Cor Kools
Cornelis Wilhelmus "Cor" Kools (born July 20, 1907 in Teteringen , † September 24, 1985 in Breda ) was a Dutch football player who was active at NAC Breda and played 16 times in the Dutch national team. In 1928 he was part of the Dutch Olympic team .
Club career
Kools was born in what is now the Breda district of Teteringen and joined the youth of the NAC at the age of twelve. At the age of 18, on March 7, 1926 in a match against MVV , he made his debut in the first team. Kools was an all-round player, applicable in all positions, but mostly acted in the midfield. Alongside striker Antoon "Rat" Verlegh , who was eleven years older than him , he was one of the guarantors of the NAC's success in the late 1920s and early 1930s, when the team consistently ranked among the top four of the Eerste klasse zuid , the top division at the time. Once the NAC reached the final round of the championship during this time and was runner-up behind Heracles Almelo in 1927 ; In 1930 the team made it to the semi-finals for the KNVB Cup , but then had to admit defeat to Excelsior Rotterdam . The following year, Kools suffered a serious knee injury in the championship game against NOAD Tilburg , which forced him to undergo meniscus surgery on July 20, 1931, his 24th birthday. Nevertheless, he remained active for his homeland club until 1941. In total, he made more than 230 first division games, in which the penalty specialist scored at least 88 goals. He was on the pitch 16 times (2 goals) in the championship finals and 21 times (10 goals) in the KNVB Cup.
National team
After Rat Verlegh had been part of the Nederlands Elftal tribe since October 1926, after two individual missions in 1920 and 1923, and his club colleague Piet van Boxtel had also played in the national team several times since November 1927, Kools was also part of the Oranje squad in March 1928 called. It celebrated its first appearance on April 22nd, 1928 in the "old stadium" in Amsterdam - the Olympic stadium built next to it was only put into operation on July 28th with the opening of the Olympic Games - in a friendly against Denmark , which the German referee Peco Bauwens directed. In the 2-0 victory, Kools, used as a half-forward, scored the second goal. He was appointed to the Olympic squad for the games in his own country, but after the elimination against Uruguay he only played in the consolation round against Belgium and Chile . Until November 2, 1930 he was in almost all games of the Dutch on the field. He scored two more goals for his team (a "double" in Norway ) and an own goal in Sweden . The knee injury and the following operation prevented further missions in the national jersey.
After the active time
Shortly after his last game for the NAC, the club made him an honorary member on July 26, 1941. He remained loyal to NAC Breda afterwards and was active in various positions as a functionary on the association's board until 1974.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The statistics on the De Rat website are , according to their own information, incomplete because there are no data for the 1940/41 war season in particular
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kools, Cor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kools, Cornelis Wilhelmus (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Teteringen |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 24, 1985 |
| Place of death | Breda |