René Pontoni

Pontoni in the jersey of San Lorenzo

René Alejandro Pontoni ( born May 18, 1920 in Santa Fe, † May 14, 1983 ) was an Argentine footballer.

Career

Club career

René Pontoni, born 1920 in Santa Fe, started playing football at CA Newell 's Old Boys in Argentina's third largest city of Rosario. In the club he played from 1940 to 1944 and played 110 times in the first Argentine football league, La Liga. This reach him 67 goals for Newell's Old Boys.

In 1944 he left the club and joined CA San Lorenzo de Almagro in the quarter bonarenser Almagro, for whom he made ​​his debut on April 22, 1945 against Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata. San Lorenzo won with 4:2 and Pontoni scored three of the four goals of his team. In the club where he played, among others, along with other football greats of that time like Rinaldo Martino or the native Spaniard Ángel Zubieta, Pontoni kicked for four years and scored 66 goals in 102 league games. In the 1946 season he won with CA San Lorenzo de Almagro, the Argentine Football Championship after in La Liga after all the game day of the first rank four points clear at the Boca Juniors was occupied. San Lorenzo was there with a total of ninety gates of the best attack in the league, which Pontoni Mario Boyé had left from Boca Juniors in first place in the scoresheet.

1949 ended René Pontonis time as a player at CA San Lorenzo de Almagro and he moved to Independiente Santa Fe in Colombia. In Bogotá, he made 44 games in league play and scored 27 goals. In 1952, he then went to Associação Portuguesa de Desportos to Brazil, from where he returned after only one year went to San Lorenzo de Almagro in 1954 and there ended his active career in the same year. After the end of his time as a football player, he ran together with his former opponent Mario Boyé a pizzeria in Buenos Aires and also coached some unterklassige Argentine clubs.

National

René Pontoni made ​​1942-1947 nineteen matches in the Argentine national football team, scoring nineteen goals, which corresponds to an average strike rate of a goal per game. With Argentina's national team, he participated in three South American championships, a World Cup, he missed due to the Second World War and the associated break for World Cup Soccer Championships 1938-1950. For this, he took three part in the Copa América, and both in 1945 in Chile, 1946 own country and 1947 in Ecuador ended the Argentine team as the tournament winner.