at the Berlin soccer club BFC Dynamo . He played 41 times (6 goals) in the GDR national soccer team and won the Olympic gold medal in 1976 .
Athletic career
BSG / Club stations
In his youth, Hans-Jürgen Riediger played for the company sports club Tractor from Sonnewalde and the BSG Motor Finsterwalde Süd . In August 1970, the talented attacker moved to the Berlin soccer club BFC Dynamo at the age of 14 . The striker made his GDR league debut at the age of 17 on June 20, 1973 when he played against Sachsenring Zwickau . In the next home game against BSG Wismut Aue , he scored his first two goals in the top division of the GDR.
With his numerous goals, he was instrumental in the first five championship titles of the BFC from 1979 to 1983. Overall, Riediger played 193 games in the GDR league and scored 105 goals. Despite his outstanding goalscoring rate, he was never the top scorer in the league, where he often only just barely had to admit defeat to the most successful scorer. In his last season 1982/83 Riediger scored 16 goals, that was the third best record after 1975/76 (18) and 1978/79 (20). He scored his goals in 1982/83 on the first 15 league games. After that, the striker injured his knee seriously, so that both this season, which had begun with so many goals for him, and - as had to be determined in the further course of treatment - his career ended prematurely. Despite the failure after matchday 15, he was still third in the list of the best goal scorers of the season this season. In the summer of 1984 he was finally adopted from the top division team of the Weinrote.
Selection bets
From April 1972 to May 1974 Riediger was used in 34 games of the GDR junior selection, in which he scored 16 hits. While he and the team had to give up the sails in the preliminary round of his second participation in the 1974 UEFA youth tournament in Sweden, the GDR juniors were able to fight for second place in Italy in 1973.
On March 26, 1975 he played against Bulgaria for the first time for the national team of the GDR . With her he later came to a total of 41 international matches (or 39 games according to FIFA's interpretation ), in which he scored six goals. As with the BFC a short time before, Riediger was officially retired from the national team together with his former teammates Lothar Kurbjuweit and Hartmut Schade before the GDR team's World Cup qualification kick-off in autumn 1984 in the Leipzig Central Stadium.
In the Olympic selection Riediger was used in eight games in 1975 and 1976 and won the gold medal at the football tournament of the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal . For this success he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.
Until 1980, the BFC striker was called up as one of the older players eligible to play in the GDR youth team, in which he made his debut in 1974. With this team he finished in 1978 and two years later in each case the 2nd place at the U-21 European Championships .
Further career
After his involuntary end of his career as a result of cartilage damage in his knee and subsequent inflammation, Riediger studied at the DHfK in Leipzig and worked as a youth coach at BFC Dynamo and its successor FC Berlin until 1996. He was also the head coach of the lower-class clubs TSG Fredersdorf and Eintracht Königs Wusterhausen.
Trivia
His son Marcel is also a footballer. He played at FC Berlin and Halleschen FC , among others .
literature
- Andreas Baingo , Michael Hohlfeld: Soccer selection player of the GDR. The lexicon . Sportverlag Berlin , Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00875-6 , page 139.
- Michael Horn, Gottfried Weise : The great lexicon of GDR football . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-536-8 , page 282.
- Hanns Leske : The GDR league players. A lexicon . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-392-9 , page 409.
Web links
- Hans-Jürgen Riediger in the database of the German Football Association
- Hans-Jürgen Riediger in the weltfussball.de database
- Hans-Jürgen Riediger in the database of transfermarkt.de
- Hans-Jürgen Riediger point game overview at RSSSF.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jörn Luther & Frank Willmann: The master club. Das Neue Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-360-01227-5 , page 107f
- ↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In: New Germany . September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (online at ZEFYS - newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , free registration required).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Riediger, Hans-Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Finsterwalde |