Horst Blankenburg

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Horst Blankenburg
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Horst Blankenburg, 1972
Personnel
birthday July 10, 1947
place of birth Heidenheim an der Brenz ,  Germany
size 181 cm
position defender
Juniors
Years station
VfL Heidenheim
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1967-1968 1. FC Nuremberg 0 (0)
1968-1969 Viennese sports club 27 (0)
1969-1970 TSV 1860 Munich 45 (1)
1970-1975 Ajax Amsterdam 136 (3)
1975-1977 Hamburger SV 44 (0)
1977-1988 Neuchâtel Xamax 13 (0)
1978-1979 Chicago Sting 30 (0)
1979-1980 KSC Hasselt 10 (0)
1980 Chicago Sting 8 (0)
1980-1982 Prussia Munster 22 (0)
1982-1983 Hummelsbütteler SV ? (?)
1985 Lueneburg SK 12 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1985-1986 Lueneburg SK
1987 SV Atlas Delmenhorst
1 Only league games are given.

Horst Blankenburg (born July 10, 1947 in Heidenheim an der Brenz ) is a former German football player . He celebrated his greatest successes in the early 1970s when he won the European Cup three times in a row with Ajax Amsterdam as well as the national championship and the Dutch cup twice. With Hamburger SV he won the DFB Cup in 1976 and the European Cup Winners ' Cup in 1977 .

Career

Career start

Blankenburg originally played for VfL Heidenheim . He began his professional career in the 1967/68 season under Max Merkel at 1. FC Nürnberg . In its first season, the team became German champions. Blankenburg was only used 13 times during the entire season and did not play a single Bundesliga game. He then moved to the Wiener Sport-Club for a transfer fee of 45,000 DM , where he was Austrian runner-up with the team. In 1969 he moved to TSV 1860 Munich for a transfer fee of 100,000 DM . There he completed 31 Bundesliga appearances and scored one goal. At the end of the season, his club was relegated.

Change to Amsterdam

Blankenburg moved to Ajax Amsterdam six months later , where he replaced Velibor Vasovic , who ended his playing career at the end of the 1970/71 season due to health problems. He was in the squad for a total of five years and won the European Cup three times in a row from 1971 to 1973 . With Ajax, Blankenburg was national champion in 1972 and 1973 and cup winner in 1971 and 1972. As a defensive player, he took part in all the finals, but in the final of 1971 he was only substituted at half time. In 1972 he was part of the team that won the international triple after the national championship with the UEFA Super Cup and the World Cup .

In Amsterdam Blankenburg played in a team with Johan Cruyff , Johan Neeskens , Ruud Krol and Arie Haan . His coaches were Rinus Michels and Ștefan Kovács . Hennes Weisweiler judged him as the football player who came closest to his ideal of a libero. In the German national team , however, Franz Beckenbauer occupied this position at this time. Blankenburg was therefore never called up to the national team.

Return to the Bundesliga and end of career

In 1975 Blankenburg moved to Hamburger SV in the Bundesliga . With HSV under coach Kuno Klötzer he won the DFB Cup in 1975/76 and in 1977 the European Cup Winners' Cup . He was not used in the final against RSC Anderlecht . However, Blankenburg could not prevail permanently at HSV. In his second season he only made 13 appearances in the Bundesliga. He then moved to Neuchâtel Xamax in Switzerland . With Chicago Sting , KSC Hasselt and 1980 with Preußen Münster in the 2nd Bundesliga North and the Oberliga Westfalen he ended his career as a professional football player.

Amateur and coach

In 1982 Blankenburg joined the Hummelsbütteler SV in Hamburg in the amateur field , where he played with his former teammate Georg Volkert . In the second half of the 1984/85 season he completed twelve games for the Lüneburger SK in the Oberliga Nord before ending his active career. From July 1, 1985, he was the coach of the Lueneburgers. After eight games without a win in a row, he had to hand over his position to his successor Rainer Zobel in March 1986 , who was still able to lead the LSK to keep up. From July 1987 Blankenburg coached the upper division SV Atlas Delmenhorst . After the first ten games of the season were lost, Blankenburg had to vacate his place in the coaching bench after only three months.

useful information

  • The former Ajax player opened the “Hamburger Bierbrunnen” bar back in 1976.
  • Today Blankenburg lives with his second wife Marisa in Fuengirola on the Spanish south coast
  • Although he had never played for the German national team, Blankenburg was appointed to the European football team in 1973 .
  • On the initiative of his teammates Johan Cruyff and Arie Haan, Blankenburg was to be naturalized in the Netherlands shortly before the 1974 World Cup. According to his own statements, he screwed up his naturalization test when asked about the Dutch national anthem.
  • A bridge was named after him in the Watergraafsmeer district of Amsterdam .

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ North American Soccer League Players on nasljerseys.com
  2. ↑ Blankenburg near Münster ( memento of July 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) of October 20, 1980 in the Hamburger Abendblatt / No. 245
  3. ^ German Sports Club for Football Statistics eV (Ed.): Northern Chronicle: The Amateur Oberliga Nord 1984–1989 . 2004, p. 72-73 .
  4. ^ German Sports Club for Football Statistics eV (Ed.): Northern Chronicle: The Amateur Oberliga Nord 1984–1989 . 2004, p. 144-145 .
  5. ^ “Cruijff could do everything” - Interview with Blankenburg on rund-magazin.de
  6. ↑ "Heidenheim's best kicker - a great HSVer" . In: HSV Fußball AG (Ed.): HSV Live - Official Magazine . Issue # 2, season 2018/19. Hamburg August 28, 2018, p. 59 .
  7. ↑ a b Great honor for an almost forgotten soccer hero from April 24, 2005 on welt.de
  8. ↑ "Heidenheim's best kicker - a great HSVer" . In: HSV Fußball AG (Ed.): HSV Live - Official Magazine . Issue # 2, season 2018/19. Hamburg August 28, 2018, p. 57 f .
personal data
SURNAME Blankenburg, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidenheim an der Brenz