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Surinamese-Dutch footballer

Maarten Atmodikoro
Personal information
Full name Maarten Atmodikoro
Date of birth (1971-02-04) 4 February 1971 (age 53)
Place of birth Paramaribo, Suriname
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
DS'79
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1989–1991 SVV 13 (1)
1991–1993 SVV/Dordrecht'90 39 (1)
1983–1995 Dordrecht'90 66 (3)
1995–1999 NAC 115 (1)
1999–2000 → NEC (loan) 20 (0)
2001 ADO Den Haag 10 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Maarten Atmodikoro (born 4 February 1971 in Paramaribo, Suriname) is a retired Dutch football defender.

Club career

He started his professional career in the 1989/1990 season for Schiedamse Voetbal Vereniging. He later played for Dordrecht '90 (when SVV and FC Dordrecht merged in 1991), NAC Breda, NEC Nijmegen before finishing his career at ADO Den Haag. He retired in 2001.

Atmodikoro is one of the last to be detained for refusing to do military service. He was sentenced to seven months in prison in April 1996 for conscientious objection, opposed to violence as a matter of principle and did want to perform alternative military service. A few months later, in August, the last conscripts would be called up before conscription was officially abolished as of May 1997.

Atmodikoro was sentenced to 7 months in jail in 1998 for rejecting to fulfill his army service.

References

  1. Atmodikoro op huurbasis naar NEC - Voetbal International (in Dutch)
  2. ADO Den Haag versterkt zich met Atmodikoro - Voetbal International (in Dutch)
  3. "Atmodikoro krijgt zeven maanden cel voor zijn principes". Trouw. 17 April 1996. Archived from the original on 5 January 2022. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  4. 'Ik ben de gevangene van mijn achtergrond' - NRC (in Dutch)

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