Dirk Lotsij
 Dirk Lotsij & Dutch team (1905) | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Dirk Nicolaas Lotsij | ||
| Date of birth | 3 July 1882 | ||
| Place of birth | Dordrecht, Netherlands | ||
| Date of death | 27 March 1965 (aged 82) | ||
| Place of death | The Hague, Netherlands | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1901-1914 | FC Dordrecht | ||
| International career | |||
| 1902 | Netherlands ("Van Hasselt XI") | 1 | (1) |
| 1905–1914 | Netherlands | 10 | (1) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Men's football | ||
Representing  Netherlands
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| Olympic Games | ||
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1912 Stockholm | Team competition |
Dirk Nicolaas Lotsij, sometimes spelled as Dirk Lotsy (3 July 1882 in Dordrecht – 27 March 1965 in The Hague), was a Dutch amateur footballer who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was included in the Netherlands national football team, which won the bronze medal.[1]
Biography
In 1902 he was part of one of the infamous "Van Hasselt XI" sides that faced the Belgium national team in a series of unofficial meetings between the two sides in the early 1900s, netting his side's consolation goal in a 1–2 loss on 15 December 1902.[2]
On 30 April 1905, Lotsij went down in history as one of the eleven footballers who played in the first-ever game of the Netherlands national team at the Coupe Vanden Abeele, helping his side to a 4–1 victory over Belgium in Antwerp.[3] Lotsij then had to wait four years before earning another cap for the Dutch, which was again in a 4–1 win against Belgium on 25 April 1909.[4]
Without playing in any other game, he was called up to the Dutch Olympic squad in 1912, starting in all four matches as a midfielder (three of which as the team captain), including the bronze medal match against Finland in which he helped his team with a 9–0 win to not only secure a second bronze medal in a row, but also was a record-breaking victory for the Netherlands at the time.[1][4]
It took him two more years for Lotsij to score his first and last international goal in a friendly against Germany on 5 April 1914 to help his side salvage a 4–4 draw. He played his last match for the team six weeks later, on 17 May 1914, in a friendly against Denmark.[4]
International
Netherlands
- Olympic Games Bronze medal: 1912
References
- ^ a b "Dirk Lotsij". Olympedia. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
- ^ "Coupe Vanden Abeele". RSSSF. 9 June 2022. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
- ^ "Belgium vs Netherlands, 30 April 1905". eu-football.info. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
- ^ a b c "Dirk Lotsij". eu-football.info. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
External links
- Dirk Lotsij at databaseOlympics.com (archived)
- Dirk Lotsij at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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