Heinz van Haaren

Heinz van Haaren ( born June 3, 1940 in Marl) is a former football player who in 1972 won the DFB Cup with FC Schalke 04.

Career

TSV Marl- Hüls, 1960-64

From the Youth Department of VfL Drewer on the SpVg Marl of the 20 -year-old Heinz In 1960, newly promoted to the Oberliga West, the TSV Marl- Hüls. In his first premier league years 1960/61, he came up with 29 games and two goals. At the end of the premier league era 1963 he had for Marl -Hüls contested 82 games in three years and scored eight goals in the process. In the season 1962/63 Rudi Good village had made a stop at the Jahn stadium for its TSV - wards but it was enough only for 16th place. But good village got 1963/64, the chance to work for the new Bundesliga as a coach with the Meidericher SV.

Karl -Heinz Sell and Christoph Walter, players from Heinz van Haaren under the later " bolt - Rudi ", achieved in 1967 with Alemannia Aachen also the leap into the Bundesliga. Equipped with a Dutch passport van Haaren was another season in Marl- Hüls. In the first year of the Regionalliga West 1963/64, the left external rotor landed with his comrades on the excellent 4th place. The surprise runner-up of the 1st Bundesliga Round, the Meidericher SV, committed for the second year in football - upper house then the most outstanding in the Regional midfielder. So that his time was up after four rounds at TSV.

Meidericher SV / MSV Duisburg, 1964-68

With coach Hermann Eppenhoff and the players Manfred Manglitz, Michael Bella, Hartmut Heidemann, Werner Kramer, Horst Gecks and Carl -Heinz Rühl he experienced in the 1965/66 season in Meiderich after 8th place in the Bundesliga, a place in the DFB Cup Final 1966. on June 4, van Haaren stood with his new team-mates from the MSV in Frankfurt / Main, the hopeful team of the riser Bayern Munich against. Franz Beckenbauer sat with his goal to make it 4-2 for the Bavarians the final point in a finale that gave the fans of both teams to cheer. In the 1967/68 season Gyula Lorant ruled with strict coach - hand in the Wedau. After the preliminary round of the MSV was on the 4th place, level on points with second-placed. Heinz van Haaren played a strong round, in all 34 games, he reeled off a huge workload and also scored seven hits. Horst Wild, the come from Karlsruher SC midfielder, and Rainer Budde supported him effectively on the offensive. In the second half the Lorant troupe could not quite hold and landed at the end of the season in seventh place this year. 1968 Heinz van Haaren said goodbye after four seasons with the " zebra " with 123 games and 22 goals and moved to FC Schalke 04

FC Schalke 04, 1968-72

After the trainer change from Günther Brocker to Rudi Good village on 22 November 1968, the way the " Royal Blues " in the table went upstairs. Even better, it ran in the Cup competition. The guys around Heinz van Haaren moved into the final on 14 June 1969 in Frankfurt am Main against Bayern Munich. Gerd Müller took his two goals in addition to the first Bundesliga title and the DFB-Pokal in 1969 to Munich. At the same time Schalke qualified for the European Cup 1969/70. About the stations Shamrock Rovers, IFK Norrköping and Dinamo Zagreb drew a Schalke into the semifinals, where was against Manchester City last stop. With coach Ivica Horvat experienced Heinz van Haaren 1971/72 then its best Bundesliga season. Schalke was charged with 28:6 points autumn champions, on the final day but the FC Bayern won the German championship by a 5-1 home win against the " squire " and made for the runner-up Schalke 1972. But three days later triumphed " Royal Blue ". With 5:0 the Cup final in Hanover was made on July 1 against 1 FC Kaiserslautern. The performance of the director Heinz van Haaren contributed significantly to this success. He was strong and constant through all the years of his active career. From 1968 to 1972 he played 126 league games for Schalke, scoring 10 goals.

Testify

For striker Klaus Fischer van Haaren was one of the leaders of the team: "He was perhaps not the fastest, but he had a lot of rest on the ball and a scary good eye. " Klaus Fichtel, the record Libero, van Haaren even describes as ". secret captain of the team, the distinguished an incredible willingness to run " Ulrich Homann wrote this:" Heinz van Haaren, the flying Dutchman, a midfielder first quality, in this period ( 1965-72 ) surpassed in his position really only by Günter Netzer ".

Bundesliga scandal

Heinz van Haaren was on 17 April 1971 at the " sold 0:1 " against Bielefeld in the Schalke team. Like all other twelve Schalke player who had participated, he has been banned by the DFB. He joined together with Reinhard Libuda to Racing Strasbourg. However, Heinz van Haaren said in 2009 in a newspaper interview that his move to Strasbourg had been laid before, and therefore not came about in order to avoid a possible ban by the DFB.

Finale

In 1973 he returned to the Ruhr area and still played a few years at various amateur clubs, before 04 youth coach was the late 70s at Schalke. He won the German championship with the Youth B in 1978. With Wolfram Wuttke matured a great talent approach in this vintage for Schalke. However, football has become a hobby. Heinz van Haaren began training to become a certified massage therapist and then ran a massage practice in Gelsenkirchen. André son followed in his footsteps - he worked for Schalke amateurs as a physical therapist until he took over his father's practice.