Alfons Jochem

Alfons Jochem (born November 30, 1960 in Saarburg ) is a former German soccer player . He later worked as a football coach and official.

Career

Jochem played at Eintracht Trier . Between 1979 and 1981 he played a total of 27 games in the 2nd Bundesliga for the club, for which he was subsequently active. In 1987 he moved with the club as champions of the Oberliga Südwest in the promotion round to the 2nd Bundesliga , but failed there with the club after three wins and three defeats as a third party behind Kickers Offenbach and SpVgg Bayreuth . As a runner-up two years later, he reached the final game with the team in the German Amateur Championship in 1989 , in which he was in the starting lineup in the final victory over SpVgg Bad Homburg . Until 1990 he ran for the Trier.

From 1993 Jochem worked as a coach at the Luxembourg club CS Grevenmacher in the national division . With the team he reached the runner-up behind Avenir Beggen at the end of his first season , so that the club qualified for the European Cup for the first time . In qualifying for the 1994/95 UEFA Cup , the team failed after two defeats at the Norwegian club Rosenborg BK . At the end of the season it was enough for the runner-up again and through a success over Jeunesse Esch on penalties , the club won a title for the first time under his leadership with the Coupe de Luxembourg . The 1995/96 European Cup Winners' Cup kicked off with a 3-2 win over Icelandic representatives KR Reykjavík, the first victory on the international stage, but with a 2-0 defeat in the second leg he was eliminated with the club in the first round . In the following years, too, he and the team regularly qualified as runner-up for the UEFA Cup . After a 2-0 final win over FC Avenir Beggen in the national cup in 1998, he said goodbye to his coaching post in Luxembourg after five years.

Jochem was later a member of the board of his long-term club Eintracht Trier and left his position in April 2008. He has been on the association's supervisory board since then.

Life

Jochem is married for the second time and has three children.

Web links

• Alfons Jochem in the database of weltfussball.de