Aria de Vroet
Arie de Vroet (born November 9, 1918 in Oud-Beijerland , † September 8, 1999 in Woudenberg ) was a Dutch football player . The midfielder of Feijenoord was from 1938 to 1949 in the national team active before as a professional in France who concluded his career.
Club career
De Vroet started his career at Feijenoord when he was 18. In the Rotterdam team he first played in attack , later he moved to left midfield . He was considered an excellent technician with great enthusiasm. By 1950 he made 230 league games for Feijenoord, in which he scored 31 goals. In 1941 he became champions with the team . In 1950 he went to France as a professional, where he earned his living for two years (64 games, two goals) at Le Havre AC and then one more season (24 games, two goals) at FC Rouen .
National team
On October 23, 1938, de Vroet was one of three debutants in the national team, which reached a 2-2 draw against Denmark in Copenhagen . While it was their only game in Orange for Gerard van Leur and Piet Dumortier , de Vroet did not appear in the next matches either, but was called back to the squad in March 1940. Although he was only on the bench in Antwerp against Belgium , he was allowed to play his second 90-minute game 14 days later in the 4-5 defeat in Rotterdam against Luxembourg - the game in which Abe Lenstra made his debut. Another match followed before the occupation by the German Reich interrupted the national team's play.
After the war, de Vroet came back to the team in the second game in 1946. Until the end of 1949, he only had to pass before one game in Elftal . In 14 of his 19 post-war missions he wore the captain's armband , including at both games of the 1948 Olympic Games in Great Britain . In his last game - on December 11, 1949, it was in Amsterdam like de Vroet's debut against Denmark - he was team captain of an eleven in which football greats like Abe Lenstra, Piet Kraak , Rinus Schaap , Mick Clavan and Theo Timmermans were among his teammates belonged.
After he went to France as a professional in 1950, he was no longer eligible for the KNVB's “amateur eleven”. He celebrated another international appearance in 1953 in Watersnoodwedstrijd , a benefit game between Dutch foreign professionals in Paris against France for the benefit of the victims of the flood disaster of 1953 .
Trainer
From 1961 de Vroet was active as a trainer; initially in Groningen at Be Quick and Velocitas, and in between two years at SVV Schiedam. He then spent two seasons with VV Heerenveen before returning to Le Havre for one season at Le HAC . After a season at DOS , he was employed by the KNVB until he was 63; Among other things, he was assistant to bond coaches Jan Zwartkruis and Ernst Happel and worked as a trainer in the youth and amateur field.
Web links
- Arie de Vroet in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- National team profile on the KNVB website
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Arie de Vroet koppelde een uitstekende techniek aan grote inzet." , Feyenoord Wie is Wie on the website feyenoordgeschiedenis.nl (Feyenoord story), viewed on November 4, 2008
- ↑ Portrait ( memento of December 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at fr-fanatic.nl , viewed on November 4, 2008
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vroet, Arie de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch soccer player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 9, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oud-Beijerland |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 8, 1999 |
| Place of death | Woudenberg |