Reinhard Häfner

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Reinhard Häfner 1990 as coach of Dynamo Dresden

Reinhard Häfner (born February 2, 1952 in Sonneberg ; † October 24, 2016 in Dresden ) was a German football player . He played in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of the GDR Football Association , for FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt and Dynamo Dresden . With Dresden he was four times champion and four times cup winner. He played 58 international matches for the GDR and won the gold medal at the Olympic soccer tournament in 1976 . After his active career, Häfner became a trainer .

Soccer career

youth

Häfner began his football career with the local company sports association Motor Sonneberg . Deployments in the junior team in the Suhl district led to a delegation to FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt in 1968. There he first played for FC Rot-Weiß in the junior league and was added to the junior national team in 1970. Häfner played his first of six international junior matches on March 18, 1970 in a 4-1 win over Austria. At the 1970 UEFA youth tournament, he became the unofficial European youth champions after a 1-1 draw against France and drawing lots. He was then taken over into the youth national team, for which he played 36 international matches.

FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt

For the 1970/71 season , the FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt Häfner took over in the squad of the GDR league. He was used there from the first match day and played on his first division debut in the game 1. FC Union Berlin - FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt (4-1) as a right midfielder. He retained this position essentially throughout his active career. At the end of the season, in which the 1.74 m tall Häfner immediately became a regular player with 25 league appearances, Red-White had to relegate from the league. Since Häfner was now part of the senior national team , the need arose for him to look for another league club. Although he had opted for FC Carl Zeiss Jena , the GDR Football Association pushed through a move to the GDR champions Dynamo Dresden.

Dynamo Dresden

In Dresden, too, Häfner immediately belonged to the regular eleven and reached the final of the GDR soccer cup at the end of his first Dynamo season . However, the Dresden team lost to Carl Zeiss Jena 1: 2. In the 1972/73 season he was involved in the championship win of Dresden with 20 stakes and five goals. In 1974 Häfner was back in the cup final, but his team lost again to Jena with 1: 3. He also lost his third cup final in 1975 against BSG Sachsenring Zwickau (3: 4 on penalties). In 1975/76 Häfner won the soccer championship for the second time after 25 league matches, the third title followed a year later, combined with the first cup victory in a 3-2 win over 1. FC Lok Leipzig. In 1977/78 the Dresdner Dynamos won the championship with Häfner for the third time in a row, but were again defeated in the cup final 0: 1 against 1. FC Magdeburg .

In the 1979/80 UEFA Cup season , Dynamo played in the second round against VfB Stuttgart . During the first leg, contacts were made for Häfner's escape to the West. In the half-time break of the second leg, a getaway car with the engine running was ready for Häfner, who at the last moment could not decide to leave his family to an uncertain future, so instead of going straight to the parking lot, he turned right into the Dresdener's cabin.

Ironically, in his weakest league season 1981/82, in which Häfner was only used in nine league point games, he won the GDR soccer cup for the second time with a 5-4 win on penalties over BFC Dynamo . Häfner won cup victories three and four in 1984 and 1985 with two new victories each over the BFC (2: 1 and 3: 2). In the 1984 final, Häfner scored his only goal in the final, a penalty to make it 2-0 in the 82nd minute. The seasons 1985/86 and 1986/87, although already well over 30 years old, Häfner played through with 23 and 25 point games respectively. 1987/88 was Häfner's last league season, in which he played 14 point games. On the last day of the match he said goodbye to competitive sports in the match between Dynamo Dresden and FC Carl Zeiss Jena. For Dynamo he had played 366 league games within 17 years. With his 25 league appearances in Erfurt, he comes to 391 first division games, with which he is fifth on the GDR record player list. In addition, Häfner played 64 European Cup games .

National team player

After his forced move from Erfurt to Dresden on July 1, 1971, Häfner was used for the first time in an A international match on September 18, 1971. In the 1-1 draw against Mexico in Leipzig, he came on as a midfielder in the 55th minute for Leipzig's Henning Frenzel . Since Wolfgang Seguin and Jürgen Pommerenke took his position in midfield, it took until 1975 before he had fought for a regular place in the national team. A protracted cold also prevented his use at the 1974 World Cup. After Häfner had already played a final game with the Olympic selection at the 1972 Olympic Games (he was not used in the small final, in which the GDR won bronze), Häfner played after five qualifying games also all five finals at the 1976 Olympic football tournament in Canada and won the gold medal with the Olympic selection after a 3-1 victory over Poland. Häfner scored the 3-1 in the 84th minute. For this success he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. From October 4, 1978 to November 21, 1979 he belonged together with Hans-Jürgen Dörner , Martin Hoffmann and Gerd Weber to a group of four players who played all eight games in Group 4 of the 1980 European Championship qualification. Due to the 2: 3 defeat on November 21, 1979 in Leipzig in front of 92,000 spectators against the Netherlands, the DFV selection missed participation in the 1980 European Championship in Italy. He played his 58th and last international match on September 12, 1984 in Zwickau in a friendly against Greece (1-0).

Trainer

Häfner had already obtained his coaching diploma in 1981 and was therefore taken over by Dynamo Dresden as assistant coach under Eduard Geyer immediately after the end of his active career . When Geyer was dismissed in April 1990, just one point behind in the title race, Häfner took over the post of head coach and led Dynamo to the last GDR soccer championship title. A week later, after a 2-1 cup final win over PSV Schwerin, he also made the double. A year later, Häfner led the Dresdner after a 2nd place in the NOFV Oberliga in the Bundesliga , but was dismissed immediately after the end of the season because of allegedly insufficient performance. A little later he was entrusted with managerial duties at Dynamo, but left Dresden for good in the summer of 1993 and took over the coaching position at Chemnitzer FC in the 2nd Bundesliga . Häfner was able to keep the club in the 2nd Bundesliga for two years. When Chemnitzer FC was in danger of relegation in the spring of 1996, Häfner was dismissed four game days before the end of the season, after which the team was relegated anyway. After intermediate positions at the lower-class clubs 1. FC Sonneberg and SSV Erfurt-Nord , Häfner took over as coach in July 2000 at Halleschen FC , which had been promoted to the Oberliga Nordost. In 2001, Häfner went back to the Association League with the HFC and was officially adopted in May 2002. Häfner later suffered from alcohol addiction and depression and underwent a withdrawal treatment. In 2009, Häfner became a coach at the eight division club SV Grün-Weiß in Langeneichstädt . Since summer 2011 he has been a coach at 1. FC Radebeul, which plays in the Meißen regional league. After a long illness Reinhard Haefner died of on October 24, 2016 of cancer .

successes

The mourning of the fans over Häfner's death.

As a player

  • 1970 UEFA youth tournament won
  • GDR champion 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978
  • GDR cup winners 1977, 1982, 1984, 1985
  • Olympic champion 1976

As a trainer

  • GDR champion 1990
  • GDR cup winner 1990

literature

Web links

Commons : Reinhard Häfner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sven Geisler, Tino Meyer, Daniel Klein and Jochen Mayer: Dynamo has shaped his life. In: Saxon newspaper . October 24, 2016, accessed April 11, 2018 .
  2. ↑ https://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/sport/article203124980/Haefner-haette-einfach-nur-geradeaus-iegen-muessen.html
  3. ↑ 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).
  4. ↑ Marco Mach: Häfner new trainer in Radebeul. In: Saxon newspaper . July 8, 2011, accessed April 11, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Häfner, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Sonneberg
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 2016