Vincent Balduin

Vincent Balduin (born March 8, 1916 ) was a German football player. After the end of the Second World War he always played first division football in Babelsberg .

Athletic career

When state- wide soccer championships were first approved in the Soviet occupation zone in 1946 , the Sports Association (SG) Babelsberg also competed in the Brandenburg state class . The player line-up included the 30-year-old Vincent Balduin, with whom the SG was runner-up in 1948. This qualified the Babelsbergers for the 1st East Zone Championship , in which, as in 1949, they were eliminated as Brandenburg champions after their first game.

With the 1949 championship, the sports community also qualified for the soccer league of the East German German Sports Committee, which was held for the first time in 1949/50 . There, the previous SG competed as the company sports community (BSG) Märkische Volksstimme , still with the 33-year-old Vincent Balduin. Of the 26 league games played, Balduin played 25 games as a right-back and scored his only league goal of the season in a 3-1 home win against ZSG Industrie Leipzig on matchday 20 . Also in the 1950/51 season, in which the East German top league was run as the GDR Oberliga and the team ran up as a BSG rotation , Balduin retained his regular place on the right defensive side with 30 of 34 league games, but this time he did not score. As a right defender, Balduin went into his third season in top German football in 1951/52 at the age of 35. In the fifth game of Babelsberg he scored one more goal, but already completed his last point game over the full 90 minutes on matchday nine. After he was substituted on again in the 69th minute on matchday 13, Balduin was no longer used after his tenth league game and ended his career as a football player.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1949–1952. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 59.
• Andreas Baingo , Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 292.

Web links

• Vincent Balduin in the database of the German Football Association
• Vincent Balduin in the database of weltfussball.de