Manfred Kaltz

Manfred Kaltz
Manfred Kaltz, 2016
Personnel
birthday	January 6, 1953
place of birth	Ludwigshafen am Rhein ,  Germany
size	184 cm
position	Defense
Juniors
Years	station
1960-1968	VfL Neuhofen
1968-1970	TuS Altrip
1970-1971	Hamburger SV
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1971-1989	Hamburger SV	568 (76)
1989	Girondins Bordeaux	1 0(0)
1989-1990	FC Mulhouse	12 0(1)
1990-1991	Hamburger SV	13 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1972	Germany amateurs	7 0(0)
1972-1973	Germany U-23	2 0(0)
1974-1975	Germany B	3 0(0)
1975-1983	Germany	69 0(8)
1 Only league games are given.

Manfred "Manni" Kaltz (born January 6, 1953 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a former German soccer player . Between 1971 and 1991, the full-back played 581 Bundesliga games for Hamburger SV and 69 international matches for the German national team , with which he became European champion in 1980 . He was also known for his " banana flanks ".

youth

Kaltz started playing football at VfL Neuhofen when he was eleven . He went through all DFB youth teams up to the A youth national player. In 1970 he became German A youth runner-up with the TuS Altrip . With his coach Gerhard Heid at the time , he then moved to Hamburger SV, where he initially completed another year in the A-youth.

Bundesliga

In the Bundesliga he played 568 Bundesliga games for Hamburger SV from August 20, 1971 to June 7, 1989. After HSV had not offered him a long-term contract, he left the club after 18 years and moved to Girondins Bordeaux ; there he played a season for Bordeaux and FC Mulhouse in the French Division 1 before returning to HSV. On September 8, 1990, he celebrated his return to HSV in the home game against Mönchengladbach under coach Gerd-Volker Schock . In the further course of the season he made only 13 games, but was part of the team that moved into the 1991 UEFA Cup competition. With a total of 581 Bundesliga appearances exclusively for HSV, Kaltz ended his Bundesliga career after 19 years.

Kaltz 'footprint on the "walk of fame" in front of the Volksparkstadion

Because he scored 53 of his 76 goals from the penalty spot , Kaltz acquired the reputation of a penalty specialist (seven misses). With six goals, like Nikolče Noveski , he scored the most own goals in the Bundesliga. To this day, he is the record player for Hamburg and the Bundesliga player with the second most games . He is also regarded as the most successful player in the history of HSV, with whom he the DFB League Cup in 1972/73 , the 1975/76 German Cup and 1987 won, 1977 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and 1979 , 1982 and 1983 German Champion was. Kaltz celebrated his greatest triumph when he won the European Champion's Cup with HSV in 1983 .

Kaltz played an attacking right defender and walked long distances. His notorious banana flanks often found a grateful buyer in Horst Hrubesch . This successful Hamburg team also took part in the 1982 World Cup in Spain .

National team

In 1972 Kaltz was nominated for the Olympic Games in Munich , where he was used for the German national soccer team of amateurs in the intermediate round match against Mexico. In the German national team, Kaltz was active from 1975 to 1983. His first appearance for the DFB selection was on September 3, 1975. In the 2-0 win in Vienna against Austria , Kaltz was immediately in the starting line-up. He made 69 international appearances and scored eight goals . Kaltz scored his first goal for the national team on October 8, 1977, when he scored the 1-0 opening goal in a 2-1 win at the Berlin Olympic Stadium against Italy . After the game, Italy's national coach Enzo Bearzot attested him “absolute world class”. Kaltz took part in the World Cup in Argentina in 1978 and in Spain in 1982 . The attempt to use Kaltz as libero for the previously retired Franz Beckenbauer at the World Cup in Argentina failed, which contributed to the elimination of the German team in the second round. At the European Championships in 1980 he won the title with Germany . For this he received the silver bay leaf from Federal President Carstens.

In the vice world championship eleven of 1982 he wore the captain's armband for a while during Karl-Heinz Rummenigge's injury-related break in the second round and in the semifinals.

In 1983, after a 1-0 defeat against Portugal and a total of 69 senior internationals, Manfred Kaltz resigned as a national player. He gave personal differences with national coach Jupp Derwall as the reason. Among other things, Kaltz did not agree with the tactical orientation of the national team under Derwall and had criticized this several times.

Kaltz was one of the national players who often played without shin guards and with socks rolled down. This fashion was banned by FIFA a few years later .

After the active career

Manni Kaltz, football school on Weißenhäuser Strand 2017

Later, Kaltz worked as co-trainer in various clubs (including 2000/01 at Eintracht Frankfurt ).

Kaltz has been running and directing the Manfred Kaltz soccer school for young footballers in the greater Hamburg area since 2002. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Youth Football Foundation. In addition to Kaltz, the foundation was founded in 2000 by Jürgen Klinsmann and other successful national players as well as the lecturers of the football teacher special course. In addition, Kaltz has been a representative of the sports and event marketing agency EIBA communication since 2009.

Manfred Kaltz has been a coach at the VfL Bochum football school since January 2014 .

Web links

• Manfred Kaltz in the database of weltfussball.de
• Manfred Kaltz in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Manfred Kaltz in the database of the German Football Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Meaningful and meaningless (half) knowledge about football.
2. ↑ Der Spiegel (Ed.): Run quite well. No. 43, October 17, 1977, p. 228 (article also available online )
3. ↑ Federal Archives: Sports Awards (Silver Laurel): Awarding of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the German National Football Team (European Championship 1980), signature BArch B 122/29165