Hans-Günter Neues (14 November 1950 – 16 November 2016) was a German
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
player and coach. As a player, he spent nine seasons in the
Bundesliga
The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany and the highest level of the German football league system. The Bundesliga comprises 18 teams ...
with
SC Fortuna Köln
SC Fortuna Köln is a German association football club based in the city of Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia.
History
The club was formed as on 21 February 1948 through the merger of three local sides: Victoria Köln 1911 (one of two clubs to ...
,
Rot-Weiss Essen
Rot-Weiss Essen is a German association football club based in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club plays in the 3. Liga, at the Stadion an der Hafenstraße.
The team won the DFB-Pokal in 1953, and the German championship in 1955. The latt ...
and
1. FC Kaiserslautern
1. Fußball-Club Kaiserslautern e. V., also known as 1. FCK, FCK (), FC Kaiserslautern (), K'lautern or colloquially Lautern (), is a German sports club based in Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate. In addition to Association football, football ...
. In 1983, he played with the
Toronto Nationals of the
Canadian Professional Soccer League. He died of cancer in 2016.
Honours
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DFB-Pokal
The DFB-Pokal (), also known as the German Cup in English language, English, is a German knockout Association football, football cup competition held annually by the German Football Association (DFB). Sixty-four teams participate in the competiti ...
finalist:
1980–81
References
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1950 births
2016 deaths
German men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Bundesliga players
2. Bundesliga players
Canadian Professional Soccer League (original) players
SC Fortuna Köln players
Rot-Weiss Essen players
1. FC Kaiserslautern players
Toronto Nationals (soccer) players
German football managers
West German men's footballers
People from Rhein-Kreis Neuss
Footballers from Düsseldorf (region)
West German expatriate men's footballers
West German football managers
West German expatriate sportspeople in Canada
Expatriate men's soccer players in Canada
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