Leo Hall

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Leo Halle in a game of the Altinternationalen, 1960

Leonard Gerrit Herman "Leo" Halle (born January 26, 1906 in Deventer ; † June 15, 1992 , ibid) was a Dutch football goalkeeper who won two Dutch championships with the Deventer Voetbalvereniging Go Ahead and played 15 times in the Dutch national team.

Club career

Leo, the younger brother of defender Jan Halle , was usually the goalkeeper on the football field as a child. The hobby team he played for during this time later joined the Dutch Football Association as ZEWION . At the age of 14, Halle signed up for Go Ahead, where he was already in the first team at 17 behind his older brother, the middle runner and team captain. It took a while before he had found a regular place in the gate; but from 1926 to 1939 he was the undisputed "number one" goal of Go Ahead. In 1930 and 1933, his performance was one of the guarantees for winning the Dutch championship. Early on in his career, Leo was nicknamed de leeuw van Deventer ("The Lion of Deventer"). He was “an impressive figure, about 1.84 meters tall and weighed more than 90 kilograms. He had a broad chest and big hands. "

National team

Leo Halle made his debut, together with striker Beb Bakhuys , in the Nederlands elftal on December 2, 1928 in the away game in Milan's San Siro Stadium against Italy . Twice Julio Libonatti and Adolfo Baloncieri with a penalty overcame the keeper; the Netherlands lost 2-3. But “friend and foe agreed that the defeat would have been higher if Halle hadn't done some splendid rescue work.” Gejus van der Meulen was a regular in the Oranje goal at the time , and there were other competitors, so that Halle six years had to wait for his next international appearance. Although he was now 28 years old, he was appointed to the Dutch squad for the World Cup in Italy alongside Adri van Male in 1934 , but shortly before the registration deadline, a functionary from his home club HFC Haarlem van der Meulen, who was meanwhile a doctor of medicine and was actually already resigning from the national team had announced that they would go to the World Cup. Van der Meulen was then also the one who stood between the posts in the only appearance in the final of the last sixteen with a 2: 3 against Switzerland . He then took off his gloves for good, and on November 4, 1934, Halle made his second international appearance at the rematch game in Bern as the goalkeeper of the 4-2 victorious Oranje- Elf. After "one of the best pre-war games" of the Dutch, he was now first choice in goal, and in early 1936 he made a name for himself as a " penalty specialist" after winning both a 5-3 win in Dublin against the team from the Irish Free State as was able to parry a penalty four weeks later in a 6-1 win in Paris against France . The draft in the cabin after the game made him develop pneumonia , which forced him to stay in hospital for six weeks; later he tried to overcome his fear of falling ill again with special underwear. With a game against les Bleus on October 31, 1937, after 15 missions - none of them together with his brother, who was only called up to the national team twice - and almost nine years his activity in the national team; Halle looked insecure in his last game and conceded a goal in the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam , so that the Netherlands lost 3-2 this time. The last goal against national goalkeeper Halle was scored by Roger Courtois .

Trainer

After his active career, which ended at Go Ahead in 1939 , Halle coached several Dutch amateur clubs. With Excelsior '31 from Rijssen , he won the amateur championship among Saturday amateurs in 1965. In addition, he played in the team of the Dutch old international, among other things until the 1960s in the traditional New Year's match against the KHFC Haarlem . Until his seventies he was still active as a goalkeeping coach in Colmschate at Deventer.

Away from football

Halle comes from a working class family; the father rolled cigars in a factory. Jan Halle went to primary school in Deventer and then to craft school. He trained as a fitter in a car workshop. In 1933 he married; The Halle couple had a son and three daughters, one of whom died early. As early as the 1930s, he was working full-time as a driver and fitter for the Ons Belang cooperative in Deventer. During the war years, “when food became scarce, soup was made from bones in the Twello meat factory . This soup was filled in milk cans and Leo Halle regularly took it with his van without the necessary papers through the German lines along the IJssel to Deventer, “where it was then distributed to the population. Until 1959 he worked in the cooperative; in the 1950s, to the delight of the youth in Deventer, he delivered school milk to schools. In 1959 he became an employee of the film archive of the Nederlandse Diepdruk Industrie ; he held this position until his retirement in 1971. He died in 1992 at the age of 86 after a serious illness; among other things he had suffered from Parkinson's in the last years of his life .

Honors

In 1986 a grandstand was named after Leo Halle in the Adelaarshorst ("Adlerhorst"), the stadium of the Go Ahead Eagles .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Abbreviation for Zwart en wit is onze naam , meaning "Black and white is our name". Halle's biography on Wie is wie in Overijssel , viewed on June 11, 2008
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Albert Simons, Halle, Leonard Gerrit Herman (1906–1992) , in Biografisch Wordenboek van Nederland , online version at the Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis , viewed on June 11, 2008
  3. ↑ Match dates at Voetbalstats.nl
  4. ↑ a b Wim Hesselink, Halle's biography from Overijsselse Biografieën , online version at Wie is wie in Overijssel , viewed on June 11, 2008

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personal data
SURNAME Halle, Leo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Halle, Leonard Gerrit Herman (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Deventer
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1992
Place of death Deventer