Dirk Lotsy

Dirk Nicolaas Lotsy ( born July 3, 1882 in Dordrecht, † March 27, 1965 in The Hague; actually Dirk Nicolaas Lotsij ) was a Dutch football player. He played ten matches for the Dutch national football team, scoring one goal.

Career

Lotsy played for the DTC from his home town of Dordrecht. On April 30, 1905, he was one of the eleven players who contested the first international match of the Dutch national team and it won 4:1 against Belgium in Antwerp. After the midfielder but had to wait four years before he in Rotterdam - again with a 4-1 win over Belgium - next time was used. Without another game to be completed, he was appointed in 1912 in the Olympic team of the Dutch. He and his team came with a 3-1 win over Austria semi-finals, the "Holland" against Denmark - this time with the strongest team on the European mainland - lost with 1:4. Subsequently, the team defeated in the third place play- Finland 9-0, which on the one hand was a still not übertroffener record win of the Netherlands and the other meant that they repeated their bronze medal win of 1908. In this and in the two previous games Lotsy was team captain.

His next assignment after the Olympics was in Leipzig on November 17, 1912. Against the host German team, it was the fourth game overall, and the third, won the Dutch ( had the third meeting of the two teams ended in a draw 5:5 ). After a break of one and a half years, or five internationals, he stood at the April 5, 1914 again as a team leader and again against Germany in the square; the 4-4 draw in Amsterdam, he scored his only goal ( 3:3 intermediate state ) in National Dress. Six weeks later he had against Denmark his last mission for his country; the World War prevented for the next five years more matches of the national team.

After his playing time Lotsy made ​​a name for decades as a football columnist. In 1930 he published his book Oude voetbalgedachten ( " Old soccer thoughts ").

Lotsy was a great-uncle of the later KNVB chairman Karel Lotsy.