As one of the leading clubs in

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provided 36 East German internationals, including the country's second most-capped player, Hans-Jürgen Dörner, and its joint second top scorer,

Hans-Jürgen Kreische Hans-Jürgen "Hansi" Kreische (born 19 July 1947) is a former East German footballer. Career Club career Kreische spent his entire career with his hometown club, Dynamo Dresden, scoring 127 goals in 234 DDR-Oberliga games between 1964 and 1978 ...

. Kreische and Siegmar Wätzlich were in East Germany's squad for their only

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appearance (

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), while twelve Dynamo players won Olympic medals, including six gold medallists in

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. After

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a number of Dynamo players went on to represent the Germany national team, including Jens Jeremies,

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, Olaf Marschall and Alexander Zickler. Dynamo have also seen internationals from other nations, including

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(

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and

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), the

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( Ivo Ulich and Tomas Votava),

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(

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and Miran Pavlin) and

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( Johnny Ekström). Five Dynamo Dresden players were named

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: Hans-Jürgen Dörner, Hans-Jürgen Kreische, Andreas Trautmann, Ulf Kirsten and

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. Dörner won the award three times, and the latter three players were its last three winners. Kreische and Gütschow were the leading scorers in the

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seven times between them. Perhaps the most notable

player is

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. He played for the club from 1985 to 1990, during which he won 23 caps for East Germany. He later made 51 appearances for Germany, winning the

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and played at club level for

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and

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. With the latter he won two German titles, the

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and the Intercontinental Cup, and was named

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in 1996. This list covers players who have played 40 or more matches for

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, except statistics for the lower levels of East German football are hard to find, so this period is not covered.

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