Kurt Baluses (30 June 1914 – 28 March 1972) was a German
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
player and manager.
He was the first manager of
VfB Stuttgart
Verein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 e. V. (), commonly known as VfB Stuttgart (), is a German professional sports club based in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg. The club's Association football, football team is currently part of Germany's f ...
in the then newly founded
Bundesliga
The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany and the highest level of the German football league system. The Bundesliga comprises 18 teams ...
and also had the biggest success of his managing career with the club, leading Stuttgart to a 5th-place finish in
1963–64.
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1914 births
1972 deaths
Footballers from Olsztyn
Sportspeople from East Prussia
German men's footballers
German football managers
Men's association football midfielders
Holstein Kiel players
1. FC Köln managers
Eintracht Braunschweig managers
VfB Stuttgart managers
Kickers Offenbach managers
Karlsruher SC managers
Bundesliga managers
20th-century German sportsmen
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