Ulrich Pechtold

Ulrich Pechtold (born July 24, 1952 ) is a former German soccer player. From 1974 to 1981 he played 220 league games in the 2nd Bundesliga for the clubs 1. FC Nürnberg , Kickers Offenbach and SpVgg Fürth , scoring 16 goals. The midfielder and defensive player started his higher-class career from 1970 to 1974 at FC Bayern Hof with 89 games and 16 goals in what was then the second division of the Regionalliga Süd .

career

Regionalliga Süd, 1970 to 1974

The young footballer Ulrich Pechtold came to FC Bayern Hof in the Regionalliga Süd via TSG Creidlitz 1908 eV and VfB Coburg for the 1970/71 season. The 18-year-old young talent was substituted for the first time by coach Gunther Baumann in the second half of the season on March 28, 1971 in a 3-0 home win at the Green Au stadium. In the last lap days in May 1971 three more missions were added in his first regional league season. Like the young Lorenz-Günther Köstner , he made four regional league appearances in Hof in 1970/71. In his second season, 1971/72 , the team around the goal scorers Wolfgang Breuer (35-27), Ludwig Schuster (35-16) and Karl-Heinz Zapf (36-14) reached under the new coach Herbert Wenz behind Meister Kickers Offenbach the runner-up and thus the renewed entry into the Bundesliga promotion round. In the second half of the season he made the leap into the regular eleven and on April 22, 1972 he was also a member of the Hof team, which was able to beat the champions from Offenbach with a 2-2 score in front of 19,000 spectators. The young Pechtold acted as right defender and had to deal with national player Sigfried Held on Offenbach's side . At the runner-up he played in 17 league games. In the promotion round he came against the rivals Borussia Neunkirchen, Wuppertaler SV, Tasmania Berlin and VfL Osnabrück to five missions and scored one goal in the 3: 4 away defeat at Bremer Brücke .

In the last two rounds of the old second-rate regional league era, 1972/73 and 1973/74, Pechtold did not miss a single competitive game with his 68 league appearances and 16 goals. However, Hof could no longer achieve top positions without the goal scorer, Wolfgang Breuer, who had moved to Innsbruck. After a total of 89 regional league games with 16 goals, the 22-year-old joined 1. FC Nürnberg in the opening season of the newly introduced 2. Bundesliga, 1974/75 .

2nd Bundesliga, 1974 to 1981

With coach Hans Tilkowski and the other newcomers Hans-Otto Hiestermann , Wolfgang Holoch , Karl-Heinz Meininger , Franz Schwarzwälder and the ex-goal scorer of VfL Bochum, Hans Walitza , the "Frankenstolz", who was relegated to the second division in 1969, tried again. to return to the Bundesliga. On the first day of the debut season of the 2. Bundesliga, August 2, 1974, the "club" lost to FC Augsburg, led by Helmut Haller , in front of 32,000 spectators in the Rosenaustadion with 0-2 goals. The newcomer from Hof ​​had acted as a right full-back. At the end of the round there were 35 league games with three goals in the statistics for Pechtold and the men around Dieter Nüssing had to be content with sixth place. In the second season, 1975/76 , Pechtold and colleagues won the runner-up in the southern season and thus had the opportunity to achieve promotion to the Bundesliga in two relegation games against the northern runner-up Borussia Dortmund . Pechtold contributed to winning the runner-up in 37 games with four goals alongside the other regulars Black Forest, Rudi Sturz , Manfred Rüsing , Peter Stocker , Rudolf Hannakampf , Norbert Eder , Kurt Geinzer , Nüssing, Slobodan Petrović , Jan Majkowski , Meininger and Walitza . The home game was lost on June 17, 1976 in front of 53,000 spectators with 0-1 goals and the second leg on June 23rd in front of 53,700 spectators with 2-3 goals, and so it continued in Nuremberg in the 2nd Bundesliga. Now they tried a change of coach, Horst Buhtz replaced the goalkeeper of the 1966 World Cup in England. Under the former Italian professional, Pechtold was the only "club" player to complete all 38 rounds in 1976/77, mostly as a defender but also in midfield, and scored three goals. But it was not enough for promotion, Nuremberg only reached fifth place under Buhtz in 1977. After 110 second division games with ten goals for 1. FC Nürnberg, Pechtold and teammate Kurt Geinzer moved to Kickers Offenbach in the stadium on Bieberer Berg for the 1977/78 season .

Under coach Udo Klug , the starting game was lost on August 6, 1977 at Wormatia Worms with the series of attacks by Walter Plaggemeyer , Walter Krause and Alfred Seiler , as well as the two ex-Nürnbergers in defense, but with 0-3 goals. Again he landed at the end of the round with a club in fifth place in the table. He had again played all 38 league games and scored six goals for the OFC. His entry club in professional football, FC Bayern Hof, on the other hand, had to go to the amateur camp. Under Klug's successor Horst Heese there was no improvement in the table in 1978/79 and after a total of 75 second division games with six goals he was attracted to the 1979/80 round by the financial lure of Westfalia Herne patron Erhard Goldbach in the stadium at Strünkede Castle . Due to the "Goldin" bankruptcy, the chapter ended for Herne in the amateur league and for Pechtold with the return to the southern league for SpVgg Fürth, where he was in the midfield of the "Kleeblattelf" on September 23, 1979 in a 0-0 draw against SV Darmstadt 98 “Debuted alongside Wolfgang Lausen and Florian Hinterberger .

With the "clovers" from Ronhof under coach Hannes Baldauf and alongside fellow players Bernhard Bergmann , Eduard Kirschner , Peter Löwer and Manfred Ritschel , it was enough to finish seventh. The championship went to 1. FC Nürnberg in front of Karlsruher SC. Pechtold had played in 17 league games. With his participation in the catch-up game on December 20, 1980 in the 8-0 home win against relegated Borussia Neunkirchen, however, his professional career ended. After a total of 220 second division appearances with 16 goals, he dissolved his licensed player contract with Fürth at the turn of the year and went back to the amateur camp and in February 1981 took over the SpVgg Ansbach as a player-coach.

Player-coach and coach

After Ansbach he took over the FSV Bad Windsheim, Jahn Forchheim, ATS Kulmbach and the ASV Gaustadt. From the 1995/96 season he was the first to be a pure coach, he trained ASV Gaustadt in Bamberg. This was followed by almost ten years at 1. FC Bamberg (1996-2005) and the two stations at FSV Erlangen-Bruck and SV Pettstadt.

Pechtold runs a soccer hall in Forchheim, directly opposite the Jahn site.

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 .
• Christoph Bausenwein, Harald Kaiser, Bernd Siegler: 1. FC Nuremberg. The legend of the club. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 1996. ISBN 3-89533-163-5
• Raphael Keppel: Chronicle of the 2nd Bundesliga 1974-1989. Sports and games publisher Edgar Hitzel. Hürth 1990. ISBN 3-9802172-7-2