Dirk Lotsy

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Dirk Lotsy and the Dutch national team (1905)

Dirk Nicolaas Lotsy (born July 3, 1882 in Dordrecht , † March 27, 1965 in The Hague ; actually Dirk Nicolaas Lotsij ) was a Dutch football player . He played ten international matches for the Dutch national football team and scored one goal.

Career

Lotsy played for the DFC from his hometown of Dordrecht. On April 30, 1905, he was one of the eleven players who played the first international match for the Dutch national team, winning 4-1 in Antwerp against Belgium . After that, however , the midfielder had to wait four years before playing for the next time in Rotterdam - again in a 4-1 win against Belgium. Without playing another game, he was appointed to the Dutch Olympic squad in 1912 . With his team he advanced 3-1 against Austria in the semi-finals, which "Holland" lost against Denmark - at that time with the strongest team on the European mainland - with 1: 4. The team then defeated Finland 9-0 in the game for third place , which on the one hand was a record victory for the Netherlands that has not been surpassed to this day and on the other hand meant that they repeated their bronze medal win of 1908 . In this as well as in the two previous games Lotsy was team captain .

His next assignment after the Olympic Games was on November 17, 1912 in Leipzig . Against the host German team it was the fourth game overall and the third that the Dutch won (the third encounter between the two teams ended in a 5-5 draw). After a break of one and a half years, or five international matches, he was on April 5, 1914 again as team captain and again against Germany on the field; in the 4: 4 draw in Amsterdam he scored his only goal (to 3: 3 intermediate result) in the national dress. Six weeks later he had his last appearance for his home country against Denmark; the world war prevented further games of the national team for the next five years.

After his playing days, Lotsy made a name for himself as a football columnist for decades. In 1930 his book Oude voetbalgedachten ("Old Football Thoughts ") was published.

Lotsy was a great-uncle of the later KNVB chairman Karel Lotsy .

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personal data
SURNAME Lotsy, Dirk
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lotsy, Dirk Nicolaas (full name); Lotsij, Dirk; Lotsij, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Dordrecht
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1965
Place of death The hague