Norbert Trieloff (born 24 August 1957 in

Rostock Rostock (), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (german: link=no, Hanse- und Universitätsstadt Rostock), is the largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the state, c ...

) is a German former football player. Trieloff began playing football for the youth teams of SG Dynamo Rostock-Mitte in 1967. He first played as a goalkeeper, before he switched to defence. Trieloff proved to be a talented player. He was transferred to the

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BFC Dynamo Berliner Fussball Club Dynamo e. V., commonly abbreviated to BFC Dynamo () or BFC (), alternatively sometimes called Dynamo Berlin, is a German football club based in the locality of Alt-Hohenschönhausen of the borough of Lichtenberg of Berli ...

at the age of 14 and enrolled in the elite Children and Youth

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(KJS) "Werner Seelenbinder" in

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. Trieloff made his debut for the first team of BFC Dynamo at barely 17-years-old against BSG Wismut Aue in the 11th matchday of the 1974-75 DDR-Oberliga on 29 November 1974. He was a regular player for BFC Dynamo from the 1977-78 season. Trieloff scored the winning goal for BFC Dynamo in the match against SG Dynamo Dresden in the last matchday of the 1979-80 DDR-Oberliga. BFC Dynamo was one point behind leading SG Dynamo Dresden before the match. The match was played in front of 30,000 spectators at the

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on 10 May 1980. The score was 0-0 in the second half. Trieloff then made it 1-0 to BFC Dyamo on a pass from

Hartmut Pelka Hartmut Pelka (11 March 1957 – 23 July 2014) was a German footballer who played for BSG Chemie Leipzig and BFC Dynamo in DDR-Oberliga. Career Born in Hohenmölsen, Pelka began to play football for the youth teams of BSG Aktivist Großgrimm ...

in 77th minute. BFC Dynamo eventually won the match 1-0 and thus captured the league title. Trieloff became East German football champion nine times in a row with BFC Dynamo, under coach

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. Trieloff played in 4 matches in the

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and 31 matches in the

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for BFC Dynamo. He scored the decisive goal for BFC Dynamo, after two saves by the goalkeeper of BFC Dynamo

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, in the

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between BFC Dynamo and

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in front of 26,000 spectators at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in the first round of the 1984-85 European Cup on 3 October 1984. Trieloff was transferred to

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in November 1987. He played his first match for 1. FC Union Berlin in the 11th matchday of the 1987-88 DDR-Oberliga against

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at the

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on 21 November 1987. Trieloff played 35 matches for 1. FC Union Berlin in the DDR-Oberliga until the end of the 1988-89 season. Trieloff represented

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18 times between 1980 and 1984. He won the silver medal at the

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with the East German Olympic team. Trieloff was awarded the

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in bronze the same year, together with his teammates. Trieloff completed three and a half years of training as a

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after

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and started his own business in

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in 1996. Fans of BFC Dynamo once named a fan club after Norbert Trieloff. He is an institution among football fans and still receives requests for autographs.

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Norbert Trieloff
Olympic athlete profile at Sports-Reference.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Trieloff, Norbert 1957 births Living people Sportspeople from Rostock People from Bezirk Rostock German footballers East German footballers Footballers from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania East Germany international footballers Footballers at the 1980 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers of East Germany Berliner FC Dynamo players Olympic medalists in football DDR-Oberliga players Association football defenders Olympic silver medalists for East Germany Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze