 Dirk Lotsij & Dutch team (1905) | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Dirk Nicolaas Lotsij | ||
| Date of birth | (1882-07-03)3 July 1882 | ||
| Place of birth | Dordrecht, Netherlands | ||
| Date of death | 27 March 1965(1965-03-27) (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 – 27 March 1965), 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.
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.
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. 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.
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.
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.
International
Netherlands
- Olympic Games Bronze medal: 1912
References
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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)
- Dirk Lotsy at National-Football-Teams.com
- Dirk Lotsy at kicker (in German)
- Dirk Lotsy at EU-Football.info
- Dirk Lotsy at Olympedia
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- 1882 births
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- Footballers at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Olympic footballers for the Netherlands
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
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