Jan Hall

Jan Halle (born February 17, 1903 in Deventer , † January 6, 1986 ) was a Dutch football player .

Jan Halle played in the 1920s and 1930s for the Go Ahead club in his hometown of Deventer, with whom he won the national championship in 1922. Eight years later he celebrated another national championship title with Go Ahead, and he was still active in 1933, when the club reached its fourth championship.

Halle was the older brother of go-ahead goalkeeper Leo Halle , who played 15 games for the Dutch national team ; Jan Halle played twice as a defender in the national team, but the brothers never played together. His first game was on March 17, 1929, a 3-2 win in a friendly against Switzerland at the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam . It was a game that Bondscoach Bob Glendenning was experimenting with; four players from the starting line-up made their first match for Oranje , in addition to Halle these were Willy van Zwieteren , Adje Gerritse and Jaap Barendregt ; in addition, another three players only came to their second and third international appearances.

The chronicler of the magazine Ons Zeeland saw in the run-up to this “makeover” a “bloodletting ... which with the same probability can either be justified or misplaced.” In retrospect, despite the victory, it was more the latter, because these young players could leave later only Beb Bakhuys and Joop van Nellen prevail in the national team; everyone else stayed on less than four missions. Halle had another chance to prevail eight weeks after this game, but did not use it in the 3-1 defeat in the prestige duel with Belgium in Antwerp ; the encounter on May 5, 1929 was to be his last appearance in Orange .

The Dutch football historian Van Emmenes later described Halle that he was "in my opinion the best middle runner in the Netherlands and that he was extraordinarily valuable for his club."

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Go Ahead Eagles , history at dvntr.wordpress.com
2. ^ Jan Halle - International Appearances , rsssf.com
3. ↑ A photo of the team can be found on the website adofans.nl ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2008 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. 
4. ↑ Game data  ( 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. at the KNVB  
5. ↑ Game data ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2008 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. at voetbalstats.nl  
6. ^ Het Nederlands Elftal , in Ons Zeeland , year 1929, edition 9; Online version at brabantboek.nl  ( 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. , viewed June 10, 2008  
7. ↑ "[Halle] is naar mijn smaak de best midhalf van Nederland geweest en voor zijn club een kapitale kracht." Quoted from Leo Halle's biography in Wie is wie in Overijssel