Huug de Groot
Personal information | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 7 May 1890 | |||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Rotterdam, Netherlands | |||||||||||||||
Date of death | 18 April 1957 | (aged 66)|||||||||||||||
Place of death | Scheveningen, Netherlands | |||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Forward | |||||||||||||||
Number | 8 | |||||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||||
–1909 | Sparta Rotterdam | |||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
1908–1917 | Sparta Rotterdam | |||||||||||||||
National team | ||||||||||||||||
1912–1914 | Netherlands | 10 | (6) | |||||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Henri Franciscus "Huug" de Groot (7 May 1890 – 18 April 1957) was a Dutch amateur football (soccer) player who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.[1]
He was part of the Dutch team, which won the bronze medal in the football tournament. In 1913 he scored both goals in the Netherlands' first ever victory over England.
From 1908 to 1917, he played for Sparta Rotterdam.
References[]
- ^ "Huug de Groot". Olympedia. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
External links[]
- Huug de Groot at databaseOlympics.com (archived)
- Huug de Groot at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
Categories:
- 1890 births
- 1957 deaths
- Dutch footballers
- Footballers at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Olympic footballers of the Netherlands
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
- Footballers from Rotterdam
- Olympic medalists in football
- Sparta Rotterdam players
- Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Association football forwards
- Netherlands international footballers
- Dutch Olympic medalist stubs
- Dutch football biography stubs