Ray Baartz

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Ray Baartz
Personnel
birthday March 6, 1947
place of birth Newcastle ,  Australia
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1963 Adamstown Rosebuds
1963-1965 Manchester United 0 0(0)
1966-1974 Sydney Hakoah
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1967-1974 Australia 48 (18)
1 Only league games are given.

Ray Baartz (born March 6, 1947 in Newcastle ) is a former Australian football player .

Life

Ray Baartz first played for the Australian club Adamstown Rosebuds in his youth . When he was 17, his club used connections with Manchester United to send him and his teammate Doug Johns there for three months. Both should gain playing experience at Manchester. While Johns was returning to Australia after three months, Baartz was asked by coach Matt Busby if he wanted to stay with Manchester. The club was so impressed with his footballing skills that he was awarded a two-year contract. After his contract expired, he surprisingly returned to Australia to his old club Adamstown in 1966, but soon moved to Sydney Hakoah for the then record transfer fee of A $ 5600 . By the end of his career in 1974, he scored a total of 211 goals in 236 league games. For the Australian national football team , he also played 48 games in which he scored 19 goals. After a life-threatening injury that he sustained in an international match, Baartz had to end his sporting career in 1974. At the time, he was considered one of the best Australian players.

Following his career as a player, he ran a sporting goods store in Newcastle.

For his services to the sport of Australian football, Ray Baartz was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1985 .

Early retirement

The highlight of his international career was to take part in the 1974 World Cup in Germany. Australia had already qualified to take part in the final tournament. The team met Uruguay in two friendly matches . He was brutally fouled twice during the game. An attack by Luis Garisto hit him directly on the carotid artery , which then swelled.

The next day he was taken to a hospital with paralysis in his left arm, where he passed out for two days. Doctors later indirectly advised him not to pursue his career, as re-injury to the artery could potentially result in death.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Australia's Amateur Troop 1974: Locksmith, Painter and a Milkman, Spiegel Online June 10, 2010, accessed January 14, 2011

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personal data
SURNAME Baartz, Ray
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Newcastle (Australia)