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 Häfner withDresden in 1990 | |||
| Personal information | |||
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| Date of birth | (1952-02-02)2 February 1952 | ||
| Place of birth | Sonneberg,East Germany | ||
| Date of death | 24 October 2016(2016-10-24) (aged 64) | ||
| Place of death | Dresden, Germany | ||
| Position | 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 Germanfootball player and coach.
Häfner played children's and youth football for his hometown club BSG Motor Sonneberg. As a junior player he was assigned toRot-Weiß Erfurt before joiningDynamo Dresden in 1971. He stayed with the Dresden club until his retirement as a player in 1988 having played in 366 East German first divisionDDR-Oberliga matches, scoring 49 goals. He is second toHans-Jürgen Dörner in matches played for Dynamo. Häfner was part of four DDR championship andFDGB Pokal (East German Cup) winning teams there.
Between 1971 and 1984 he was capped 58 times for theEast Germany national team, scoring 5 goals, and was part of the gold medal-winning squad at the1976 Summer Olympics inMontreal, Canada.[1]
In April 1990, two years after his retirement as a player, Häfner became head coach of Dynamo Dresden, replacingEduard Geyer. Weeks later Dynamo claimed its eighth championship and seventh cup. The following season, despite the sale of star playersUlf Kirsten andMatthias 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 thereunification of the country, qualifying the club for the first divisionBundesliga. Despite this success he was dismissed in June 1991. He moved on to coach second division clubChemnitzer FC from 1993 to 1996.
Häfner joined SV Grün-Weiß Langeneichstädt (Kreisliga Merseburg/Querfurt, Sachsen-Anhalt) in the post-season of 2006–07.
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