Hans Jürgen Riediger (born 20 December 1955) is a former footballer from East Germany. Riediger played for

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, scoring 105 goals / 196

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matches. He participated in

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and received the gold medal.

Career

Born in Finsterwalde, Riediger began playing football at BSG Traktor Sonnewalde in 1964, played for BSG Motor Finsterwalde Süd from 1965 to 1970, and joined the youth academy of

in August 1970. The striker came to prominence with 34 matches for the East German Junior team. He participated in XXVI.UEFA Turnire 1973. He scored goals for East Germany in the semi-final and the final. East Germany eventually lost the final 3–2 a.e.t. to England at the Stadio Comunale and received the silver medal. Riediger made his first appearance for

with the senior squad of

on 20 June 1973 (the penultimate matchday of the season 1972–73, away match against

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under the trainer Günter Schröter), and the next and last matchday of the season, on 23 June 1973, he scored twice (37min. 2–0 and 39 min. 3–0) against Wismut Aue in Sportpark. He was promoted to the senior squad of

in the summer of 1973. Riediger made his debut for the East Germany national team against Bulgaria on 26 March 1975　in Berlin

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under the trainer Georg Büchner, playing on snow for 90 minutes.　His first goal came on 31 July 1975, a friendly match with Canada in Ottawa (28min. 2–0). Riediger participated in the

in Montreal with experienced teammates Jürgen Croy, Hans-Jürgen Dörner, Reinhard Häfner,

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et al. He played three matches there including the final 31 July 1976 and scored at the quarter-finals 25 July 1976 against France. Riediger and teammates beat the defending champion Poland with 3–1 in raining Olympic Stadium and won the gold medal. Then he won the silver medal at

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under the trainer Dr. Rudolf Krause, scoring at the second leg of the final against Yugoslavia (14min. 3–1) in Bijeli Brijeg Stadium, Mostar. With his numerous goals he was heavily involved in the five

won by BFC Dynamo between 1979 and 1983. Altogether, Riediger made 193 top level appearances and scored 105 goals. Despite his outstanding goal ratio he never became top scorer of the top level league in East Germany. Mainly because there was

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. Neverless, Riediger became second placed league top goal scorer in the successful 1978–79 season with 20 goals. The season saw

winning their first

. For European Cup's, he played 17 matches and scored 10 goals for

in total, including goals against Crvena zvezda (a hat trick), Peter Shilton's Nottingham Forest F.C., Michel Platini's

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and Hamburger SV. The 1982–83 season was his last season and at the same time also his strongest. Riediger scored 16 goals in the first 15 league matches. However, he badly hurt his knee, which meant that both the season and his career were prematurely terminated. Riediger finished as the third best goalscorer of the 1982-83 DDR-Oberliga, despite only being able to play 15 matches before his injury. The best goalscorer, Joachim Streich of 1. FC Magdeburg, scored 19 goals in 25 matches. Riediger was registered to Jürgen Bogs's 1983–84 squad but could never play again. Riediger made 41 international appearances for the East Germany national football team and scored six goals in total. He, together with Lothar Kurbjuweit and Hartmut Schade, officially retired from the national team on 20 October 1984, award presentation was held before the match between East Germany and Yugoslavia. After his career ended, Riediger worked as a youth coach at

. In addition, he was also coach of the local clubs TSG Fredersdorf and FSV Eintracht 1910 Königs Wusterhausen. His son Marcel Riediger is also a football player. Amongst other clubs, he has played for

and Hallescher FC. Ridiger's chant sung by the opponents was "der Riediger, der Riediger, der ist ein selbst befriediger".

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