Dick van den Polder

Dick van den Polder (23 September 1934 – 21 October 2013) was a Dutch footballer and journalist.

Dick van den Polder
Personal information
Date of birth (1934-09-23)23 September 1934
Place of birth Rotterdam, Netherlands
Date of death 21 October 2013(2013-10-21) (aged 79)
Playing position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Excelsior
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

Football career

Van den Polder played for Excelsior between 1954 and 1964.[1] He was one of the club's first professionals, and made a total of 199 appearances for them.[2]

Journalism career

Van den Polder retired from football at the age of 29 to become a journalist, and wrote for a number of papers including Rotterdamse Parool, Vrije Volk, Rotterdams Dagblad and Radio Rijnmond.[3]

gollark: MANY things are beeoids, but this is not very useful.
gollark: What if I define a new abstract algebraic entity called a "beeoid"? A "beeoid" is a mapping from anything ever to anything ever.
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gollark: Perhaps they want stuff which has interesting useful properties. Apparently magmae have basically no requirements.
gollark: If something is very slow to derive I may memorise it also.

References

  1. "Profile". Footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
  2. "Oud voetballer Dick van den Polder overleden" (in Dutch). S.B.V. Excelsior. 24 October 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
  3. "Oud-journalist Dick van den Polder overleden" (in Dutch). Feyenoord. 21 October 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2013.


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