Piet van der Kuil

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Piet van der Kuil (1952)

Pieter "Piet" van der Kuil (born February 10, 1933 in Velsen , Netherlands ) is a former Dutch football player who was Dutch champions with Ajax Amsterdam and made 40 appearances for the national team.

Career

society

Piet van der Kuil grew up in German-occupied IJmuiden during the Second World War , at a time of bombing and scarcity, when there was hardly any leisure activity for the young. A soccer ball was a luxury for the children of that time. Van der Kuil later recalled:

“I was completely crazy about football. So I often went to the slaughterhouse and got pig bladders. I then received an empty ball from the VSV groundskeeper ... you stuffed a pig's bladder into it, and then we could play football. "

The VSV, the Velseroorder SV from today's Velsener district Velserbroek, was the association in which his career began at the end of the Second World War. At the age of 14 he was appointed to the first team in Velsen and after just a few appearances he was allowed to play in the U-16 team of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbal Bond (KNVB) . The right winger played with the VSV in the early 1950s in the Eerste klasse , the top division of the Netherlands at the time, and became a national player here in 1952. As one of his role models, he lists Gé van Dijk , with whom he was later able to play at Ajax Amsterdam . Jack Reynolds , English coach at Ajax, asked him after a VSV game against Ajax if he would like to come to Amsterdam. It was 1955, when paid football was also making its way into the Netherlands. Ajax paid a transfer fee of 17,000 guilders and van der Kuil became one of the "pioneers" of the Eredivisie and the first international encounters between Ajax and Amsterdam.

At Ajax, the players were mostly semi-professionals in the first few years; van der Kuil initially worked part-time in the outerwear retail trade. In the team he played in his first season, still in the hoofd class , on the right winger. After Sjaak Swart had joined the first team in 1956 , he switched to the position of the right forward striker. Like later at PSV, Van der Kuil was the regular penalty taker . In the first season of the Eredivisie , Amsterdam became champions in 1956/57 , with the regulars Eddy Pieters Graafland in goal, Wim Anderiesen , Ger van Mourik , Gé van Dijk, Willy Schmidt and van der Kuil, both of whom scored eleven goals in the championship team and shared second place behind Wim Bleijenberg with 18 goals. Ajax was thus qualified for the first time for the European Cup, in which the Amsterdammers defeated SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt in Aue with 3-1 in their first game on November 20, 1957, the day of penance ; van der Kuil scored two goals. AFC Ajax also made its home premiere a week later with a 1-0 win. In the two seasons after the championship, van der Kuil was third and sixth with the Ajacieden . He played in Amsterdam until the end of the 1958/59 season.

Since the NV Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken van der Kuil offered an apprenticeship as a toolmaker, he switched to Philips Sport Vereniging (PSV) in Eindhoven before the 1959/60 season . He himself later said he could choose between Feijenoord and PSV:

"At Feijenoord I was able to take over a bakery shop, but at PSV I became a full professional."

In any case, he became a crowd favorite at PSV - and one of the most sought-after players who received offers from top clubs in Italy and Spain . PSV responded to his flirting with other clubs with a disciplinary penalty, but the Eindhoven-based company could not hold him for a long time. In the 1963/64 season, van der Kuil moved to Blauw-Wit Amsterdam , to then end his active career in 1966 after two seasons at SC Telstar , in which his home club VSV had now merged.

Stations

National team

As a 14-year-old, Piet van der Kuil wore the Oranje dress for the first time in the U-16 selection of the KNVB . He was in the U-18 selection only once, because the KNVB selection committee appointed him to the senior national team as early as 1950, but without initially using him. He made his debut less than two months after his 19th birthday, in the 2-4 defeat on April 6, 1952 in Antwerp against Belgium . He was part of the regular formation in the next games, including the 1952 Olympic Games in the 5-1 defeat against Brazil . He scored his first goal in Oranje that same year; in the friendly 2-2 draw on November 15, 1952 in Hull against England's amateur selection , he ensured the Dutchman's 2-1 lead just before the break. In March 1953 he stood next to Abe Lenstra and Mick Clavan in the team that played an official international match against Denmark in favor of the victims of the 1953 flood disaster . Until May 1954 he was ten times for the VSV in the national team before his international career suffered a kink. In his first years at Ajax, he did not play in the Oranje team.

It was not until April 28, 1957, after almost three years, that he made his eleventh appearance under bond coach George Hardwick , again against Belgium. From then on, however, he also completed 24 international matches in a row under association coach Elek Schwartz until October 1960, including the failed World Cup qualification and the second-highest win of the Dutch selection up to that point, a 9-1 win over Belgium. It was van der Kuil's first appearance in Oranje on October 4, 1959 after moving to PSV. In De Kuip , the Belgians were swept off the field by the Dutch with the Feijenoord axis Eddy Pieters Graafland , Jan Klaassens , Coen Moulijn and Kees Rijvers . Rijvers opened the scoring after two minutes, only one minute later Tonny van der Linden increased , after six minutes it was 3-0 through Faas Wilkes , who also scored the fourth goal. Van der Kuil made the break of 5-0. After the break, Wilkes and Klaassens scored once and van der Kuil twice before Michel Delire scored the consolation goal in the 87th minute .

The euphoria after this game was quickly slowed down because in the next match, just 17 days later, the Dutch lost 7-0 to the German national team in Cologne . In the “best German performance since the World Cup final in Bern”, the three-time goalscorer was Uwe Seeler . In the ups and downs of this year, a 7-1 win against Norway followed in Rotterdam , in which van der Kuil was again able to excel as a goalscorer. After failing to qualify for the 1962 World Cup again , he made two more international matches before his international career came to an end in October 1962 after 40 missions. He scored a total of nine goals for the Netherlands.

After the active time

In the 1970s Piet van der Kuil was the coach of the second team of the honorary division HFC Haarlem . In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he worked as an assistant coach at SC Telstar under the coaches Cees Glas and Niels Overweg , and was then a youth coach at the club. He has been running a football school in Velserbroek since 2001, which is now a foundation and where he is still the head coach in 2010. In addition, he also trained the E-youths of the RKVV Onze Gezellen in Haarlem .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Ik was helemaal gek van voetballen en dan went ik naar een slagerij waar ik varkensblazen haalde. Ik had me opgegeven bij VSV en van de terreinknecht kreeg ik dan een leren bal, maar daar zat geen binnenbal in. Daar stopped je dan zo'n varkensblaas in en dan kon je voetballen. " , Quoted from: Piet van der Kuil haalt herinneringen op uit de roemruchte jaren'50 van Ajax, interview with degoeieouwetijd.nl from September 1981, viewed on the website of the Piet van der Kuil Football School Foundation , on October 7, 2010
  2. ↑ The sum corresponds to a purchasing power of a little more than € 50,000 in 2008; calculated with the purchasing power converter Waarde van de gulden / euro of the Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis
  3. ↑ Illustration of the stadium booklet with a photo of the team
  4. ↑ Game data at the RSSSF
  5. ↑ a b Ajacieden in dienst van PSV en andersom - deel 4  ( 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. , PSV website of March 21, 2003, viewed October 7, 2010@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.psv.nl  
  6. ↑ "At Feyenoord kon ik een broodjeszaak begin, maar at PSV become ik full-prof.", Quoted from: Piet van der Kuil haalt herinneringen op uit de roemruchte jaren'50 van Ajax, interview with degoeieouwetijd.nl from September 1981, seen on the website of the Piet van der Kuil Football School Foundation , on October 7, 2010
  7. ↑ a b Team photos ( memento of the original from January 6th, 2011 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. on the telstarfans.nl website , viewed on October 13, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.telstarfans.nl
  8. ↑ Holger Joel, Ernst Christian Schütt: Chronik des deutschen Fußball , Chronik-Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 2008 4 , ISBN 978-3-577-16421-4 , p. 105; Online version at Google books
  9. ^ Johan Derksen, 'Rood-blauwe leeuwen, een uitstervend ras' ( Memento of December 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Voetbal International of November 30, 2009, viewed on October 13, 2010
  10. ↑ Jeugdspeler aan het woord: Lars Nieuwpoort ( Memento of the original dated December 6, 2010 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. , AZ website dated March 31, 2010, viewed October 13, 2010  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.az.nl
  11. ↑ Stichting Voetbalschool Piet van der Kuil , spotted 7 October 2010
  12. ↑ Oud international Piet van der Kuil trainer E-pupillen selectie  ( 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. , Website of RKVV Onze Gezellen, viewed on October 7, 2010@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.onzegezellen.com  
personal data
SURNAME Kuil, Piet van der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuil, Pieter van der (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Velsen