Jürgen Pontes

Jürgen Pontes (born July 27, 1947 ) is a former German soccer player . The offensive player played seven games (1 goal) in the Bundesliga in two rounds (1965/66, 1967/68) for Borussia Neunkirchen and from 1966 to 1974 for the team from the Ellenfeldstadion in the second -rate regional soccer league Southwest 124 league games with 29 Goals completed. The striker was a member of the regional league championship teams of 1967, 1971, 1972 and 1974 of the black and whites from Saarland.

career

Pontes was an exceptionally talented youth player at Borussia Neunkirchen and came to the German youth team via the Saar selection . On March 21, 1965, he stormed the friendly international game in Oberhausen against Hungary in the DFB youth team on right wing. In the 1: 2 defeat he formed the German attack together with Karl-Heinz Kamp , Walter Bechtold , Ludwig Bründl and Manfred Mattes . At the UEFA youth tournament in April of that year, the future international striker Horst Köppel stormed the right wing of the German youth team.

In the 1965/66 season the young player was first used by coach Horst Buhtz on August 28, 1965, the third round match day, in the Bundesliga team of Borussia Neunkirchen. In a 1-1 home draw against Hamburger SV, he formed the right wing with Heinz Simmet . In the course of the round, however, he was unable to displace the regular players on the wings, Elmar May and Werner Görts , and only made his second Bundesliga appearance on the last day of the round, May 28, 1966, in a 1-0 home win against Karlsruher SC. In his first year in the second-rate Regionalliga Südwest, 1966/67, he won the championship with Neunkirchen . Pontes had scored ten goals in 24 league games in 1966/67 for the team of Buhtz's successor Zeljko Cajkovski . In the successful promotion round he was used in all eight games and scored two more goals.

In the Bundesliga season 1967/68 Pontes then completed only five (1 goal) Bundesliga games for the black and whites from the Ellenfeldstadion . The home grown could not assert itself against the competitors Hugo Ulm , Hans Linsenmaier and Jürgen Fuhrmann . Neunkirchen occupied the penultimate place in the final table and thus descended into the second class.

Pontes stayed and played with Borussia in the Regionalliga Südwest. After a fifth place in the table in the first year, the fourth place followed in the second season 1969/70. In the third year, the 1970/71 season , Pontes won the championship under coach Kurt Sommerlatt and alongside teammates such as Gerd Schley , Heinz Histing , Werner Martin , Norbert Heß , Gerd Zewe , Erich Hermesdorf and Heinz-Jürgen Henkes - Pontes had the championship scored three goals in 23 league games - and qualified for the subsequent promotion round. He played six games in this, but second place in the round, behind Fortuna Düsseldorf , was not enough for promotion. In the third championship success in 1971/72 with Borussia Neunkirchen in the Regionalliga Südwest, he came under the new coach Alfred Preißler to 19 league appearances and again played six promotion rounds, which in turn did not lead to a return to the Bundesliga. The attacker completed his personal best round in 1972/73 with 25 appearances in which he scored eight goals, but Borussia had to be content with fifth place.

Under coach Erwin Türk , Pontes celebrated his fourth championship win in the last year of the old second-rate regional league, 1973/74. He played in 14 league games and scored three goals. In the unsuccessful promotion round, he was used again in the two games against Rot-Weiß Oberhausen (2: 1) and FC St. Pauli (2: 5). After a total of 124 regional league appearances with 29 goals (22-2 in the promotion rounds), Pontes ended his higher-class football career in the summer of 1974 and went to the amateur area at VfB Hüttigweiler.

literature

• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 9: Player Lexicon 1963-1994. Bundesliga, regional league, 2nd league. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 , p. 388.

Web links

• Jürgen Pontes in the database of weltfussball.de
• Jürgen Pontes in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Jürgen Pontes in the database of the German Football Association