Joop will

Johan George "Joop" Wille (born September 16, 1920 in Haarlem , Netherlands ; † January 19, 2009 ) was a Dutch football goalkeeper who played for EDO Haarlem and Racing Heemstede as well as once for the Dutch national team.

Club career

Wille came to Haarlem FC EDO as a youth player, where he matured into one of the best goalkeepers of the 1940s and 1950s. In 1948 he moved to the racing club in the southern suburb of Heemstede , at that time one of the better addresses in Dutch football and just promoted to the top division. Here the English studies student got on very well with the English trainer Les Talbot . With the RCH he reached the decider for the Dutch championship in 1953 , which the Heemsteder in De Kuip won 2-1 after extra time against EVV Eindhoven . A year later, at the same time as professional football was introduced in the Netherlands, he ended his career.

National team

Wille is the player with the shortest total playing time in the Nederlands Elftal . After he had already sat in three games as a substitute goalkeeper on the bench, he was substituted on on April 21, 1940 in the game against Belgium in the 82nd minute for Adri van Male, who was injured in the knee . Just a minute later, he caught the Belgians' second goal in his team's 4-2 win. For the following international match against Luxembourg he was scheduled to be the first goalkeeper, but he did not get the chance for this further assignment, as the Wehrmacht of the German Empire marched in and occupied the Netherlands two days before the game . The Second World War prevented Willes and the entire national team from playing further games until 1946; thereafter, Piet Kraak was the first choice of the KNVB selection committee. With his nine-minute applications will was to 1966 and again since 1974, the player with the least use of minutes in Oranje (in between it was with Jan Jongbloed also a goalkeeper who, however, twelve years after his six-minute debut in 1962, among others in the 1974 World Cup to further missions came.)

After the active time

After his active career, Wille worked as an amateur as well as professional referee. At the end of the 1960s he had to give up this job due to a protracted knee injury, but worked in various functions such as chairman of the regulatory committee at the KNVB . Due to his great services to Dutch football, he was appointed Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau and in 1986 Bondsridder of the KNVB.

Web links

• Peter de Haan, Joop Wille: Tien minutes doelman van Oranje geweest
• Obituary at HFC Edo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary at the KNVB  ( 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.