Gerard Bergholtz

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Gerard Bergholtz 1961

Gerardus Maria Catherina Henricus "Pummie" Bergholtz (born August 29, 1939 in Maastricht , Netherlands ) is a former Dutch soccer player who won the Dutch championship with Feijenoord Rotterdam and three times Belgian championship with RSC Anderlecht . He was used twelve times in the Dutch national team.

Club career

Bergholtz began his footballing career as a child at the age of six at Rapid , a Jesuit- run club in his hometown. At the age of 18, the striker came to MVV Maastricht , where he began his professional career on August 25, 1957 with a 4-0 defeat at Ajax Amsterdam . This is where he got his nickname "Pummie". He was active for the MVV four years before it for a fee of 80,000 1,961 guilders for reigning Dutch champions Feijenoord of Rotterdam changed - a very high amount for a first 21-year-old who, however, already twice at this time National was used was.

At Feijenoord he was part of the regular formation after the change; for the first time he worked in the Eredivisie on August 20, 1961 in the 6-1 win at Rapid JC for his new employer. His first international appearance for the new club as a right winger in front of the right runner Rinus Bennaars was a game in the European Cup in Ullevi Stadium against IFK Gothenburg , which Feijenoord won 3-0, but without Bergholtz scoring. Feijenoord was able to repeat the success of the previous year in the Eredivisie in the new season, so that Bergholtz was able to celebrate a championship title in his first season. In four seasons he came to Rotterdam on 102 missions with 27 goals in the Eredivisie.

Since only six players from a club were allowed to earn a maximum of 10,000 guilders in the Netherlands at that time, the club refused to raise his salary, so that Berholtz went over the border to the Belgian top club RSC Anderlecht in 1965 . In his first three seasons he won four titles with the purple-whites , namely the championship and in 1967 the Belgian Cup . He formed a storm with Jan Mulder and Paul Van Himst , who scored 49 goals together in the First Division in the 1966/67 season. In his last season in Anderlecht, he only made four league appearances, so that in 1970 he moved to Racing White AC within Brussels , with whom he reached the 1972/73 UEFA Cup competition . He stayed here for one more season after Racing White and Daring Molenbeek merged in 1973 to form RWD Molenbeek .

In 1974, the now 35-year-old moved to the RAEC Mons in the tweede class , where he ended his active career in 1976.

National team

Bergholtz was already part of the Netherlands ' squad in a friendly against Belgium in March 1961 , but was not used. But on April 30, 1961, he was allowed to play for the first time in Orange in the World Cup qualifier against Hungary ; however, the Netherlands lost 3-0 in De Kuip . Just 14 days later things went a little better for Maastricht and his team; in the Leipzig Central Stadium there was also a 1-1 draw in the World Cup qualification.

Bergholtz had to wait almost exactly a year for his next game; then it went in the Amsterdam Olympic Stadium against the reigning world champion Brazil and the Elftal won 1-0. After another year of no use, he made eight more games for the national team in 1964/65, including three appearances in qualifying for the 1966 World Cup . After another two years in which he was not appointed, bond coach Georg Keßler brought him back again in 1967 for a game in the European Championship qualification . As in his first appearance, it was against Hungary on May 10, 1965 at the Népstadion , and this game - Bergholtz's twelfth and last in the national team - was lost, with 1: 2. And in this match, as in the eleven games before, Bergholtz failed to score.

Trainer

After his active career, Bergholtz worked as a coach for several lower-class Belgian clubs, such as Lanaken , Bilzen and Patro Eisden in Maasmechelen . From 1979 to 1981 he was a trainer for two seasons at the second division VV St. Truiden ; In 1987 he briefly held this position at the first division club AA Gent .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Profiel: Gerard Bergholtz  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at FR-Fanatic , spotted on June 12th, 2008@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.fr-fanatic.com  
  2. ↑ a b player portrait Gerard 'Pummy' Bergholtz
  3. ↑ Game data  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the KNVB website@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / knvb.nl  
  4. ↑ Photos of this game can be found here ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / home.concepts.nl

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personal data
SURNAME Bergholtz, Gerard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bergholtz, Gerardus Maria Catherina Henricus (full name); Bergholtz, Pummie (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Maastricht