Andreas Trautmann is a German former footballer who played as a midfielder

Midfielder

A midfielder is an association football position. Some midfielders play a more defensive role, while others blur the boundaries between midfielders and forwards. The number of midfielders a team uses during a match may vary, depending on the team's formation and each individual player's role...

. Trautmann spent much of his career with Dynamo Dresden

Dynamo Dresden

SG Dynamo Dresden are a German association football club, based in Dresden, Saxony. They were founded in 1950, as a club affiliated with the East German police, and became one of the most popular and successful clubs in East German football, winning eight league titles...

, for whom he played 270 games in the DDR-Oberliga

DDR-Oberliga

The DDR-Oberliga was, prior to German reunification in 1990, the elite level of football competition in the DDR , being roughly equivalent to the Oberliga or Bundesliga in West Germany.-Overview:Following World...

 (the third most for the club, behind Hans-Jürgen Dörner

Hans-Jürgen Dörner

Hans-Jürgen „Dixie“ Dörner is a former German football player and who now coaches. He distinguished himself during his career by being named East Germany's player of the year three times - the only East German player to do this besides goalkeeper Jürgen Croy.Dörner's playing career began in 1960...

 and Reinhard Häfner

Reinhard Häfner

Reinhard Häfner was a German footballer who now works as a football coach.Häfner played children's and youth football for his hometown club BSG Motor Sonneberg. As a junior player he was assigned to FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt before joining Dynamo Dresden in 1971...

, respectively). During this time he earned fourteen caps for East Germany

East Germany national football team

The East Germany national football team was from 1952 to 1990 the football team of East Germany, playing as one of three post-war German teams, along with Saarland and West Germany....

, and won the silver medal at the 1980 Olympics

Football at the 1980 Summer Olympics

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. After reunification

German reunification

German reunification was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany , and when Berlin reunited into a single city, as provided by its then Grundgesetz constitution Article 23. The start of this process is commonly referred by Germans as die...

, Trautmann moved west, joining Fortuna Köln alongside teammates Matthias Döschner

Matthias Döschner

Matthias Döschner is a German former footballer. He spent much of his career with Dynamo Dresden, playing over 250 DDR-Oberliga games. He also won 40 caps for East Germany.-External links:**...

 and Hans-Uwe Pilz

Hans-Uwe Pilz

Hans-Uwe Pilz is a German former footballer. He began his career with BSG Sachsenring Zwickau before joining Dynamo Dresden in 1982. He remained at Dynamo until German reunification when he moved west, following teammates Matthias Döschner and Andreas Trautmann to Fortuna Köln...

, but it did not work out, and he was back at Dynamo Dresden within six months. He played out his career across town with Dresdner SC

Dresdner SC

Dresdner SC is a German multisport club playing in Dresden, Saxony. Founded on 30 April 1898, the club was a founding member of the German Football Association in 1900...

, before retiring in 1994.

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