Wietze Couperus

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Wietze Couperus
Haarlem tegen Go Ahead 1-1, Couperus (jokes) (Haarlem), kop ,Stockdeelnr 922-7471.jpg
Wietze Couperus 1969
Personnel
birthday March 16, 1942
place of birth Sneek ,  Netherlands
position striker
Juniors
Years station
LSC 1890
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1962-1963 Blauw Wit Amsterdam 11 0(3)
1963-1964 vv Leeuwarden
1964-1965 ZFC Zaandam
1965-1970 HFC Haarlem at least 32 0(9)
1970-1972 ADO Den Haag / FC Den Haag 51 (25)
1972-1973 FC Amsterdam 30 0(6)
1973-1975 Telstar 44 (15)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1970 Netherlands 1 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Wietze Couperus (born March 16, 1942 in Sneek , Netherlands ; also Wytze Couperus ) is a Dutch former football player . The striker was active in the Eredivisie for ADO Den Haag and Telstar , among others . He was also used in an international match for the Dutch national team.

Club career

In his youth, Couperus played at LSC 1890 from his Frisian hometown of Sneek - the club where, looking back, it was “the most beautiful” for him. After moving to Amsterdam , he joined the local club Blauw Wit , where he made his debut in the honor division in the 1962/63 season. In the following season he briefly returned to Friesland for vv Leeuwarden , which was playing in what was then the third professional league, Tweede Divisie . After a year, the Leeuwarder awarded him to the ZFC from Zaandam . In 1965 he went to the third-rate HFC Haarlem , with whom he was champion of the Tweede Divisie in 1967 and two years later rose to second in the first division.

For the 1970/71 season he received a contract from ADO - the Hague swapped him at HFC for the Danish national player Niels-Christian Holmstrøm . Couperus played the club's most successful season in the Eredivisie with ADO. The team of coach Václav Ježek and goalkeeper Ton Thie , with the national players Aad Mansveld , Lex Schoenmaker and Piet de Zoete , the Norwegians "Dutte" Berg and Harry Hestad as well as the young Dick Advocaat stood unbeaten in first place for seventeen weeks. In the end it was only enough to finish third behind champions Feijenoord and Ajax , but thanks to the center forward's 15 goals, ADO qualified for the UEFA Cup .

In the 1971/72 season, the team - after the merger with Holland Sport now as FC Den Haag - reached fifth place in the league and the cup final , which, however, was lost 3-2 to AFC Ajax. In the UEFA Cup Couperus played three times and scored a first-round tie against Aris Bonnevoie a goal; in the second round, however, the FC was knocked out against the Wolverhampton Wanderers . Couperus went to the 1972/73 season to - from his former club Blauw Wit and DWS / A just founded as a merger club - FC Amsterdam , with whom he reached eleventh place at the end of the season. A year later he switched to Telstar from Velsen , where he still worked two seasons as a professional and finished the seasons as sixth and seventh in the Eredivisie. At the end of the 1974/75 season he ended his professional career.

Stations

as a professional footballer:

  • Blauw Wit Amsterdam (1962/63, Eredivisie, 11 appearances / 3 goals)
  • vv Leeuwarden (1963/64, Tweede Divisie)
  • ZFC Zaandam (1964/65)
  • HFC Haarlem (1965–1967 Tweede Divisie, 1967–1969 Eerste Divisie, 1969/70 Eredivisie 32/9)
  • ADO Den Haag / FC Den Haag (1970–1972, Eredivisie, 51/25; UEFA Cup 3/1)
  • FC Amsterdam (1972/73, Eredivisie, 30/6)
  • Telstar (1973-1975, Eredivisie, 44/15)

National team

In October 1970 Bondscoach František Fadrhonc nominated the ADO center forward for the European Championship qualifier against Yugoslavia ; Couperus came as a substitute for Coen Moulijn in the squad that had canceled his participation. On October 11, 1970, the game in Rotterdam's De Kuip began without him. After the 0-1 by Dragan Džajić , team captain Rinus Israël equalized with a penalty in the 49th minute . Fadrhonc came on for Wietze Veenstra from PSV Eindhoven in the 50th minute ; however, there was no further hit in the game. In the following European Championship qualifier against the GDR selection in the Dresden Rudolf Harbig Stadium , which was lost 1-0, Couperus sat again on the bench, but without being allowed to appear. The 40 minutes playing time against Yugoslavia was his only appearance in the Oranje shirt.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan van Capel: LSC 1890. In: de Volkskrant . December 18, 2000, accessed December 25, 2016 (Dutch, club portrait).
  2. ↑ Holmström geruild voor Couperus , Nieuwe Leidsche Courant of June 10, 1970, online copy viewed on December 25, 2016
  3. ↑ Club history. In: adodenhaag.nl. NV ADO Den Haag, accessed December 25, 2016 (Dutch).
  4. ↑ Couperus' European Cup statistics at Voetbalstats.nl
  5. ^ Wietse Couperus zestiende man , Nieuwe Leidsche Courant of October 9, 1970, online copy viewed on December 25, 2016.
  6. ↑ Game data ( memento from December 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on the KNVB website
personal data
SURNAME Couperus, Wietze
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Couperus, Wytze; Couperus, Wietse (alternative spellings)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Sneek