Heiner Backhaus

Heiner Backhaus ( born February 4, 1982 in Witten ) is a German football player.

Career

Backhaus made ​​his debut in professional football for Hannover 96, when he appeared as a substitute on 12 August 2001 at the 1-1 draw against SpVgg Unterhaching in the 61st minute for Nebojša Krupnikovic. It remained his only play in the second division for the club. About the league rivals 1.FC Union Berlin and AEK Larnaka he came to the league team Borussia Mönchengladbach.

During the 2004/05 season Backhaus moved as an amateur from Borussia Monchengladbach to Arminia Bielefeld, where he sometimes served also the senior squad but did not play. At the beginning of the season 2005/ 06, the midfielder joined free transfer to the second division side Kickers Offenbach.

For the season 2007/ 08 Backhaus moved to Malta to Valletta FC, ​​where he was instrumental helped that the team could win the first title since 2001 with the Maltese Championship. After one season he left the club and joined Kitchee SC from Hong Kong. During the winter break of 2008 /09 Backhaus returned to Germany and joined the third division Sachsen Leipzig. In July 2009 he moved to Olympiakos Nicosia, but left the club after one season and played back from now on for APOP Kinyras Peyias. On 1 January 2011 moved back home to the first FC Locomotive Leipzig. After a lengthy injury, his contract was, however, dissolves again in April. From August 2011 to December 2011 stood Heiner Backhaus at the NRW -division club Westfalia Herne under contract, but only got to three inserts. From March 2012 until the summer break 2012, he played for the unterklassigen SV Fortuna Leipzig 02 In summer 2012, Backhaus moved back to Malta. This time he joined Rabat Ajax FC. There his contract was terminated in late November, 2012.