Coen Moulijn

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Coen Moulijn
Coen Moulijn (1968) .jpg
Coen Moulijn (1968)
Personnel
Surname Coenraadt Moulijn
birthday February 15, 1937
place of birth Rotterdam ,  Netherlands
date of death January 4, 2011
Place of death Rotterdam, Netherlands
size 172 cm
position Left mid-field
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1954-1955 Xerxes Rotterdam
1955-1972 Feyenoord Rotterdam 456 (77)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1956-1969 Netherlands 38 (4)
1 Only league games are given.

Coenraadt Moulijn (born February 15, 1937 in Rotterdam , Netherlands ; † January 4, 2011 ibid) was a Dutch football player who won the World Cup , the European Cup , five times the Dutch championship and twice the double with the club Feijenoord from his hometown Rotterdam won. He also made 38 appearances for the Dutch national team .

Career

In the club

The left winger played in his youth for the Rotterdam club Xerxes, where he signed his first semi-professional contract in 1954. But in 1955, a year before the Eredivisie was introduced , he switched to Feijenoord, which “snatched him from under the nose” of local rival Sparta for 25,000 guilders . On the left attacking side of the Rotterdam team - he played on the outside as well as on the half-left position - “Coentje”, as he was called due to his “slim and inconspicuous” stature in the belittling form, quickly became a crowd favorite. At his best times, half of the spectators only came to the stadium because of him - his dribbling and his crosses were inimitable. In 487 league games, still a club record in 2010, he scored 84 goals for Feijenoord; Moulijn - an "artist on the left wing" - was far more important and effective as a goal scorer - on the other hand, as a flank giver and preparer for goals from center strikers like Ove Kindvall or Cor van der Gijp .

In the UEFA Cup , Moulijn, who is just 1.72 meters tall, weighs 62 kilograms and is agile - who led sports journalist Ben de Graaf of the Volkskrant to state that he had "something from Matthews , the British ball magician of yore" - twice won Use, in the European Cup of national champions 28 times. After Feijenoord had failed in the semi-finals at Benfica Lisbon under coach Franz Fuchs in 1963 , it had to face Real Madrid in the first round in September 1965 . After Moulijn was violently fouled shortly before the end of the game, when the score was 2: 1 - not necessarily everyday football at that time - Moulijn and his teammates attacked his opponent Vicente Miera . The game threatened to get out of hand within seconds. Reporter Bob Spaak's television commentary became one of his best-known: “Coen, Coen, please control yourself! Children, children, that can't be a horrible spectacle! ”Feijenoord won 2-1, but in the second leg they lost 5-0 at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu , and Ferenc Puskás four goals against Eddy Pieters Graafland scored.

In 1970 the team reached the final , in which the veterans of coach Ernst Happel around Pieters Graafland, Henk Wery , Theo van Duivenbode , Wim van Hanegem and Moulijn thanks to two goals from Rinus Israël and Kindvall against the Celtic in Milan's San Siro Stadium FC from Glasgow won 2-1 after extra time.

It was not until 1972, after 17 years in the same club, that Moulijn ended his career as a football player. For his farewell game on June 9, 1972, the Uruguayan national team played in Rotterdam .

National team

Coen Moulijn (left) and Roel Wiersma singing the national anthem before the Germany-Netherlands international match on October 21, 1959 in Cologne

Moulijn had just turned 19 when he was already part of the senior team of bond coach Max Merkel . He made his debut in the orange dress on April 8, 1956 in a 1-0 win against Belgium in Antwerp . It wasn't until two years later, on April 13, 1958, that he scored his first of a total of four goals in the national jersey in his fifth international match: In a 7-2 win, again in and against Belgium, he contributed to the 3-0 goal; Abe Lenstra and Faas Wilkes had two hits each , while Fons van Wissen and Jan Notermans also scored ; for Belgium Henri Coppens was able to overcome goalkeeper Frans de Munck twice. The years from 1958 to 1961, when Lenstra, Wilkes, Kees Rijvers and Tonny van der Linden were attacking partners, were his most fertile time in the national team and led Oranje to numerous victories: a 9: 1 against Belgium, a 5: 1 against Denmark , a 7-1 against Norway .

Against France in April 1963, Moulijn gave Henk Groot the winning goal to make it 1-0 after dribbling past both Maryan Wisnieski and right-back Jean Wendling . His most significant own goal in the national jersey he scored in the friendly against England on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the KNVB on December 9, 1964. To the astonishment of everyone, including the English goalkeeper Tony Waiters , who was standing between the posts as a substitute for Gordon Banks , he pulled did not take off with his strong left foot, but dared a sneaky long-range shot with the right - and scored to 1-0. It was the first time that the Netherlands took the lead against England's A-Eleven, and it was - despite Jimmy Greaves' equalizer shortly before the end - the first time that Oranje did not lose to the English pros.

In the European Championship in 1964 Moulijn was used as well as in the two qualifications for the 1966 World Cup and the 1970 World Cup . In the latter competition, after more than 13 years against Bulgaria, he completed his 38th and last match in the Elftal on October 22, 1969 , before finally leaving the shirt number 11 to his successor on the left wing position, Rob Rensenbrink . The fact that there were no more international matches over the years was due on the one hand to the strong competitor Piet Keizer , and on the other to Moulijn's style of play, which some association coaches considered to be ineffective, because the "fumbler" Moulijn "saved his energy for ten decisive actions ".

successes

Alongside and after an active career

Moulijn's statue in front of De kuip

Moulijn opened a women's and men's fashion shop in Rotterdam as early as 1961, where he still worked with his wife Adrie in 2009. Two events in 1972 accelerated his decision to end his career. In 1971 a shunter caught Moulijn's car; he narrowly escaped death, but recovered quickly and was back on the field a month later. In April 1972, malevolent contemporaries spread the rumor that Coen Moulijn had committed suicide, which he could only refute with the help of the police. A little later he put the end of his career.

In 1999, when club fans voted for the Feyenoorder van de Eeuw , the “Feyenoorder of the Century”, Moulijn only came second behind Wim van Hanegem . But Moulijn was still referred to as “Mister Feyenoord”. In October 2009 he himself unveiled a statue in his honor in front of De Kuip .

The 73-year-old suffered a cerebral infarction on New Year's Eve 2010/11. He died a few days later in hospital as a result of the stroke. Many of his contemporaries saw him as "the best player Feyenoord ever had"; Rinus Israël , who played with Moulijn at Feijenoord for six years, added:

“A humble man. That was probably also the reason why he was so popular with the public. "

Web links

Commons : Coen Moulijn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Mik Schots, Coen Moulijn (1937), De trappappinge dribbelaar , in: Mik Schots & Jan Luitzen, Tovenaars in Oranje . AW Bruna, Utrecht 2004, ISBN 90-229-8813-9 , pp. 54ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Coen Moulijn maakt ook as mens indruk ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Radio Nederland Wereldomroep on October 28th, 2009, viewed on January 3rd, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rnw.nl
  2. ↑ a b c d Portret Mister Feyenoord Coen Moulijn, 1937-2011 ( Memento from January 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Voetbal International from January 4, 2011, viewed on January 6, 2011
  3. ↑ Mik Schots, Coen Moulijn (1937), De trappellinge dribbelaar , in: Mik Schots & Jan Luitzen, Tovenaars in Oranje . AW Bruna, Utrecht 2004, ISBN 90-229-8813-9 , p. 54
  4. ↑ “In zijn hoogtijdagen kwam de help van de supportersschare alleen voor hem naar het stadium. Onnavolgbaar were zijn dribbels en voorzetten. ”Mik Schots, Coen Moulijn (1937), De clattering dribbelaar , in: Mik Schots & Jan Luitzen, Tovenaars in Oranje . AW Bruna, Utrecht 2004, ISBN 90-229-8813-9 , p. 54
  5. ↑ a b c Oer-Feyenoorder Coen Moulijn overleden ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Feyenoord website January 4, 2011, viewed January 4, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.feyenoord.nl
  6. ↑ Coen Moulijn's European Cup statistics at Voetbalstats.nl
  7. ↑ Mik Schots, Coen Moulijn (1937) - De trappelende dribbelar , in: Mik Schots & Jan Luitzen, Tovenaars in Oranje . AW Bruna, Utrecht 2004, ISBN 90-229-8813-9 , p. 59
  8. ^ "Coen, Coen, beheers ever asjeblieft. Jongens, jongens, dit kan toch niet. Wat een afschuwelijke vertoning. ”, Quoted from Oud sports journalist Bob Spaak overleden , NRC Handelsblad from June 12, 2011, with a video recording of the incident
  9. ↑ Website of the company ( Memento of the original dated January 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , viewed January 3, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.coenmoulijn.nl
  10. ↑ Van Hanegem Feyenoorder van de Eeuw ( Memento from February 22, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), Voetbal International from 17 ,. December 1999, sighted January 6, 2011
  11. ↑ Moulijn: Ik ga mezelf steeds mooier vinden , AD.nl of October 26, 2009, viewed on January 3, 2011
  12. ↑ Coen Moulijn taken by herseninfarct ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Feyenoord website January 2, 2011, viewed January 3, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.feyenoord.nl
  13. ↑ "A humble man. Daarom was hij waarschijnlijk ook zo populair bij het publiek", Rinus Israël quoted in Israel: Een humble man , De Telegraaf Telesport of January 4, 2011, viewed on January 6, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Moulijn, Coen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moulijn, Coenraadt (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotterdam
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 2011
Place of death Rotterdam