Horst Blankenburg

Horst Blankenburg, 1972

Horst Blankenburg ( * July 10, 1947 in Heidenheim an der Brenz ) is a former German football player. His greatest successes came in the beginning of the 1970s, when he three times in succession won the European Champions Cup and twice in each case the national championship and Dutch Cup with Ajax Amsterdam. With the Hamburger SV in 1976 he won the DFB Cup and the 1977 European Cup Winners' Cup.

Career

Career start

Blankenburg originally played for VfL Heidenheim. His professional career began in the 1967/68 season under Max Merkel at the 1 FC Nuremberg. In his first season the team was German champion. Blankenburg came in the season but only 13 times used and completed a single League game. He then moved for a transfer fee of 45,000 DM for Wiener Sport - Club, where he was with the team of Austrian Vice Champion. In 1969 he moved for a transfer fee of $ 100,000 for TSV 1860 München. There he completed 31 Bundesliga appearances and scored one goal. At the end of the season his club was relegated.

Change to Amsterdam

Blankenburg moved half a year later to Ajax Amsterdam, where he replaced Velibor Vasovic, of his playing career ended at the end of the 1970/71 season because of health problems. A total of five years he was in the squad and won from 1971 to 1973 three times the European Champions Cup. With Ajax Blankenburg in 1972 and 1973 national champion and 1971 and 1972 Cup Winners' Cup. As a defensive player, he participated in all the playoffs, the final in 1971, he was, however, applied only after halftime. In 1972 he was one of the team, with the UEFA Super Cup and the World Cup won the international triple after the national championship.

In Amsterdam Blankenburg played in a team with Johan Cruyff, Johan Neeskens, Ruud Krol and Arie Haan. His coach Rinus Michels and Stefan Kovacs were. Hennes Weisweiler judged him as a football player, who would his ideal of a libero next. In the German national team, however, occupied this position Franz Beckenbauer at this time. Blankenburg was therefore never called into the national team.

Return to the Bundesliga and End of career

In 1975, Blankenburg for Hamburger SV in the Bundesliga. With the HSV he won under coach Kuno Klötzer the DFB Cup in 1976 and 1977 the European Cup Winners' Cup. In the final against RSC Anderlecht he did not play. However Blankenburg could not prevail permanently located at HSV. In his second season, he completed just 13 appearances in the Bundesliga. He then moved to Neuchâtel Xamax in Switzerland. In Chicago Sting, KSC Hasselt and 1980 in Preußen Münster in the 2nd Bundesliga Nord and the Oberliga Westfalen he ended his career as a professional football player.

Amateur and coaches

In 1982, Blankenburg castle in the amateur the Hummelsbütteler SV in Hamburg, where he played with his former team mate Georg Volkert. In the second half of the 1984/85 season he finished twelve games for the Lüneburg SK in the Oberliga Nord, before he ended his active career. From 1 July 1985, he was coach of the Lüneburg. After eight games without a win in a row he had his office in March 1986, left to his successor, Rainer Zobel, the ULC could still lead to relegation. As of July 1987 trained Blankenburg the Oberliga Atlas Delmenhorst. After the first ten season games were lost, Blankenburg had to vacate his seat on the bench after only three months.

Find out more

  • In 1976 opened the former Ajax player, the local "Hamburger beer fountain".
  • Today Blankenburg lives in Hamburg and sometimes plays in the Uwe Seeler tradition of self Hamburger SV.
  • Although he had never played for the German national team, Blankenburg was appointed in 1973 in the European football selection.
  • Area of ​​Amsterdam Watergraafsmeer a bridge was named after him.

Achievements

  • German champion with 1 FC Nuremberg: 1968 (without league use )
  • Dutch champion Ajax Amsterdam: 1972, 1973
  • KNVB Cup with Ajax Amsterdam: 1971, 1972
  • European Champions Cup with Ajax Amsterdam: 1971, 1972, 1973
  • UEFA Super Cup with Ajax Amsterdam: 1972
  • World Cup with Ajax Amsterdam: 1972
  • German Cup with Hamburger SV: 1976,
  • European Cup Winners Cup Winners' Cup with Hamburger SV: 1977
  • Winning the Central Division / American Conference with Chicago Sting: 1980
Defender (association football) 1. FC Heidenheim Wiener Sport-Club Ștefan Kovács
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