Robert De Veen

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Robert De Veen
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Personnel
Surname Robert Louis De Veen
birthday March 25, 1886
place of birth Bruges ,  Belgium
date of death December 8, 1939
size 192 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
FC Brugeois
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1902-1914 FC Brugeois 172 (135)
1924-1925 RRC tournaments
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1906-1913 Belgium 23 0(26)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1924-1925 RC Tournaisien (player-coach)
US Tournaisienne
1932-1934 Olympique Lillois
1934-1936 Racing Lens
1936-1937 FC Nancy
1937 Racing Lens
1938-1939 FC Brugeois
1939 VG Ostend
1 Only league games are given.

Robert Louis De Veen (born March 25, 1886 in Bruges , † December 8, 1939 ) was a Belgian football player on the position of a striker . After his active career, he worked as a football coach in Belgium and France before he died in 1939 at the age of 53 after a serious illness.

life and career

Club career

Robert De Veen was born in Bruges in 1886, where he began his football career with his home club, FC Brugeois , now known as Club Bruges. 1902/03 the striker completed his first official games for the club from West Flanders , where he came to a goal in four games, but with the team in the league, which was divided into two seasons, only occupied the last place of the respective season. In the following season, FC Brugeois was already more successful and qualified second in the group for the decisive final round, in which the team finally took third place. De Veen was not used this season and was only back in 1904/05 after the league reform and the hosting of the first all-Belgian league in the squad of FC Brugeois. At the third oldest club in the country, he was then used in almost all of his team's games and made it to third place in the table in 18 league appearances and five goals scored with the team. 1905/06 showed the striker for the first time of his efficiency in front of the opposing goal, where he brought it to 13 goals in 14 championship games and with the team in second place in the final table.

This year, after 1905, he was again Belgian top scorer, and according to the official website of his home club he is said to have scored 26 goals. Due to his offensive performances, he was also brought to the Belgian national football team for the first time , for which he made his debut at the age of 20 years and 26 days. In the 1906/07 season, the striker was back in third place in the table and had a record of 16 league games, in which he scored nine goals. The following 1907/08 season was similar for De Veen and his team, in which they again did not get beyond third place and De Veen contributed seven goals in 14 games. His hit rate finally increased with the 1908/09 season, when he managed to hit 21 in 19 championship appearances, but once again failed to make it to third place in the table. This finally changed in 1909/10, when he and the team behind the previous record champions Royale Union Saint-Gilloise took second place and, due to the same number of points after the main round, narrowly defeated the Union with 0: 1 in a final game played specifically for them had to and it was only enough for the runner-up title. In 18 appearances, De Veen scored 21 goals for FC Brugeois.

As in the previous season, FC Brugeois was also allowed to call itself runner-up in the highest Belgian football league in 1910/11, with the team only one point behind the champions and city rivals CS Brugeois . De Veen was used in all games of his team except for one game and brought it to a number of goals of 17 in 21 missions. 1911/12, the striker was still active as a regular in the attack line, in which it brought on 16 hits in 20 games. With the blue-blacks, however, he could no longer connect to the performances of the previous seasons and ended the season in fourth place in the table behind Daring Club de Bruxelles (1st), Royale Union Saint-Gilloise (2nd) and Royal Racing Club de Bruxelles (3.). Although De Veen was personally very successful as a goalscorer in the 1912/13 season and scored 17 goals in 19 championship games, his team was able to keep up with this success and only ended up in seventh place in the final standings. 1913/14 was a little more successful for the team. In a fourth place Robert De Veen was used in nine league games in which he came eight times to scoring. With the outbreak of the First World War , De Veen ended his career as an active football player at the age of 28. In all the years with FC Brugeois he formed a successful attacking trio with high scoring goals with Hector Goetinck and Charles Cambier .

National team career

De Veen was called up for the first time in the Belgian national football team during the 1905/06 season, in which his efficiency was first really noticeable in front of the opposing team . In the 5-0 victory over France on April 22, 1906 in Paris , the striker played his first international match for his home country and was able to be registered as a goalscorer twice. A week later he was in action again in the 5-0 win over the Netherlands in Antwerp and scored three goals. During his seven years and nine days of membership in the Belgian national team, which ended in a 1-0 defeat against Italy in Turin on May 1, 1913 , he and the national team mostly met opponents from neighboring countries France (7 games) and the Netherlands (9 games). He competed four times with the team against amateur selections from England and played one game each against Germany , Switzerland and Italy. With 13 goals, half of his total for Belgium, he scored the most goals against the French. With his second international match, when he had already scored five goals, he surpassed the previous record goal scorer of the Belgian national team, Pierre Destrebecq . Then De Veen was over 32 years with a total of 26 goals scored for the Belgian national team, before he was surpassed on May 8, 1938 by Bernard Voorhoof , who scored a total of 30 goals in 61 international matches by the end of his career.

Coaching career

The De Veen team of Olympique Lillois , champions of the first French professional league. (1933)

In the years after the First World War, nothing is known about De Veen's life or career. In the 1924/25 season he was finally player-coach of RC Tournaisien and was used in some of the league games of the third division club during this season; shortly afterwards he also trained the city rival US Tournaisienne . A few years later he went to France and was hired there in 1932 as coach of Olympique Lillois , with whom he played the first edition of the professional French football league . In the 1932/33 season , the Belgian was so with the team winner of Group A in the football league, which was divided into two seasons. Since the actual winner of Group B, Olympique Antibes , was excluded from the championship-winning final due to a postponement towards the end of the season by the Fédération Française de Football Association , FFFA for short , Olympique Lillois had to play the game against the actual runner-up AS Cannes . The game on May 14, 1933 in front of around 12,000 spectators at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir was narrowly won 4-3 by the Lille club . Also in the 1933/34 season , the Belgian was a member of the coaching staff of the founding member of the first French professional football league, but as defending champion he was unable to continue the successes of the previous season. With the team he ranked fourth at the end of the season and had with the Hungarian André Simonyi only one player among the ten top scorers; a year earlier, none of his supervised players had managed to do this.

In 1934 he then joined the French second division team Racing Lens , a new league player who had only received his professional license that year. With the team he came to the passable fifth place in the table by the end of the season and was with the team by far the best newcomer in the league. In addition, two of his players made it into the top ten goalscorers, including Edmond Novicki with 23 goals in 3rd place and another player with 20 goals in 4th place. He was also in the following season at the club from Lens in the Pas-de-Calais department Active as a trainer in 1935/36 and was able to achieve fourth place in the final ranking with the team. With the Austrian Viktor Spechtl he had a player in the squad who made it to third place on the league-wide scorers list with 26 goals, but not the two better-placed players in front of him ( Jean Nicolas from FC Rouen with 45 goals and George Nicolls from Racing Roubaix with 40 hits). At the beginning of the 1936/37 season he joined within the league of FC Nancy , which only got a license in the previous season. He trained this for a large part of the season, with the team still being able to keep up with the other field of participants until December 1936, but then deteriorated again and almost ended up bottom of the table. The 15th place, which the team reached in the final ranking before Stade Reims (15th) and Racing Calais (16th), could no longer pursue Robert De Veen as a coach. Even before that, the Belgian moved back to his previous club Racing Lens in the spring of 1937, with whom he came first in the French second division after 32 games that resulted in 23 wins, four draws and five defeats. In addition to the rise to the top class, Racing Lens also provided the current top scorer in Viktor Spechtl and had two other players and the top 10 with Stefan Dembicki (5th place with 22 goals) and Edmond Novicki (8th place with 16 goals) Last season's goalscorers. Until December 1937, the Belgian was the coach of Racing Lens and was then considered to be without a club.

At the beginning of the 1938/39 season, the board of directors of FC Brugeois proposed to sign De Veen as the new head coach of his team. The former Belgian top scorer finally accepted this offer and trained the team for a large part of the season, but could not avert a last place in the table and a resulting relegation to the second division. In 1939, he briefly joined the VG Oostende football club as a coach , but soon had to quit this job due to a serious illness and died that same year at the age of 53. The relegation of his FC Brugeois was not valid in the following season 1939/40, as this was canceled prematurely after nine rounds played due to the outbreak of World War II and a new season was only played again in 1941/42.

successes

FC Brugeois
  • Belgian runner-up: 1905/06, 1909/10 and 1910/11
Olympique Lillois
Individual successes
  • Belgian top scorer: 1904/05 and 1905/06
  • Top scorer in the Belgian national team from April 29, 1906 to May 8, 1938

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Club Brugge Belgian League Top Scorers (English), accessed on August 21, 2014
personal data
SURNAME De Veen, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De Veen, Robert Louis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian football player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruges , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1939