Bram Appel
| Bram Appel | ||
 Bram Appel (1963)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Abraham Leonardus Appel | |
| birthday | October 30, 1921 | |
| place of birth | Rotterdam , Netherlands | |
| date of death | October 31, 1997 | |
| Place of death | Geleen , Netherlands | |
| position | Center Forward | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| Blauw Zwart Wassenaar | ||
| SVT 1935 Wassenaar | ||
| 1940-1942 | Wassenaar Archipelago | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1942-1944 | Hertha BSC | |
| 1945-1947 | ADO The Hague | |
| 1947-1948 | VV Sittard | |
| 1948-1949 | Sittardse Boys | |
| 1949-1954 | Stade de Reims | |
| 1954-1955 | Lausanne Sports | |
| 1955-1960 | Fortuna 54 Geleen | |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1948-1957 | Netherlands | 12 (10) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| Lausanne Sports | ||
| RKS Volendam | ||
| Fortuna 54 Geleen | ||
| Beringen (Belgium) | ||
| PSV Eindhoven | ||
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Abraham Leonardus Appel , Bram Appel for short (born October 30, 1921 in Rotterdam , † October 31, 1997 in Geleen , Netherlands ), was a Dutch football player and coach .
The club career
Appel played in the middle of the storm and was a real goal getter; He earned his first spurs at small clubs from Wassenaar near The Hague , where he grew up. During the Second World War - the Netherlands was occupied by the German Wehrmacht - he was brought to the German Reich as a forced laborer in the war industry . His luck was that he was a good footballer, because as the Second World War continued, even top teams like Hertha BSC ran out of players. In this situation, forced laborers with a talent for football were an easy-to-use substitute, and so in 1942 Appel was signed by the then Hertha coach Hans Sauerwein. “He is withdrawn from factory work, comes into an office, gets his own room in Ruhleben and higher food rations. Appel is not the only forced laborer Hertha uses. Two other players are known to the Documentation Center [Forced Labor]: the two Dutchmen Eli de Heer and Nout Bierings. "
For Hertha, Appel scored 15 goals in four games in the Tschammer Cup , albeit against mostly weak opponents in the first rounds on the Gau level ( 1. FC Guben , FC Fürstenwalde, Tennis Borussia Berlin and TSG Rostock ). In the following season (1943/44) he was with the Hertha Gauliga champion of Berlin-Brandenburg, scored 12 goals in 14 appearances, added four more goals in the three final rounds of the German championship and rounded this balance in the regional ones that were still being played Playing the Tschammer Cup (which was canceled in early August 1944) with two goals in three games.
After the war, Bram Appel returned to the Netherlands and played for ADO Den Haag and VV Sittard and Sittardse Boys. In 1948 he was appointed to the national team of the Oranjes for the first time against England . From the season 1949-50 he was a member, were also the Bayern Munich had been interested, for five years the legendary French top team Stade de Reims and was thus one of the first Dutch footballer, who stood as a professional contract with a foreign club. With Reims he won the cup in the first year , 1952/53 also national champion and won the Coupe Latine in 1953 . He was three times in the top scorer list of Division 1 (1951 in place 6, 1953 and 1954 in each case in second place). In total, he played 154 first division games for the Rémois and scored 96 goals - a record that underlines Appel's importance for the club as well as this information: in the championship season 1952/53 he scored 30 goals in 32 league games and was the year of the cup victory in the last six matches of the Coupe de France alone, including the final, eleven times successfully. Bram Appel should be mentioned in the same breath as all the greats of the early 50s at Stade de Reims (such as Raymond Kopa , Albert Batteux , Robert Jonquet , Léon Glovacki , Armand Penverne and Roger Marche ).
In 1954 he moved to Lausanne-Sports in Switzerland ; During this time he was called back to the Dutch national team. He ended his playing career in the Netherlands with Fortuna Geleen .
Stations
- Blauw Zwart, SVT 1935, Archipel (all from Wassenaar)
- Hertha BSC (1942–1944)
- ADO The Hague (1945–?)
- VV Sittard
- Sittardse Boys
- Stade de Reims (1949–1954)
- Lausanne Sports (1954–?)
- Fortuna 54 Geleen
The national player
Bram Appel was appointed to the Dutch national team for the first time in July 1948 , for which he also appeared at the 1948 Olympic football tournament ; there he managed the 1-0 win at 3: 4 nV against the British selection. This was followed by a longer interruption, which on the one hand was probably due to the fact that the Dutch football association KNVB did without foreign professionals; Above all, however, Appel had publicly criticized Karel Lotsy , the chairman of the association's selection committee, who was in office until the 1950s , for being all too willing to implement the orders of the German occupying power during the Second World War.
First under coach - again only between October 1955 and April 1957 Max Merkel - in the Oranje used Appel brought it to a total of twelve caps and scored ten goals in this county. These included two international matches against the Federal Republic of Germany and the Saarland .
One of his most important impressions on the international stage was a purely unofficial match: one month after the flood of the century that hit large parts of the Netherlands in February 1953, Dutch foreign professionals played a charity match against a French selection made up mainly of players from Stade de Reims and Racing Paris was formed, to: Appel, who played "on the wrong side" against Kopa & Co., contributed a goal to the 2-1 victory of the "thrown together" Dutch in front of 40,000 spectators in the Parisian Prinzenpark . This spontaneous help for the flood victims is still remembered today by many Dutch people as the so-called Watersnoodwedstrijd (Eng. "Flood sacrifice game").
Coaching stations
After his active time, Abraham Appel worked as a trainer, among others for Lausanne-Sports, RKS Volendam , Fortuna 54 Geleen, in Beringen (Belgium) and at PSV Eindhoven , with which he became national champion .
He then retired from the football business and worked as a real estate agent .
literature
- Jean Cornu: Les grandes equipes françaises de football. Famot, Genève 1978.
- Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau / Tony Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2001 ISBN 2-911698-21-5 .
- Michel Hubert / Jacques Pernet: Stade de Reims. Sa legend. Atelier Graphique, Reims 1992 ISBN 2-9506272-2-6 .
- L'Équipe (ed.): Stade de Reims. Un club à la Une. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2006 ISBN 2-915535-41-8 .
- Lucien Perpère / Victor Sinet / Louis Tanguy: Reims de nos amours. 1931/1981 - 50 ans de Stade de Reims. Alphabet Cube, Reims 1981.
- Jacques and Thomas Poncelet: Supporters du Stade de Reims 1935-2005. Self-published, Reims 2005 ISBN 2-9525704-0-X .
- Daniel Koerfer: Hertha under the swastika. A Berlin football club in the Third Reich , Die Werkstatt publishing house, Göttingen, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89533-644-7 .
- Alina Schwermer: Inevitably on the pitch. When the sports clubs ran out of players in the course of the Second World War, forced laborers were also used - for example, Bram Appel became a striker at Hertha BSC , taz - the daily newspaper, December 21, 2018.
Web links
- Bram Appel in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Remarks
- ↑ Alina Schwermer: Forcibly on the square
- ↑ Match report Olympic football tournament 1948
- ^ Team photo of the Dutch team at the time
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Appel, Bram |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Appel, Abraham Leonardus (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rotterdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 31, 1997 |
| Place of death | Jellies |