Inge Vermeulen

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Inge Vermeulen (November 2014)

Inge Joanna Francisca Vermeulen (born January 6, 1985 in Americana , São Paulo , Brazil ; † January 10, 2015 in Utrecht , Netherlands ) was a Brazilian-Dutch hockey player .

After Vermeulen played nine international matches for the Dutch national hockey team from 2008 to 2010 , she joined the Brazilian national hockey team in 2010 , for which she was active until her death. With the national team of the Netherlands she was European champion in 2009 . At club level, the goalkeeper played for the last eight years until her death at Stichtse Cricket en Hockey Club ( SCHC for short ), the fourth largest hockey club in the Netherlands.

life and career

Club career

Inge Vermeulen in the gate of the SCHC (November 2014)

Born in early 1985 in the Brazilian city of Americana in the interior of the state of São Paulo, Vermeulen was adopted as a child by a Dutch couple and spent her childhood in Utrecht. She began her career as a hockey player at HBS Craeyenhout in The Hague, the Netherlands . From there she came via the venerable HC Bloemendaal in May 2007 to the Stichtse Cricket en Hockey Club from Bilthoven , near Utrecht, which is also over 100 years old , where she was supposed to compensate for the departure of Beth Storry , who was increasingly concentrating on her national team career. At the time of her departure from SCHC, the then third goalkeeper of the national team was trained by Bilthoven coach Erik Jazet , a two-time Olympic champion.

In her first season with the new club, when she was named the best goalkeeper in the league, she reached fourth place in the main round and qualified with her team for the play-offs. There she and the team were eliminated from the eventual champions HC 's-Hertogenbosch in the semi-finals. The team suffered a similar fate in the following season of 2008/09, when the team again qualified in fourth place for the championship play-offs and again lost to HC 's-Hertogenbosch in the semi-finals. In 2009/10, with a fifth place after the main round, it was not enough for participation in the play-offs that were decisive for the championship. The team achieved significantly better results in the following season 2010/11, after the departure of the previous coach Dave Smolenaars and the engagement of Janneke Schopman as the new coach.

Under Schopman, the team barely made it to the championship finals after finishing second in the basic round. In 2011/12, Vermeulen and her team again achieved comparable placements as in their early years at the club. On a fourth place after the main round followed the renewed elimination in the semifinals; this time against the Larensche Mixed Hockey Club . In the 2012/13 season, the team around the committed goalkeeper achieved second place in the main round behind the overwhelming opponent from Den Bosch and barely missed a final in the play-offs. The Brazilian-born had her best season to date, however, in 2013/14. Den Bosch could be overthrown from the top of the table at the end of the main round, which was very seldom achieved in the ten years before. In the play-offs, the team was only just eliminated with a total score of 4: 5 against Den Bosch, but qualified for participation in the EuroHockey Club Champions Cup in 2015 with this season end position . In the 2014/15 season, Vermeulen was the She also appeared as a junior coach at her club, was still in use in numerous games of her team and was again on a good course with the team to finish the season in the top third of the table.

National team career

In 2008, Vermeulen, who had previously been active in various Dutch youth teams, was nominated for the first time for the Dutch national hockey team and made her international debut on the field on April 8, 2008 in a game against Germany (2-1). This year, the Brazilian-Dutch dual citizen was also used as a regular in all five games of the Netherlands at the European Indoor Hockey Championships in Almería , with the Dutch women winning the bronze medal after beating Scotland 4-1 . She later took part with the team in the Women's Champions Trophy 2009 in Sydney , where the Dutch women won the bronze medal after a 5-2 win over the German women in the third place match. About a month later, Inge Vermeulen was also in the Dutch squad for the European Field Hockey Championships in Amstelveen , where she was clearly the best goalkeeper of the tournament. With the team after the three group games with 24 to 0 goals, she confidently reached the final round, where the team won the gold medal after a 5-1 victory over Spain and a 3-2 victory over Germany and thus once again became world champions and continued to celebrate the clear number one in the world rankings. Inge Vermeulen was in action for the Netherlands for the last time in 2010 and soon afterwards she decided for the national team of her country of birth , for which she came to regular appearances from 2012. She saw the participation of Brazil (as host) in the hockey tournament of the 2016 Summer Olympics as one of the main reasons for the association change . In preparation for this major tournament, the Brazilians around Inge Vermeulen, who also appeared as the goalkeeping coach of the Brazilian men's national team , competed at the South American Hockey Championships in 2013, where she came fourth with the team and was ultimately the best Goalkeeper of the tournament was awarded.

death

Four days after her 30th birthday, Inge Vermeulen was found dead at home in Utrecht. She committed suicide ; Nothing is known about the exact reasons.

successes

With the SCHC
  • 1 × best goalkeeper in the Hoofd class: 2007/08
  • 1 × Dutch runner-up: 2013/14

Web links

Commons : Inge Vermeulen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b sportv.globo.com: Surpresa com morte, irmã diz que goleira adoraria vir ao Rio em 2016 Article from January 19, 2015, accessed on January 28, 2015 (Portuguese)
  2. ↑ a b ahebrasil.com.br: Suicídio foi a causa da morte de goleira da seleção brasileira Article from January 14, 2015, accessed on January 28, 2015 (Portuguese)
  3. ↑ a b ad.nl: Inge Vermeulen nieuwe keepster SCHC article from May 10, 2007, accessed on January 22, 2015 (Dutch)
  4. ↑ a b nu.nl: Oud-keepster Oranje-hockeysters Inge Vermeulen (30) overleden article from January 13, 2015, accessed on January 22, 2015 (Dutch)
  5. ↑ Goleira Inge Joanna Vermeulen, da seleção brasileira de hóquei, morre na Holanda aos 30 anos (Portuguese), accessed on January 28, 2015
  6. ↑ 2013 South American Championships (Women) - Goalkeeper of the tournament: Inge Joanna Vermeulen (BRA) (English), accessed on January 28, 2015
  7. ↑ rtvutrecht.nl: Hockeywereld sta stil bij dood Inge Vermeulen article from January 13, 2015, accessed on January 27, 2015 (Dutch)
personal data
SURNAME Vermeulen, Inge
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vermeulen, Inge Joanna Francisca (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian-Dutch field hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Americana , São Paulo, Brazil
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 2015
Place of death Utrecht , Netherlands