Jan de Natris

Jan de Natris

Johannes Daniel "Jan" de Natris (born November 13, 1895 in Amsterdam , † September 16, 1972 ibid) was a Dutch football player . With his hometown club AFC Ajax he was twice Dutch champion ; with the national team he won the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Belgium in 1920.

Career

society

Jan de Natris, usually called Jen , was a working class child from Amsterdam; that the young man made a career in football was still unusual during his playing days; Most footballers at the time came from middle-class, often academically educated families. In his youth, de Natris played with Swift and Blauw Wit in Amsterdam. In 1914, when he was 18, he went to the AFC Ajax, the association founded by students from higher education institutions who “as the name suggested , had to know the Odyssey , which rarely happened in working class circles.” Even as a young man he fell as loudmouthed Complainers on; In his first time at Ajax, the winger played in the second team - but did not fail to complain to the board after a game that he was way too good for the second team and actually belong in the first. De Natris was both-footed and fast - he ran the 100 meters in 11.1 seconds - and mostly played right winger, but was also often used on the left. He was usually able to justify his claims with appropriate performances on the pitch. He was lazy to walk and liked to stand on the field and watch the game, but when he got into action, he was able to see a situation in a flash, capture the ball and take it to where he wanted it - be it in the right position for a perfectly fitting cross, be it three or four opponents dribbling around until the shot on goal.

After Ajax was promoted to the Eerste class in the 1916/17 season , the team was able to secure the first Dutch championship title in the following season. In the decisive game of the finals in Tilburg with Willem II , however, he was not used - he had missed the train and stayed in Amsterdam afterwards. The club grunted him a fine of ten cents , which the eccentric star never paid. The AFC Ajax were champions the following year, but again de Natris was not in the finals: he was suspended for six months for fighting on the field.

Nonetheless, he became one of the first "stars" of Dutch football, and in 1921 de Natris was one of the names that were discussed as a player for BVC Amsterdam. The Beroeps Voetbal Club , German "professional football club", should become the first "real professional club" in the Netherlands. But professional football was banned by the Dutch Football Association (NVB) , and clubs clandestinely threatened with exclusion who wanted to send a professional team to the start. Since the paid appearance on the football field had failed in this way, de Natris - a professional traveling salesman on a commission basis - was persuaded to switch to local rival De Spartaan in 1921 . Two years later he returned to Ajax before going to Vitesse in Arnhem for a few years in 1925 . Both changes probably brought him a good "underhand" transfer fee; There was never any evidence of this.

His work at AFC Ajax, to which he returned after his time in Arnhem, had a long echo: in the 50th anniversary book of the club in 1950, he was honored as “the best player who was ever active at Ajax”. And more than fifty more years later, Jan Luitzen wrote about de Natris that "it is still said of him today that he was more brilliant than Cruijff ."

National team

Jan de Natris made his national team debut in the fourth Dutch match after the World War on April 5, 1920. De Natris played on the right against Denmark , his Ajax teammate Joop van Dort half right, Boelie Kessler from HVV was in the lead as a center forward. Oranje won 2-0 with goals from de Natris and Kessler. He was also part of the team in the next two test matches for the 1920 Olympic Games : a draw in Genoa against Italy was followed by a 2-1 defeat in Basel against Switzerland , in which de Natris scored the Dutchman's goal.

At the Olympic football competition in Brussels and Antwerp , de Natris was initially part of the attacking team of the Dutch team, namely as left winger, as Oscar van Rappard had already been set for the right side . De Natris scored one of his most important and beautiful goals in the quarter-finals against Sweden . After Jaap Bulder , who had previously crowned his debut in the Oranje dress with a goal in the match against Luxembourg and again got his chance in the starting line-up, tied 4-4 with a penalty shortly before the end, it was in overtime de Natris, who made the Netherlands' semi-finals perfect: "Pick up steam on the sideline, swing in, sail around one to three little men and finish with the right in the short left corner", Jan Luitzen describes the winning goal.

What followed later became known as De Schande van de Schelde ("The Shame of the Schelde"). The crew had traveled to Antwerp on a ship made available by the Dutch government, the Hollandia . During the games, the players stayed on the ship anchored on the Scheldt , three of them in small, sparsely equipped cabins without electric lights or washing facilities - "a disgusting, gloomy chamber in which you don't even lock prisoners," he said Chronicler of De Sportkroniek - while the officials were allowed to spend the night in luxurious hotel rooms. After de Natris complained about the accommodations for the players, the association said they could appease them with a gramophone and a few records. De Natris and others, including his storm colleague Jaap Bulder, smeared the records with jam and used them to hop on the river. When, after losing the semi-final against the eventual Olympic champion (and at that time arch rivals) Belgium , several players in Antwerp's pubs got really drunk and de Natris, Bulder and the supplementary players Evert van Linge and Henk Tempel did not return to the Hollandia until late at night the association through and excluded these four from the rest of the tournament. Only when their teammates threatened to strike for the “small final” were the “sinners” at least allowed to go to the match, but were not used. Without them, the team lost the game for second place against Spain , but won the bronze medal for the third time due to the disqualification of the Czechs and Slovaks .

In November 1921, the team at Stade Pershing defeated the host French 5-0, de Natris was then carried off the shoulders as the “man of the game”. The next match on March 26, 1922 was again one of the neighborhood derbies in and against Belgium. In this game there was nothing to be seen of de Natris; he only shone with verbal attacks against his teammates, whom he blamed for the 4-0 defeat. The selection committee of the KNVB then allowed him a longer break. From March 1922 to March 1924, de Natris was not considered for the national team.

In time for the 1924 Olympic Games , de Natris was back in the squad and a regular in France. In the round of 16 he converted a penalty in a 6-0 win over Romania after Kees Pijl had already scored four goals, but did not score again in the further course of the tournament. After the lost semi-final - against Uruguay with the "black miracle" Andrade - Sweden was again opponent of the Dutch. In the game for third place, the selection committee relied on players who had not been used until then, including three debutants; de Natris was only a spectator in the 1-1 draw but came back to the team for the replay. But the more experienced footballers lost it with 1: 3, so that Oranje , after three bronze medals before, was only the “ungrateful” fourth place at his fourth Olympic football tournament.

After the Olympics, de Natris remained active in the national team for just over a year. His last international match was his only as a Vitesse player. On October 25, 1925, as on his debut five and a half years earlier, it was again against Denmark, this time with a 4-2 victory in Amsterdam. In total, de Natris went to 23 internationals, in which he scored five goals.

literature

• Jan Luitzen: Jan de Natris (1895–1972): De opstandige dwarserik , in: Mik Schots & Jan Luitzen, Tovenaars in Oranje . AW Bruna, Utrecht 2004, ISBN 90-229-8813-9 , p. 157ff.
• Oranje en de Olympische Spelen , in: Johan Derksen et al., Het Nederlands Elftal 1905–1989. De historie van Oranje , Weekbladpers BV / Voetbal International, Amsterdam 1989, ISBN 90-236-7211-9 . P. 30ff.

Web links

• De Natris' international match statistics at Voetbalstats.nl
• Marco Meeuwse: Jan de Natris , in: Ajax vanaf de oprichting dead 1930

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Oranje en de Olympische Spelen , in: Johan Derksen et al., Het Nederlands Elftal 1905–1989. De historie van Oranje , Weekbladpers BV / Voetbal International, Amsterdam 1989, p. 43
2. ↑ Jan was een assertieve Amsterdammer die Rechtstoe -rechtaan formuleerde, zeg maar rustig: een grote bek had. Jan Luitzen: Jan de Natris (1895–1972): De opstandige dwarserik , in: Mik Schots & Jan Luitzen, Tovenaars in Oranje . AW Bruna, Utrecht 2004, p. 157
3. ↑ The sum of Fl 0.10 in 1918 corresponds to the purchasing power of around € 0.60 in 2011; calculated with the purchasing power converter Waarde van de gulden / euro of the Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis
4. ↑ Jan Luitzen: Jan de Natris (1895-1972): De opstandige dwarserik , in: Mik Schots & Jan Luitzen, Tovenaars in Oranje . AW Bruna, Utrecht 2004, p. 158
5. ↑ Marco Meeuwse: Jan de Natris , in: Ajax vanaf de oprichting tot 1930 ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2013 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. 
6. ↑ Jan Luitzen: Jan de Natris (1895-1972): De opstandige dwarserik , in: Mik Schots & Jan Luitzen, Tovenaars in Oranje . AW Bruna, Utrecht 2004, p. 163
7. ↑ Jan Luitzen: Jan de Natris (1895-1972): De opstandige dwarserik , in: Mik Schots & Jan Luitzen, Tovenaars in Oranje . AW Bruna, Utrecht 2004, p. 162
8. ↑ Willem Vissers, Nigel de Jong is niet de enige , in: De Volkskrant of October 4, 2010, online version viewed on February 2, 2011; also: Oranje en de Olympische Spelen , in: Johan Derksen et al., Het Nederlands Elftal 1905–1989. De historie van Oranje , Weekbladpers BV / Voetbal International, Amsterdam 1989, p. 32
9. ↑ op.cit. in Jan Luitzen: Jan de Natris (1895–1972): De opstandige dwarserik , in: Mik Schots & Jan Luitzen, Tovenaars in Oranje . AW Bruna, Utrecht 2004, p. 161; also in Oranje en de Olympische Spelen , in: Johan Derksen et al., Het Nederlands Elftal 1905–1989. De historie van Oranje , Weekbladpers BV / Voetbal International, Amsterdam 1989, p. 33
10. ↑ Jan Luitzen: Jan de Natris (1895-1972): De opstandige dwarserik , in: Mik Schots & Jan Luitzen, Tovenaars in Oranje . AW Bruna, Utrecht 2004, p. 162