Heinz van Haaren

Heinz van Haaren (1968)

Heinz van Haaren (born June 3, 1940 in Marl ) is a former Dutch soccer player who won the DFB Cup with FC Schalke 04 in 1972 .

Career

TSV Marl-Hüls, 1960–1964

From the youth department of VfL Drewer via SpVg Marl , the 20-year-old Heinz moved in 1960 to the promoted team in the Oberliga West , TSV Marl-Hüls. In his first league year 1960/61 he came to 29 games and two goals. At the end of the league era in 1963, he had played 82 games for Marl-Hüls in three years and scored eight goals. In the 1962/63 season , Rudi Gutendorf made a stop at the Jahnstadion, but his TSV protégés only made 16th place. But Gutendorf got the chance in 1963/64 to work as a coach with Meidericher SV at the start of the new Bundesliga .

Karl-Heinz Sell and Christoph Walter , teammates of Heinz van Haaren under the later “Riegel-Rudi”, also made it into the Bundesliga in 1967 with Alemannia Aachen . Van Haaren, equipped with a Dutch passport, stayed in Marl-Hüls for another season. In the first year of the Regionalliga West 1963/64 the left wing runner landed with his comrades on the excellent 4th place. The surprise runner-up in the 1st Bundesliga round, Meidericher SV, then signed the midfielder, who was outstanding in the regional league, for the second year in the upper house of football. His time at TSV was up after four laps.

Meidericher SV / MSV Duisburg, 1964–1968

With coach Hermann Eppenhoff and his teammates Manfred Manglitz , Michael Bella , Hartmut Heidemann , Werner Krämer , Horst Gecks and Carl-Heinz Rühl , he was able to move into the DFB in the 1965/66 season in Meiderich after finishing eighth in the Bundesliga. Cup final 1966. On June 4th, van Haaren and his new team-mates from MSV in Frankfurt / Main faced the hopeful team of promoted FC Bayern Munich . Franz Beckenbauer put his goal to 4: 2 for Bayern the final point in a final that gave the fans of both teams reason to cheer. In the 1967/68 season Gyula Lóránt reigned with a strict coaching hand in Wedau. After the preliminary round, the MSV was in 4th place, tied with the second in the table. Heinz van Haaren played a strong round, in all 34 games he reeled off an immense amount of work and also scored seven goals. Horst Wild , the midfielder who came from Karlsruher SC , and Rainer Budde supported him effectively on the offensive. In the second half of the season, the Lorant squad couldn't quite maintain the level and ended up in seventh place at the end of the season. Heinz van Haaren left in 1968 after four seasons with the "Zebras" with 123 games and 22 goals and moved to FC Schalke 04.

FC Schalke 04, 1968–1972

After the coach change from Günter Brocker to Rudi Gutendorf on November 22, 1968, the path of the "royal blues" went up in the table. Things went even better in the cup competition. Heinz van Haaren's men moved into the final on June 14, 1969 in Frankfurt am Main against Bayern Munich. With his two goals, Gerd Müller won the first Bundesliga title and the DFB Cup in 1968/69 in Munich. At the same time, Schalke qualified for the European Cup 1969/70. Via the stations Shamrock Rovers, IFK Norrköping and Dinamo Zagreb , Schalke made it to the semi-finals, where it ended up against Manchester City . Heinz van Haaren then experienced his best Bundesliga season in 1971/72 with coach Ivica Horvat . Schalke became autumn champions with 28: 6 points, but on the last day of the match FC Bayern won the German championship with a 5-1 home win against the "Knappen" and made Schalke runner-up in 1972. But three days later, "Royal Blue" triumphed. The cup final in Hanover on July 1st against 1. FC Kaiserslautern was won with 5-0 goals . The performance of the director Heinz van Haaren contributed significantly to the success. He ran well and was consistent over the years of his active career. From 1968 to 1972 he played 126 Bundesliga games for Schalke and scored 10 goals.

statement

For goal scorer Klaus Fischer van Haaren was one of the leading personalities of the team: “He was perhaps not the fastest, but he had a lot of calm on the ball and an incredibly good eye.” Klaus Fichtel , the record sweeper, even describes van Haaren as “ secret captain of the team, who was characterized by a tremendous willingness to run. "Ulrich Homann wrote about this:" Heinz van Haaren, the flying Dutchman, a midfield strategist of the highest order, in this time (1965-72) only surpassed in his position by Günter Netzer . "

Bundesliga scandal

Heinz van Haaren was on April 17, 1971 in the "sold 0: 1" against Bielefeld in the Schalke team. Like all the other twelve Schalke players who played, he was banned by the DFB . He moved to Racing Strasbourg together with Reinhard Libuda . However, Heinz van Haaren stated in a newspaper interview in 2009 that his move to Strasbourg had already been made and did not come about in order to avoid a possible suspension by the DFB.

Finale

In 1973 he returned to the Ruhr area and played for a few years at various amateur clubs before he became a youth coach at Schalke 04 in the late 1970s. He won the German championship with the B-youth in 1978. With Wolfram Wuttke , a great talent matured for Schalke in this year. However, football became a hobby. Heinz van Haaren began training as a state-certified masseur and then ran a massage practice in Gelsenkirchen. Son André followed in his footsteps, he worked as a physiotherapist for the Schalke amateurs until he took over his father's practice.

further reading

• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's football. The encyclopedia. Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00857-8 .
• Matthias Kropp: Triumphs in the European Cup. All games of the German clubs since 1955 (= "AGON Sportverlag statistics." Volume 20). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-75-4 .
• Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 6: German Cup history since 1935. Pictures, statistics, stories, constellations. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-146-0 .
• Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 3: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 1. The founding years 1963–1975. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89784-132-0 .
• Hans Dieter Baroth : Boys, Heaven is yours! The history of the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1988, ISBN 3-88474-332-5 .
• Reviersport from January 6, 2009.
• Holger Jenrich (Ed.): Radi, Buffy and a Sputnik. Foreigners in the Bundesliga 1963–1995. Klartext, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-280-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Archive page at www.schalke04.de , accessed on January 4, 2017  
2. ↑ See on this: U. Homann, Ausländer in der Fußball – Bundesliga 1963-1995 .