Hermann Kaltz (ヘルマン・カルツ) is a defensive midfielder of Germany, known as the "Workman" or "Schemer".
Description
Kaltz is a small and young German player with a "geezer face". He has a trademark toothpick, which he rarely takes away from his mouth unless he gets serious. As a midfielder, Genzo describes Kaltz's play to be consistent and reliable, but when Kaltz is serious, he becomes erratic and hard to predict when playing against. He wears the jersey #5 in Hamburger SV and usually #8 in Germany selection teams.
Etymology
His character is a reference to former Hamburger SV star Manfred Kaltz.
Biography
Prior to J Boys' Challenge
Kaltz was part of Hamburg Jr. Youth. Together with Karl Heinz Schneider and Genzo Wakabayashi, they made Hamburg Jr. Youth the No. 1 team in West Germany, and the three planned to dominate Bundesliga together. He is acquainted with the Wakabayashi's personal coach, Tatsuo Mikami, and his host family, the Draxlers.
J Boys' Challenge
European Friendlies
Kaltz first appears before the beginning of the match between Hamburg and All Japan Jr. Youth, asking if Schneider is not present. As the match starts, Kaltz and the others aren't moving much, letting Japan attack like Wakabayashi asked. However, as the audience starts booing them, they decide to play for real. Kaltz is the first one to make a move, cutting a pass from Takeshi Sawada to Kojiro Hyuga. He then manages to dodge Shun Nitta, who is chasing him. When Schneider faces Hiroshi Jito and Shingo Takasugi, he does a backpass to Kaltz, who then sends it back to Schneider. This results in the opening goal for Hamburg.
Later, Kaltz intercepts a pass in the middle of the field. He then exploits a small open space for Schneider to score the second goal with a Fire Shot. Kaltz soon has the ball again, dribbles past Takasugi before doing a centering. The following header of his teammate is stopped by Ken Wakashimazu, though.
After the shoot of Klaus, one of Kaltz teammates, got repelled, Kaltz immediately picks up the ball and passes to Schneider, who shoots with the back of his foot to avoid the defenders, however Wakashimazu manages to catch the ball with a Triangle Jump. Kaltz later has a confrontation with Hyuga, who dodges him with a feint. Hyuga's breakthrough is still stopped after that, however.
As the second half begins, Kaltz snatches the ball from Sawada, then gets past Jito and Makoto Soda. However, there is still a third defender, Mamoru Izawa, who manages to cut the ball. Kaltz's first shooting chance is from Schneider's pass, who tells him to shoot as Wakashimazu's hands won't be able to keep up. Even though Wakashimazu stops the shot, his right hand is indeed bleeding as it was injured earlier by Schneider, causing him to be replaced by Yuzo Morisaki. Since then, Kaltz, Schneider and the others stops every breakthrough from Japan, while Schneider scores two more goals. Even though Hyuga manages to score one goal, it's still a 1-5 loss for Japan.
International Jr. Youth Tournament
West Germany plays against Canada in their opening game. Kaltz and Franz Schester completely dominate the midfield, as Schneider scores a hattrick for his team's 4-0 win.
In their second group game, West Germany beat Portugal by 4-1 with another hattrick by Schneider.
Drawn against Uruguay in the semifinals, West Germany quickly concede after Ramon Victorino scores after just 50 seconds. Led by Schneider, West Germany quickly equalize as Manfred Margus deflects Schester's pass for Kaltz, who passes to Schneider to score with his Fire Shot. After the entry of Deuter Muller, West Germany take control of the game. As Schester completely controls the midfield, Kaltz just stands around doing nothing in the second half, thinking he's at ease in this match.
The final is West Germany versus Japan. After Tsubasa Ozora takes the ball, Kaltz does a tackle, but Tsubasa gets past thanks to his Golden Combi with Taro Misaki. Later, when Tsubasa is about to do a Drive Shot, Kaltz does a Sliding Tackle, but he isn't fast enough. The shot is still stopped by Muller though.
After Schneider tells his teammates his deduction about Wakabayashi doing researches on the West Germany team, the team regain their form. After receiving a pass from Schester, Kaltz gets past Sawada and Mitsuru Sano, then does a pass, which seemingly goes the wrong way as it doesn't go towards Schneider, but it is in fact a pass for Margus. Wakabayashi catches Margus' shot, however. Right before the end of the first half, Kaltz does a sliding past which gives Schneider a one on one chance against Wakabayashi. Schneider's shot hits the bar however, as Wakabayashi took it in the face before that. The first half ends 1-1.
Because their honor is wounded by Japan, West Germany fiercely attack during the second half. Kaltz becomes more serious, with Wakabayashi even noting that neither he nor Schneider can know what Kaltz will do. Kaltz takes the ball from Nitta with a forcible tackle, then breaks through on his own. The ball only got loose after a clash with Misaki. Later, Kaltz does a Loop Shot over Wakabayashi's head, but the latter uses his cap to push the ball away.
When the match only has 10 minutes left, Japan is leading 2-1. In the desperate situation, Kaltz spits out his toothpick, while cutting Tsubasa's pass at a high speed. He blows off Sawada with his Hedgehog Dribble before passing to Schester. The ball is soon returned to him, but he lets it through, allowing Schneider to shoot. Even though the attack is seemingly stopped when Ryo Ishizaki blocks Schneider's Fire Shot, Margus soon reclaims the ball for Schneider, and the latter equalizes from short range with his left leg.
Despite this, Japan score a 3rd goal and win the game 3-2, becoming junior youth champions.
Battle of World Youth
The Strongest Opponent! Netherlands Youth
It is mentioned that sometimes between the International Jr. Youth Tournament and the World Youth preliminaries, Netherlands Youth defeated Germany 3-1.
Bundesliga
Kaltz is now in Hamburger SV with Wakabayashi. In the match against 1.FC Koln, even though Kaltz gets serious and spits out his toothpick, he still loses to Stefan Levin in a confrontation. In the end, Levin injures Wakabayashi's left hand, and scores a hattrick, giving Koln victory. With Wakabayashi still injured, no one would be able to contend with Schneider as FC Bayern Munich would come out at the top of Bundesliga.
World Youth Tournament
Kaltz participates in the World Youth as a representative of Germany Youth, consisting of the former West and East Germany. After qualifying from the European preliminaries, Schneider and Kaltz arrives at Jakarta to observe the two teams that will become Asia's representatives. They meet Wakabayashi on the stand during the match between All Japan Youth and Iraq Youth, as Wakabayashi is injured and not able to play. They informs Wakabayashi about other rivals around the world. Kaltz remarks that Tsubasa is friend with the ball as always upon seeing the latter play.
Germany Youth easily wins the first two matches against Colombia and USA in the group stage. However they are beaten 3-5 by Sweden in the last match of the stage. The Swedish team, which Levin is part of, had studied Germany extensively and used that knowledge to defeat the Germans, also injuring their keeper Muller in the process. Germany go on to win their quarter-final game against Argentina 3-2, but lose to Brazil in the semi-final by 0-5.
Road to 2002
Both Kaltz and Wakabayashi would make full recoveries from their injuries and would plan to once again win Bundesliga. Despite more foreign players like Ramon Victorino joining the league, Kaltz and Genzo are collectively able to keep Hamburg undefeated until their fated clash against Schneider's Munich. He scores the opening goal very early thanks to Wakabayashi's Top Spin Pass. After that, with Kaltz thoroughly marking Schneider and Wakabayashi stopping the others' shots, Bayern cannot score any goal in the first half. However, in the second half, Bayern successes in scoring the tying goal by using the circulating shot, Dragon's Roar. After that, Hamburg's coach Seemann instructs the team to go for a defensive soccer, aiming for a tie. Schneider tells Wakabayashi and Kaltz that is a boring soccer, which makes Kaltz lose his composure and get a red card for kicking Schneider as a result. The match ends with a 2-1 victory for Bayern.
After the match, as Schneider is going to the medical office, Kaltz confronts him and says sorry for what he did and said earlier, as he realizes Schneider is truly an ace.
Rising Sun
Kaltz is part of Olympic Germany, and is considered the "true captain behind the shadows" of the team. During the group stages of Madrid, Germany would defeat both China and Senegal although they would score less goals in total than their final opponent in groups, Brazil. With a tie or loss meaning that they'd face Olympic Japan, Germany would face Brazil, but in the first half, Brazil would keep out all three of its star players, Rivaul, Carlos Santana, and Natureza.
In response, the Germans would quickly take a dominant lead in the first half; going 4-0 against Brazil with little effort. As a result, all three Brazilian aces would decide join the fray in the second half, equalizing the score at 4-4 and injuring Deuter Muller's left hand. Kaltz would intercept Rivaul early on but would be downed when Rivaul hits Kaltz's stomach with the ball. Though Kaltz attempts to return the favor, Rivaul's abs were stronger than Kaltz's attack, and the ball would be passed to Santana and Natureza's Full Metal Phantom. When Brazil attempts to use Full Metal Phantom a second time, Kaltz manages to stop the attack with his chest, breaking two ribs in the process. Brazil would not be able to take the lead as the game would eventually finish to a draw.
Both Kaltz and Muller would be sent to the hospital after their match. Although injured, the pair remained on the starting lineup, but Kaltz would be positioned as center back with Schester and the Schmidt brothers occupying Kaltz's normal roles. When this is insufficient as Japan would take the lead in the second half at 2-0, Kaltz would force himself to rejoint he midfield, but Wakabayashi would successfully stop the attacks from Schweil Teigerbran, Schester and Margus. An unexpected chance would come when Wakabayashi was accidentally injured and stretchered out when both he and Schneider lunged for the ball.
Initially, Schneider would be overcome with shock for what he had done, but Kaltz would snap his captain back to his senses, and Germany would take the opportunity to tie Japan during the additional time. Due to the power of Tsubasa and Taro's High Speed Tornado Sky Alpha, Kaltz and the Germans would initially use fouls to throw the pair off tempo, but these repeated offenses would get a warning from the referee, who would now issue red cards if he saw such play again. When Tsubasa and Taro are able to get into position for their shoot, Kaltz would again make the save by sacrificing his chest to stop the goal. Seeing that Kaltz was not getting back up, Tsubasa would respectfully clear the ball through the side line to allow Kaltz to also be stretchered out.
Kaltz would lose consciousness after leaving the field, but his condition would stabilize following a blood transfusion from Mikami and the Draxler family, and he would learn of Germany's final defeat at 5-7. Sharing the same room as Genzo, Kaltz would be surprised to hear that Genzo would return back to his team once he was discharged, and would burst into laughter when Schneider sends an embarrassing video of himself dancing naked as per an agreement with Genzo. Schneider would soon come in person to delete the video, and exchange Kaltz's jersey with Tsubasa's and his own with Wakabayashi's before returning back to Germany for training. As he was still injured, Kaltz would be the only member of the German team not returning home immediately, but was surprised to hear Wakabayashi decision to finally join Munich with Schneider, further decreasing the injured Kaltz's chances of taking Bundesliga with Hamburg for the next season. To be added as series progresses
Techniques
- Main article: Hermann Kaltz/Techniques
Gallery
- Main article: Hermann Kaltz/Gallery
Trivia
- His nickname in Japanese, 仕事師 (shigotoshi) can be translated as either "workman" or "schemer", both of which fit his character.
- In the Italian dub of Shin Captain Tsubasa, his name was changed to "Hermann Strauss". However, when Road to 2002 was dubbed, his original name was retained.
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