Kurt Pinkall
Kurt Pinkall ( born June 25, 1955 in Brockel ) is a former German football player. He graduated in the years 1979 to 1986 a total of 121 games in the Bundesliga, scoring 40 goals.
Career
Rise in professional football
The striker began his career in the amateur camp at TuS Brockel and RW Scheessel. To round 1977/78 Pinkall moved to the Amateur Oberliga Nord Göttingen 05 with the Lower Saxony he finished third and moved with it into the promotion round to the 2nd Bundesliga Nord. The 05ers were not able to accomplish the ascent, SC Viktoria Köln sat in front of the DSC Wanne -Eickel, VfL Wolfsburg and the Gottingen through, but Pinkall was committed by the Cologne Movers for the 2nd league for season 1978/79. Among the coaches Fritz Pott and Ernst -Günter Habig he graduated from Victoria for 34 second division games on the side of his teammates Jürgen Jendrossek, Bernhard Hermes and Manfred circle and scored nine goals. In the winter of 1979 he signed a contract with the Bundesliga club VfL Bochum and moved to the Bundesliga.
VfL Bochum and Borussia Moenchengladbach, 1979-1986
On February 23, 1980 Kurt Pinkall played under coach Helmuth Johannsen his first game in the Bundesliga in the 0-3 defeat at Bayern Munich. In the second half 1979/80 he came to seven games with two goals. Final at the level of the first division, the attacker had adapted in his first full round 1980/81: Pinkall completed 32 games and headed for VfL 17 Goals.
This hit rate led Borussia Mönchengladbach to bring in the summer of 1981 the striker to Bökelberg. In his debut round in Mönchengladbach, he led with 15 gates at the internal scorers ahead of Frank Mill with 14 goals. In the UEFA Cup Jupp Heynckes brought him additionally in four operations against 1.FC Magdeburg and Dundee United in the 1981 season / 82nd In the following rounds Pinkall could not build on its balance sheets for the years 1981 and 1982 and was finally in the series in 1984/85 to the AC Beerschot (13 ) borrowed. The attack formation of Heynckes 's team was now in the rule: Hans -Jörg Criens, Frank Mill, Ewald Lienen. After his return to the Bökelberg he came in the 1985/86 season again to 21 league games with three hits and was also used in the UEFA Cup against Lech Poznan and Sparta Rotterdam. His last Bundesliga Match of Pinkall on 26 April 1986 in the 0:6 defeat of Bayern Munich in Moenchengladbach.