Werner Balte

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Werner Balte
Personnel
birthday February 17, 1948
place of birth Bochum ,  Germany
date of death March 17, 2007
size 173 cm
position Midfield , storm
Juniors
Years station
TuS Griesenbruch
0000-1966 VfL Bochum
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1966-1977 VfL Bochum 276 (95)
1 Only league games are given.

Werner Balte (born February 17, 1948 in Bochum ; † March 17, 2007 ) was a German football player .

Career

Werner Balte played for VfL Bochum from 1966 to 1977 and scored 95 goals in 276 games, including 38 goals in 170 games in the Bundesliga . His greatest sporting success was reaching the DFB Cup final in 1968 , which VfL lost 4-1 to 1. FC Köln . On June 20, 1971 Balte scored the fourth goal of the month in the game of the promotion round to the Bundesliga of VfL against Tasmania Berlin . After goalkeeper Horst Grunenberg had thrown the ball into the air to tee off , Balte carried the released play equipment into the Berlin goal.

He later worked as a coach, including in the youth department of VfL Bochum , where he discovered players like Martin Kree and Frank Heinemann .

Werner Balte died at the age of 59 after a serious illness. A minute's silence was held in his honor before the Bundesliga match between VfL Bochum and Hannover 96 on April 1, 2007.

literature

  • Heinz Formann, Deep in the West. The phenomenon VfL Bochum, Klartext-Verlag, 1994, ISBN 3-88474-177-2
  • Markus Franz, The boys from Castroper Strasse. The history of VfL Bochum, Verlag Die Werkstatt, 2005, ISBN 3-89533-506-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Balte on munzinger.de
  2. ↑ Goal of the Month June 1971 on sportschau.de
  3. ↑ Mein VfL - 27th matchday 2006/07 - issue # 14; Page 6: Obituary: We mourn Werner Balte on vfl-bochum.de ( Memento from October 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 2.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Balte, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 2007