Wolf-Rüdiger Netz (born 15 December 1950 in Schwerin) is a former football player from East Germany.
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![]() Wolf-Rüdiger Netz (center) during a match between BFC Dynamo and 1. FC Magdeburg on 7 December 1975 in the FDGB-Pokal. | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | (1950-12-15) 15 December 1950 (age 71) | |||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Schwerin, East Germany | |||||||||||||||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Forward | |||||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||||
1958–1968 | SG Dynamo Schwerin | |||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
1968–1971 | SG Dynamo Schwerin | 48 | (15) | |||||||||||||
1971–1973 | BFC Dynamo | 40 | (11) | |||||||||||||
1971–1973 | BFC Dynamo II | 9 | (9) | |||||||||||||
1973–1974 | SG Dynamo Schwerin | 6 | (2) | |||||||||||||
1974–1984 | BFC Dynamo | 225 | (101) | |||||||||||||
1974–1975 | BFC Dynamo II | 4 | (1) | |||||||||||||
National team | ||||||||||||||||
1972–1973 | East Germany U18 | 3 | (0) | |||||||||||||
1976-1977 | East Germany B | 2 | (0) | |||||||||||||
1978–1981 | East Germany | 2 | (0) | |||||||||||||
1979–1980 | East Germany Olympic | 11 | (5) | |||||||||||||
Honours
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Netz began playing football at SG Dynamo Schwerin when he was eight years old and made his professional debut with SG Dynamo Schwerin in the DDR-Liga in the 1968-69 season. Netz joined BFC Dynamo during the summer of 1971. He became five times East German champion in a row with BFC Dynamo.
Netz won the silver medal with the East German Olympic team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Together with his teammates, he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze the same year. The forward also won two caps for the East German national team.[1]
Netz scored 112 goals in 265 league matches for the record champion BFC Dynamo.[2] Nobody scored more goals for die Weinroten in the top division of East German football. Only Hans-Jürgen Riediger also managed to amass a three-digit number of goals for BFC Dynamo.
East Germany football squad – 1980 Summer Olympics – Silver medalists | ||
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