Willy van Zwieteren

Willebrordus "Willy" van Zwieteren (born January 15, 1904 in Rotterdam , † November 22, 1983 in The Hague ) was a Dutch football player .

The defender from Sparta Rotterdam made his only international match for the Dutch national team on March 17, 1929 in a 3-2 victory in the friendly against Switzerland at the Amsterdam Olympic Stadium . It was a game that Bondscoach Bob Glendenning was experimenting with; four players from the starting line-up made their first match for Oranje , alongside van Zwieteren these were Jan Halle , Adje Gerritse and Jaap Barendregt ; in addition, another three players only came to their second and third international appearances. The chronicler of the magazine Ons Zeeland saw in the run-up to this “rejuvenation cure” a “bloodletting ... which with equal probability can either be justified or misplaced.” In retrospect, it was rather the second, because of these young players only Beb could later break away Bakhuys and Joop van Nellen prevail in the national team; everyone else stayed on less than four missions.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A photo of the team can be found on the website adofans.nl ( Memento from January 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Game data  ( 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. at the KNVB  
3. ↑ Game data ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at voetbalstats.nl  
4. ^ Het Nederlands Elftal , in Ons Zeeland , year 1929, edition 9; Online version at brabantboek.nl  ( 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. , viewed June 10, 2008