Dick van den Polder
Dick van den Polder (23 September 1934 – 21 October 2013) was a Dutch footballer and journalist.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 23 September 1934 | ||
| Place of birth | Rotterdam, Netherlands | ||
| Date of death | 21 October 2013 (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.
gollark: ↓ you
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
- "Profile". Footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
- "Oud voetballer Dick van den Polder overleden" (in Dutch). S.B.V. Excelsior. 24 October 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
- "Oud-journalist Dick van den Polder overleden" (in Dutch). Feyenoord. 21 October 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.