Jörg Heuting (born 11 December 1969) is a German former

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who played in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He played mainly in the position of

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, but also as a

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. Heuting played his youth football with

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and advanced to the first team in the summer 1988. A year later, he joined

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's first team for their 1989–90 season and signed his first professional contract under head-coach

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in the second tier of Swiss football. After playing in four test games he made his debut in the

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on 20 August 1989. He was substituted in for the injured

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at half time and during the second half he scored two goals as Basel cruised to an 8–0 victory. Heuting made his domestic league debut for the club on 7 October as Basel won 3–0 away to

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. But Heuting never advanced to more than being on the substitute bench therefore he left the club as his contract expired at the end of the season. During that time Heuting played 14 games for Basel scoring five goals. Five of these games were in the Nationalliga A, one in the Swiss Cup, and eight were friendly games. He scored those two goals in the cup competition and the other three were scored during the test games.

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* Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel.
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