Heiner Baltes

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Heiner Baltes
Personnel
birthday August 19, 1949
place of birth Erkrath-Unterbach ,  Germany
size 180 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
0000-1967 SC Unterbach
1967-1968 Fortuna Dusseldorf
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1968-1970 Fortuna Düsseldorf (Am.)
1970-1981 Fortuna Dusseldorf 281 (11)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1971-1974 Germany amateurs 23 0(0)
1972-1973 Germany U-23 3 0(0)
1972-1975 Germany B 2 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Heiner Baltes (born August 19, 1949 in Erkrath-Unterbach ) is a former German football player . The defender played 279 games for Fortuna Düsseldorf in the Bundesliga from 1971 to 1981 , scoring eleven goals. In total, Baltes played 23 times for the German national soccer team of amateurs . In 1972 and 1975 he was twice in the B-Elf , and in 1972 and 1973 three times in the junior national team U-23 of the DFB.

career

As an A-youth of SC Unterbach, Heiner Baltes moved to Fortuna Düsseldorf in 1967. As a player in the amateur team, he made his debut in 1970/71 in the regional football league West and came to two league appearances in the championship season of Fortuna. In the successful promotion round to the Bundesliga, he was active in three games. In his first year in the Bundesliga, 1971/72, he completed all 34 rounds under coach Heinz Lucas and scored alongside teammates Reiner Geye , Dieter Herzog , Egon Köhnen , Werner Lungwitz , Werner Kriegler , Klaus Budde and Fred Hesse four goals. In the second and third year in the Bundesliga, 1973 and 1974, Fortuna achieved third place, the best placement. With Gerd Zewe and Wolfgang Seel , other top performers had joined the team.

Baltes officially played as an amateur at the beginning so that he could take part in the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich . He made his debut in the amateur national team on September 7, 1971 in Munich against Bulgaria under the then DFB coach Jupp Derwall . At the 1972 Olympic Games, he played all six games for the German team. Baltes played his 23rd and last international match for the amateur team on March 13, 1974 in Bielefeld in a 3-1 win against England. With this success, the German amateur national team qualified for the UEFA Amateur Cup held in Rijeka , which the team won (together with the Yugoslav team).

Baltes was a regular at Fortuna Düsseldorf throughout his career. From 1975/76 to 1979/80 the tough defender missed only one Bundesliga game in five rounds in a row. That happened under the coaches Sepp Piontek (until April 14, 1976), Manfred Krafft (interim), Dietrich Weise (1976-78), Hans-Dieter Tipphauer (1978-79) and Otto Rehhagel . He experienced his greatest successes with Fortuna in the DFB Cup and European Cup. First he lost on April 15, 1978 after the first entry into the final, the final with 0-2 goals against 1. FC Cologne. But he won the DFB Cup twice with Fortuna in 1979 and 1980 . He was also in the 1979 final of the European Cup Winners' Cup , which his team lost to FC Barcelona . The reliable defensive player had all nine games against Craiova. Denied Aberdeen, Geneva and Ostrava. Baltes had his last two appearances in the European Cup in the 1980/81 series, when he was again on the ball in the quarter-finals in the two games against Benfica Lisbon (2: 2/0: 1) in March 1981.

With the game on March 21, 1981 at Bayer 04 Leverkusen - he was substituted in the 33rd minute due to an injury - Heiner Baltes ended his career after a total of 279 appearances in the Bundesliga and scoring 11 goals.

statistics

  • Bundesliga (279 games / 11 goals)
  • Regionalliga (2 games / 0 goals)
  • DFB-Pokal (41 games / 2 goals)
  • European Cup (25 games / 0 goals)

literature

  • Michael Bolten, Marco Langer: "Everything else is just football". The story of Fortuna Düsseldorf. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2005. ISBN 978-3-89533-711-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Baltes, Heiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Erkrath-Unterbach , Germany