Huug de Groot
Henri Franciscus "Huug" de Groot (born May 7, 1890 in Rotterdam , † April 18, 1957 in Scheveningen ) was a Dutch football player . He played nine international matches for the Dutch national team from 1912 to 1914 . At the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912 he won the bronze medal with the Dutch team.
Henri de Groot played for Sparta Rotterdam and was nicknamed "Huug" early on, probably after the philosopher Hugo Grotius ( Dutch : Hugo or Huigh de Groot ). As a striker, he was one of the guarantors of the club's success, which from 1909 to 1915 won five Dutch champions and five major cup competitions. De Groot and Bok de Korver were the "star players" at the time; together with Piet van der Wolk and Cas Ruffelse they were called the "four musketeers". The trainer for the Rotterdamers was Edgar Chadwick , who also looked after the national team from 1908 to 1913. De Korver had been with the Oranje team since the first international match , since 1910 as team captain ; the seven years younger de Groot, the "Sparta cannon", was used for the first time in 1912.
In the friendly against Belgium in Antwerp , he made his debut on March 10, 1912, as did Wim Bronger and Piet Valkenburg . While it was the only international match for the two defenders, de Groot was appointed to the squad for the Olympic Games. In the first game, when the Netherlands knocked hosts Sweden 4-3 out of the competition after extra time, de Groot was on the pitch for the entire season. He was also a fixture in the Oranje team in the next few games , and in the game for third place he scored the first two goals for his home country in a 9-0 win against Finland .
On March 24, 1913 he was, together with de Korver and another "Spartan", namely Piet van der Wolk , in the team that was in the seventh game against England's amateur selection , against which it was in 1907 with 2:12 the highest today Defeat of the Dutch team, achieved the first victory with a 2: 1 - a victory over the "motherland of football", which triggered euphoria and even inspired the poet August Heyting to write a 2,600 line poem. De Groot scored both goals for the Dutch.
De Groot made his last game in Orange on May 17, 1914. At 3: 4 in Copenhagen he scored the last of his six international goals. The outbreak of World War I prevented further hits and games .
Web links
- Huug de Groot in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- International match statistics de Groots at voetbalstats.nl
Individual evidence
- ↑ Geschiedenis van Sparta ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the club's homepage
- ↑ Bijnames van voetballers ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Bok, like what dat (ook alweer)? , Peter Visser on October 25, 2007, viewed on April 7, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Groot, Huug de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Groot, Henri Franciscus de (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rotterdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 18, 1957 |
| Place of death | Scheveningen |