Dustin Heun (born 11 April 1984) is a German former professional

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who played as a

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. Dustin's father,

Dirk Heun Dirk Heun (born 4 January 1953) is a German former footballer who played as a midfielder. Heun made ten appearances for Tennis Borussia Berlin during the 1976–77 Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bund ...

, was also a professional footballer and made 10 appearances 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 ...

Playing career

Heun, whose father

was active as a professional footballer for

Tennis Borussia Berlin Tennis Borussia Berlin is a German football club based in the locality of Westend in Berlin. History The team was founded in 1902 as ''Berliner Tennis- und Ping-Pong-Gesellschaft Borussia'' taking its name from its origins as a tennis and ...

and

Rot-Weiß Oberhausen Rot-Weiß Oberhausen is a German association football club in Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club was formed as ''Oberhausener SV'' in December 1904 out of the merger of ''Emschertaler SV'' (1902) and the football enthusiasts of ''Oberh ...

, was born in

Duisburg Duisburg (; , ) is a city in the Ruhr metropolitan area of the western States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Lying on the confluence of the Rhine (Lower Rhine) and the Ruhr (river), Ruhr rivers in the center of the Rhine-Ruh ...

. He started his professional career with

KFC Uerdingen 05 KFC Uerdingen 05 was a German football club in the Uerdingen district of the city of Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia. The former Bundesliga side, which had its greatest successes in the 1980s, plays in the fourth-level Regionalliga. In 2025, th ...

. In his first

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season in 2002–03 he scored two goals in seven games. After two more years at the KFC and 14 goals in 57 games, he moved to the 2. Bundesliga club

Eintracht Braunschweig Braunschweiger Turn- und Sportverein Eintracht von 1895 e.V., commonly known as Eintracht Braunschweig () or BTSV (), is a German football and sports club based in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony. They compete in the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier o ...

after KFC was relegated. He was used 23 times in his first season, mostly as a substituter for a few minutes. In the 2006–07 season he moved to

club

VfB Lübeck VfB Lübeck is a German association football club playing in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, in the country's north. It is most known for reaching the semifinals of the German Cup in the 2003/2004 season. They played in the 2. Bundesliga from 199 ...

shortly before the end of the 2006 summer transfer market. Heun immediately became a regular player, scoring 12 goals in his first season. In addition, he scored the winning goal in the

DFB Cup 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 ...

against

TSV 1860 Munich , commonly known as TSV 1860 München (; ''sechzig'' locally ; lettered as ) or 1860 Munich, is a sports club based in Munich. The club's association football, football team plays in the 3. Liga, the third tier of German football league system ...

. During the winter break of 2007–08, Heun moved from Lübeck to league rivals

1. FC Union Berlin 1. Fußballclub Union Berlin e. V., commonly known as Union Berlin (), is a professional German football club based in Berlin. The club's origins can be traced to 1906, when its predecessor FC Olympia Oberschöneweide was founded. During the Co ...

, where he initially had a promising start (with three goals in six games), but then failed due to injury for the rest of the second half of the season. In the rehabilitation phase, an appendix operation threw him back in June 2008. In September 2008 Heun was able to resume training with the third division team after a break of more than six months. On 18 March 2009, he celebrated his comeback game - after almost exactly a year break - against

SV Wacker Burghausen SV Wacker Burghausen is a German football club based in Burghausen, Bavaria and is part of one of the nation's largest sports clubs with some 6,000 members participating in two dozen different sports. History The club was founded on 13 Novemb ...

. In May 2009 the sports management of 1. FC Union announced that the contract with Heun would end on 30 June 2009 and wouldn't be extended as originally planned. In the 2009–10 season Heun was under contract with the 1. FC Kaiserslautern II. Due to persistent injury concerns, he ended his professional career after the season. From summer 2012 to summer 2013, Heun played amateur football again, joining TSV Geitelde.

Post-playing career

Heun became disabled in sports, completed a two-year retraining course, was an intern for video analysis with Lorenz-Günther Köstner, coach of the 2nd team at

VfL Wolfsburg Verein für Leibesübungen Wolfsburg e. V., commonly known as VfL Wolfsburg (), is a German professional sports club based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony. The club grew out of a multi-sports club for Volkswagen workers in the city of Wolfsburg. I ...

, from 2012, and worked as a scout and analyst at VfL U23 from 2015 under

Valérien Ismaël Valérien Alexandre Ismaël (born 28 September 1975) is a French professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of EFL Championship club Blackburn Rovers. A centre-back, Ismaël played for Strasbourg, Crystal Palace, Len ...

and from November 2016 as video analyst for Ismael, who became the coach of the first team. In March 2017, he began working as a scout for VfL Wolfsburg again. In January 2020, he followed Ismaël to Austrian club

LASK Linz Linzer Athletik-Sport-Klub, commonly known as LASK (), or Linzer ASK, is an Austrian professional football club based in Upper-Austrian state capital Linz. It is the oldest football club in that region, and plays in the Austrian Football Bundes ...

, again as a video analyst.DUSTIN HEUN WIRD LASK-VIDEOANALYST
lask.at, 10 January 2020

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Heun, Dustin 1984 births Living people Footballers from Duisburg German men's footballers Men's association football forwards 2. Bundesliga players 3. Liga players Regionalliga players KFC Uerdingen 05 players Eintracht Braunschweig players VfB Lübeck players 1. FC Union Berlin players 21st-century German sportsmen