Ricardo-Horacio Neumann

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Ricardo-Horacio Neumann (born July 12, 1946 in Colonia Barón , La Pampa , † May 29, 2008 ) was an Argentine football player . The offensive player played 16 league games and scored two goals at 1. FC Köln in the two rounds of 1972/73 and 1973/74 in the Bundesliga . In the French Ligue 1 , he has completed another 35 first division games and scored seven goals at SC Bastia in the two rounds 1974/75 and 1975/76.

career

After his youth, the trained baker spent most of his football career with the Red-Blacks of Chacarita Juniors, a soccer club from Buenos Aires. He was two-footed and tech-savvy, a good preparer, but he was also looking for a degree himself. He was preferred as a left winger or in attacking midfield. He was instrumental in the greatest success in Chacarita's club history in 1969: winning the Campeonato Metropolitano, a tournament of the Argentine Primera Division that was held at the end of the first half of the season until 1982 . As a faster left winger, Neumann was one of the stars of the championship team, which is still legendary today. The German sports journalist and soccer coach Fritz Hack, who lived in Buenos Aires at the time, referred Neumann to Germany. Hack was a friend of Oskar Maaß, the president of 1. FC Cologne. For 100,000 D-Mark, the FC signed the blond attacker, who signed a three-year contract on December 8, 1972 in Geißbockheim.

Eight days later, on December 16, the attacker, who was called “El Tanque” (“The Tank”) in his home country, made his debut in a home game against FC Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga. FC Bayern was four points ahead of their pursuers Fortuna Düsseldorf after the 16th matchday with 27: 5 points as the leader of the table at 1. FC Köln. The team from the cathedral city took 5th place with 19:13 points. Playmaker Wolfgang Overath was to be replaced at the hosts and the newcomer stormed at the top alongside Detlev Lauscher , supported from midfield by Johannes Löhr and Heinz Flohe . Libero Bernhard Cullmann gave FC a 1-0 lead with a long-range shot in the 10th minute and Jupp Kapellmann scored the 2-1 winner in the 90th minute. In the chronicle it is stated in the game description “that the attacking game of the Cologne center forward Ricardo Neumann was praised by both coaches after the game.” Until Neumann had his own car, he was chauffeured to training by team-mate Heinz Simmet . The newcomer scored his first goal in the Bundesliga in a 5-1 home win on January 20, 1973 against VfB Stuttgart. Before that, however, he had already distinguished himself in the DFB Cup second leg on December 20, 1972 against local rivals SC Fortuna Köln in a 4-0 win after extra time as a goalscorer to make it 3-0. Neumann experienced his sixth and last round appearance on May 26, 1973 with a 3-2 away win at Kickers Offenbach, when he came on for Lauscher in the 84th minute. He was not used in the legendary cup final on June 23, 1973 in Düsseldorf against Borussia Mönchengladbach (1: 2 afterwards). Jürgen Glowacz was used in the attack alongside Löhr and later replaced by Rainer Gebauer .

During the 1973/74 season, even after Rudi Schlott's coach changed to Zlatko Čajkovski, he did not join the Cologne team. Neumann had to be content with ten missions. There was also a game in the DFB Cup against Wuppertaler SV (1-0) and two substitutions in the UEFA Cup against Olympique Marseille and OGC Nice. Neumann's efforts to permanently secure a regular place at FC received significant setbacks due to unfortunate injuries and a traffic accident in February 1973. But he also had difficulties with the training: Here he trained at times when the siesta was on the program in Buenos Aires. In the evenings, when life was pulsating in the Argentine metropolis, the ceiling fell on Neumann's head in his Hürth-Efferen dormitory. He moved to France in August 1974, where he joined SC Bastia for two seasons . Under coach Pierre Cahuzac , Bastia finished 6th in 1974/75 and Neumann had scored six goals in 21 league games alongside teammates like Ferdinand Heidkamp and Jacques Zimako .

It was followed by a season at the second division Paris FC in 1976/77 before he returned home to Chacarita (January to June 1978). In the summer of 1978 he went back to Europe to Red Star Paris (3rd division). Twelve months later he ended his career and finally returned to his native Argentina and bought a house in the northern metropolitan area of ​​Buenos Aires, in the district of General San Martin. He was trained as a geriatric nurse and worked for many years in a local retirement home until he died on May 29, 2008 of a heart attack.

societies

successes

literature

  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 359.
  • Dirk Innschuld, Frederic Latz: With the billy goat on his chest. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2013. ISBN 978-37307-0047-1 . Pp. 242/243.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FALLECIÓ HORACIO RICARDO NEUMANN (Spanish) ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chacaritajuniors.org.ar
  2. ^ Jürgen Bitter: Germany's football. The encyclopedia. FA Herbig. Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-7766-2558-5 . P. 516
  3. ^ Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Spiellexikon 1963–1994. P. 359
  4. ↑ Dirk Innschuld, Frederic Latz: With the billy goat on the chest. P. 243
  5. ↑ Ulrich Merk, Andre Schulin, Maik Großmann: Bundesliga Chronicle 1972/73. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2008. ISBN 978-3-89784-092-8 . P. 118
  6. ↑ Dirk Innschuld, Frederic Latz: With the billy goat on the chest. P. 243
personal data
SURNAME Neumann, Ricardo-Horacio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Colonia Barón
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 2008