René Pontoni
| René Pontoni | ||
 Pontoni in the jersey of Newell's OB
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | René Alejandro Pontoni | |
| birthday | May 18, 1920 | |
| place of birth | Santa Fe , Argentina | |
| date of death | May 14, 1983 | |
| Place of death | Santa Fe , Argentina | |
| position | striker | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1940-1944 | Newell's Old Boys | 110 (67) |
| 1945-1948 | CA San Lorenzo | 102 (66) |
| 1949-1952 | Independiente Santa Fe | 44 (27) |
| 1953 | Associação Portuguesa | 17 (5) |
| 1954 | CA San Lorenzo | 4 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1942-1947 | Argentina | 19 (19) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
René Alejandro Pontoni (born May 18, 1920 in Santa Fe , † May 14, 1983 ibid) was an Argentine football player .
Career
Club career
René Pontoni, born in Santa Fe in 1920, began playing football with Newell's Old Boys in Argentina's third largest city, Rosario . For the club he played from 1940 to 1944 and played 110 times in the first Argentine soccer league, the Primera División . He scored 67 goals for Newell's Old Boys.
In 1944 he left the club and joined CA San Lorenzo de Almagro from the Almagro district of Bonaren , for which he made his debut on April 22, 1945 against Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata . San Lorenzo won 4-2 and Pontoni scored three of his team's four goals. At the club, where he played with other great footballers of the time such as Rinaldo Martino or the native Spaniard Ángel Zubieta , Pontoni played for four years and scored 66 goals in 102 league games. In the 1946 season he won the Argentine soccer championship with CA San Lorenzo de Almagro after the first place in the Primera División was occupied with four points ahead of the Boca Juniors after all match days . San Lorenzo was the best attack in the league with a total of ninety goals, with Pontoni Mario Boyé of the Boca Juniors having to leave first place in the scorers list.
In 1949 René Pontoni's time as a player at CA San Lorenzo de Almagro ended and he moved to Independiente Santa Fe in Colombia . In Bogotá he made 44 league games and scored 27 goals. In 1952 he went to Associação Portuguesa de Desportos in Brazil , from where he returned to CA San Lorenzo de Almagro in 1954 after just one year and ended his active career there in the same year. After the end of his time as a football player, he ran a pizzeria in Buenos Aires together with his former opponent Mario Boyé and also coached some lower-class Argentine clubs.
National team
René Pontoni made nineteen international matches in the Argentine national football team between 1942 and 1947 and scored nineteen goals, which corresponds to an average goal rate of one goal per game. With Argentina's national team he participated in three South America championships, a World Cup , he missed due to the Second World War and the associated break for World Cups between 1938 and 1950. But he took three times at the Copa America in part, and both in 1945 in Chile , 1946 in own country and in Ecuador in 1947 , the Argentine team finished the tournament as winners.
Web links
- René Pontoni in the database of weltfussball.de
- Biography of René Pontoni
- Profile of the player
- Information about the player
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Pontoni, René |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pontoni, René Alejandro (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentinian soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santa Fe , Argentina |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 14, 1983 |
| Place of death | Santa Fe , Argentina |