Leen Vente

Leendert Roelof Jan "Leen" Vente (14 May 1911 – 9 November 1989) was a Dutch footballer who played as a striker. He earned 21 caps and scored 19 goals for the Netherlands national football team, and played in the 1934 and 1938 World Cups.[1]

Leen Vente
Vente in 1935
Personal information
Full name Leendert Roelof Jan Vente
Date of birth (1911-05-14)14 May 1911
Place of birth Rotterdam, Netherlands
Date of death 9 November 1989(1989-11-09) (aged 78)
Place of death Rotterdam, Netherlands
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
Semper Melior
Pro Patria
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1928–1936 Neptunus
1936–1941 Feijenoord 82 (65)
1941–1948 Neptunus
International career
1933–1940 Netherlands 21 (19)
Managerial career
1950–1954 NOAD
1955–1956 EBOH
1956–1957 VOC
1957 Xerxes
1958–1959 Neptunus
1959–1960 Slikkerveer
MSV en AV Flakkee
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Playing career

Vente started in the Rotterdam Football Association for Semper Melior and later for Pro Patria.[2] He eventually joined Neptunus where he initially also participated in athletics.

In April 1936, Vente moved to Feijenoord.[3] He was one of the players that participated in the opening match of stadium De Kuip in 1937. Feyenoord played Beerschot and won 5–2. Vente scored the first ever goal in the stadium, and finished the game with a hat-trick.[4] Vente would finish his tenure with the club with 82 league appearances in which he scored 65 goals.[5]

In January 1941, Vente returned to Neptunus.[6]

After retirement

In 1943, Vente obtained his coaching licence. He started his managerial career in 1950 with NOAD.[7] He then coached both EBOH and VOC. He had a short term as manager of Xerxes in 1957.[8] After that he coached, among others, Neptunus and SV Slikkerveer.[9] Vente also worked as a representative during that period.

Vente owned café Leen Vente three times. He lost his second café during the German bombing of Rotterdam. After World War II, he was detained by the "Political Investigation Service" on charges of recruiting from his café, but was soon rehabilitated.[10] Vente turned out to have prevented collaboration with the Axis powers.

Personal life

Vente died on 9 November 1989 in Rotterdam.[11]

His brother's grandson, Dylan Vente, plays for Hibernian and started his career with Feyenoord.[12]

Honours

Feijenoord[13]

References
  1. 1934 FIFA World Cup Italy Archived 13 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "Leen Vente, 1956". Limburgsch Dagblad (in Dutch). 6 February 1956. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014.
  3. "Vente naar Feijenoord". Arnhemse Courant (in Dutch). 14 April 1936.
  4. "Feijenoord-stadion is geopend". De Volkskrant (in Dutch). 30 March 1937.
  5. Kilpatrick, James (18 December 2017). "Watch: Feyenoord's Dylan Vente scores identical goal to his great uncle's in 1937". fourfourtwo.com.
  6. "Vente weer naar Neptunus". Leidsch Dagblad (in Dutch). 10 January 1941.
  7. "Leen Vente trainer van Noad". Het Rotterdamsch Parool (in Dutch). 17 June 1950.
  8. "Sportkiekjes van Zamora... Vente". Het Vrije Volk (in Dutch). 21 October 1957.
  9. "Leen Vente trainer van „Neptunus"". Het Rotterdamsch Parool (in Dutch). 2 May 1958.
  10. "De voetballer Leen Vente gerehabiliteerd". Limburgsch Dagblad (in Dutch). 19 November 1945.
  11. "Voormalig topschutter van Oranje Leen Vente overleden". NRC Handelsblad (in Dutch). 9 November 1989.
  12. "Eerste profcontract voor spits Dylan Vente- Feyenoord.nl". feyenoord.nl (in Dutch). 11 November 2015.
  13. "Erelijst Feyenoord 1". feyenoord.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 30 January 2022.
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