Heinz-Dieter Hasebrink (28 August 1941 – 17 January 2023) was a German professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who played as a

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Career

Born in

Essen Essen (; Latin: ''Assindia'') is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and D ...

, Hasebrink played youth football at Rot-Weiss Essen before making his first-team debut in 1961. He scored 18 goals in the 1965–66 season at the end of which Rot-Weiss Essen was promoted to the

Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany's primary footba ...

. He scored the first two Bundesliga goals in the club's history on 27 August 1966. Hasebrink moved to 1. FC Kaiserslautern in 1967 before playing for Werder Bremen from 1969 to 1973. He played in the Bundesliga for both clubs, making 114 appearances and scoring 16 goals for Werder Bremen. Hasebrink joined

Atlas Delmenhorst Atlas Delmenhorst is a German association football club from the city of Delmenhorst, Lower Saxony who play in the fourth-tier Regionalliga Nord. The club, originally formed in a merger in 1973, folded in 2002 after declaring insolvency but was ...

in 1974 and became a fan favourite, helping the club achieve two consecutive promotions: to the

Landesliga The Landesliga ( en, Football State League) is a tier of football in some states of the German football league system. In Bavaria, Saxony, Thuringia, Bremen, Lower Saxony and Hamburg, the Landesligas are set right below the Oberliga and therefore ...

in 1975 and to the Oberliga, the German third tier at the time, in 1976. In the 1975–76 season he scored 27 goals. He amassed a total of 67 goals in 109 appearances for Atlas Delmenhorst.

Personal life and death

Following his retirement from playing In 1978, Hasebrink coached local clubs in the area while working at an insurance agency in Delmenhorst. Hasebrink died on 17 January 2023, at the age of 81.

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* 1941 births 2023 deaths Footballers from Essen German men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Bundesliga players SV Werder Bremen players Rot-Weiss Essen players 1. FC Kaiserslautern players Atlas Delmenhorst players West German men's footballers {{Germany-footy-midfielder-1940s-stub