Joaquín Montañés

Joaquín "Jo" Montañés (born 15 August 1953 in Talavera de la Reina) is a retired Spanish footballer who spent his entire professional career with German 2. Bundesliga club Alemannia Aachen.

Joaquín Montañés
Personal information
Full name Joaquín Montañés
Date of birth (1953-08-15) 15 August 1953
Place of birth Talavera de la Reina, Spain
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
Eschweiler SG 1965–1967
Stolberger SV 1967–1972
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1972–1989 Alemannia Aachen 541 (11)
1989–1993 Borussia Freialdenhoven
Managerial career
1989–1993 Borussia Freialdenhoven
1993–1997 FSV Geilenkirchen-Hünshoven
1997–2000 SuS Herzogenrath
2006 SC 07/86 Setterich
2006–2007 Rot-Weiß Frelenberg
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career

Montañés, born in Talavera de la Reina, Spain in 1953, moved to Germany with his parents when he was 14 years old.[1]

Montañés joined Aachen in 1972 after having played for the youth teams of Eschweiler SG and Stolberger SV. Aachen was playing in the tier two Regionalliga West at the time, having been relegated from the Bundesliga at the end of the 1969–70 season. He would play for the club in the Regionalliga until 1974, in the new 2. Bundesliga Nord until 1981 and in the single-division 2. Bundesliga, making 541 appearances for the club all up. Montañés' 477 2. Bundesliga games[2] is the second-most for any player in the league and the most played for an individual club.[3]

Montañés retired from professional football to work as a coach of local amateur teams while Alemannia Aachen, in its first season without him, suffered relegation from the 2. Bundesliga.[4]

References
  1. "An der Seitenlinie hat er den großen Cruyff abgegrätscht". aachener-zeitung.de (in German). Aachener Zeitung. 13 March 2009. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
  2. Arnhold, Matthias (12 July 2017). "Joaquín Montañés - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga". RSSSF. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
  3. Arnhold, Matthias (12 July 2017). "Germany - All-Time Most Matches Played in 2. Bundesliga". RSSSF. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
  4. "2. Bundesliga 1989/1990 » 38. Spieltag" [2. Bundesliga: 1989–90]. weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 2 July 2016.
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