Dirk Lotsij

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]

Dirk Lotsij
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
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 1912 Stockholm Team competition

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 Dutch 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

References
  1. "Dirk Lotsij". Olympedia. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
  2. "Coupe Vanden Abeele". RSSSF. 9 June 2022. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  3. "Belgium vs Netherlands, 30 April 1905". eu-football.info. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  4. "Dirk Lotsij". eu-football.info. Retrieved 2 August 2022.


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