Gerard Bergholtz
Gerardus Maria Catherina Henricus " Pummie " Bergholtz ( born August 29, 1939 in Maastricht ) is a former Dutch football player who was in the 1960s with Feyenoord Rotterdam by Dutch masters and with the RSC Anderlecht three times Belgian champion. Twelve times he came into the Dutch national team for use.
Club career
Bergholtz started his footballer career as a child of six years at Rapid, one run by Jesuits club of his hometown. At 18, the striker came to MVV Maastricht, where he began his professional career on August 25, 1957, a 0-4 defeat at Ajax Amsterdam. Here he also got his nickname " Pummie ". Four years he was active for the MVV before it in 1961 for a transfer fee of 80,000 guilders for reigning Dutch champions Feyenoord Rotterdam moved - at that time a very high amount for a 21-year- old who was, however, already been used twice in the national had.
At Feyenoord he counted after the change is equal to the root formation; the first time he was in the Eredivisie on August 20, 1961 in a 6-1 victory at Rapid JC working for his new employer. His first international assignment for the new club outside right in front of the right half Rinus Bennaars was a game in the European Cup competition at the Ullevi Stadium against IFK Gothenburg, Feyenoord won 3-0, but without scoring Bergholtz. Feyenoord could repeat in the new season in the Eredivisie last year's success, so Bergholtz in his first season could celebrate a league title. In four seasons, he arrived in Rotterdam on 102 missions with 27 goals in the Eredivisie.
At this time in the Netherlands only six players a club could earn a maximum of 10,000 guilders, the club refused him a raise, so that Berholtz 1965 went over the border to the Belgian giants RSC Anderlecht. In his first three seasons he won the Purple - White four titles, namely respectively the championship and 1967 in addition to the Belgian Cup. He trained with Jan Mulder and Paul Van Himst a storm, who scored together 49 goals in the season 1966/67, in the First Division. In his final season at Anderlecht, he came only to four league operations, so that he moved within Brussels in 1970 to White AC Racing, with whom he 1972/73 reached the UEFA Cup competition. Here he remained one more season after Racing White Daring Molenbeek and in 1973 merged to become RWD Molenbeek.
1974 joined the now 35 -year-old for RAEC Mons in the tweede class, where he ended his active career in 1976.
National
Bergholtz already belonged in March 1961 in a friendly match against Belgium in the squad of the Netherlands, but did not play. But already on 30 April 1961, he was allowed to accumulate for the first time in Oranje in the World Cup qualifier against Hungary; However, the Netherlands lost in de Kuip with 0:3. Already 14 days later it ran for his team Maastricht and something enjoyable; in Leipzig there was also in the World Cup qualifiers with a 1-1 draw.
In his next game Bergholtz had to wait almost exactly one year; then it went in the Amsterdam Olympic Stadium against the reigning world champions Brazil and won 1-0 Elftal. After another year without the use he made 1964/65 a further eight games for the national team, including three appearances in qualifying for the World Cup 1966. Again, after two years in which he was not called Bond coach Georg Kessler 1967 brought him back again for a game in the European Championship qualifiers. As in his first race it was on May 10, 1965 at Népstadion against Hungary, and also this game - Bergholtz ' twelfth and last in the national team - was lost with 1:2. And also in this match remained Bergholtz as in the eleven previous matches without scoring.
Coach
After his playing career Bergholtz worked as manager of several unterklassiger Belgian clubs, so in Lanaken, Blizen and Patro Eisden in Maasmechelen. 1979-1981 he was two seasons instructor at second division VV St. Truiden; In 1987, he held this position for a short time from the first division also AA Gent.