Ray Baartz

Australian former soccer player

Ray Baartz
Personal information
Full name	Raymond Henry Baartz^[1]
Date of birth	(1947-03-06) 6 March 1947 (age 77)
Place of birth	Newcastle, New South Wales
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)^[1]
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
1963	Adamstown Rosebuds
1963–1965	Manchester United
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1966–1974	Sydney Hakoah	236	(211)
International career^‡
1967–1974	Australia	48	(18)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 25 August 2007 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 25 August 2007

Raymond Henry "Ray" Baartz (born 6 March 1947) is an Australian former soccer player who played as a forward. He represented Australia 48 times between 1967 and 1974, scoring 18 goals, making him the nation's eighth-highest goal scorer of all time.

Baartz was born in Newcastle, New South Wales and spent his early years playing for Adamstown. At 17 he joined Manchester United and after 6 months signed on a two-year contract. In 1966 he returned to Australia and transferred to Sydney Hakoah for a then Australian record of £5600. He played 236 club matches scoring 211 goals.

Baartz was selected in the Australian squad to play in the World Cup finals in 1974^[2] but his career was prematurely ended after he was felled by a blow from Uruguay's Luis Garisto in a friendly international fixture at the Sydney Cricket Ground. The blow to his throat had damaged his carotid artery.^[3]

Ray currently still lives in Newcastle.

Awards and recognition

Baartz was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1985.^[4]

Baartz Terrace in the Sydney suburb of Glenwood is named for him.^[5]

On 5 December 2000, Baartz was awarded the Australian Sports Medal for services to soccer.^[6]

On 12 July 2012, Baartz was named in the Greatest ever Australian team.^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b "Player Biographies". sonsofunited.com. Archived from the original on 3 October 2015. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
^ 1974 World Cup Wikipedia link. Retrieved: 20 November 2010
^ "Moments in time". The Age, Melbourne. 19 November 2005. Archived from the original on 13 March 2010. Retrieved 14 April 2009.
^ "Ray Baartz". Sport Australia Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 24 September 2020. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
^ O'Maley, Christine (20 January 2010). "Park is a goner". Blacktown Advocate. Cumberland Newspapers. p. 14. ...streets are named after well known football identities...
^ "Ray Baartz". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Archived from the original on 22 February 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
^ "Harry Kewell named as greatest ever Australian footballer". Herald Sun. Retrieved 12 July 2012.

External links

Oz Football profile
Ray Baartz at the Sport Australia Hall of Fame
Ray Baartz at National-Football-Teams.com
Ray Baartz at WorldFootball.net

Football Australia Hall of Fame

Players

Men	Abonyi Ackerley Adair Almond Alston Armstrong Arnold Baartz Barnes Baumgartner Bennett Bignall Blair Bresciano Buljevic Byrne Cameron E. Campbell Chipperfield Clarke Cole Conquest Coolahan Corry Crino Crowhurst Curran Date Davidson De Bruyckere Drummond Dunn Evans Farina Fraser Gibb I. Gray Greedy Harding Harris B. Henderson T. Henderson H. Honeysett J. Hughes Ivanović Jack Jennings Johns Johnston Keith Kewell Kosmina Krncevic Lawrie Lazaridis Lennard Lord Loughran Mackay Maher Marocchi Marston Masters Maunder McMillan McNabb Melta Mitchell Moore Mori Moriarty Morrow Murphy Nunn Nyskohus S. O'Connor Okon Ollerton Olver O'Neill Parsons Perin Petersen Postecoglou Quill Raskopoulos Ratcliffe Reilly Richards Rooney Sander Savor Schaefer Schwarzer Sharne Slater G. Smith T. Smith Stewart Tansey Tobin Utjesenovic A. Vidmar T. Vidmar Viduka Vojtek Wade Warren Watkiss J. Watson Wilkinson Williams Wilson Yankos Zabica Zelic
Women	Alagich Brentnall Casagrande Deas Dodd Dolan Forman Garriock Gill Gegenhuber Heydon S. Hughes McCallum Millman Monteath J. Murray P. O'Connor Peters Salisbury Tann Wainwright Wardell Wheeler

Men