Nico Bouvy

Nicolaas January Jerome " Nico " Bouvy ( born July 11, 1892 in Banda Neira, Maluku, † 14 June 1957, The Hague, Zuid-Holland ) was a Dutch football player. At club level, the striker played for the Dordrechtsche Football Club from today's FC Dordrecht emerged. With the Netherlands, he won the bronze medal at the Olympic Games of 1912.

Making its debut in the Dutch national football team, he was defeated with this on March 16, 1912 in the stadium at the Alaby Road Kingston upon Hull in Yorkshire in front of 12,000 spectators with 0-4 against the hosts. It should be noted that the English competed in that era with its amateur team against teams from the continent. Coach of the so-called Elftal was at that time the Englishman Edgar Chadwick, as a player in 1891 Master of the Everton FC. In June and July Nico Bouvy participated with the national team at the Olympic Games in Stockholm. In the first game he scored in a 4-3 victory against the hosts in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium his first two international goals. In the next game he wore with another hit in a 3-1 win over Austria. In the semifinals, the Netherlands documents with 1:4 against Denmark, but then won the game for the bronze medal against Finland in Råsundastadion clear 9-0.

Towards the end of the year he came to an eighth in his play for the Oranje, a friendly against Germany, in front of 20,000 spectators in Leipzig to a 3-2 success. In 1913 he came to three other stakes, all in friendly meetings. First, in a 3-3 in Belgium. In April, he played in Zwolle his single international match on home soil. In the game against Belgium he was able to reduce a penalty to 1:2, but in the end won the score with 4-2. His last game for the Netherlands, he played where he started his national team career. In the stadium at the Anlaby Road, the captain and star striker of the hosts Vivian Woodward was able to secure a 2-1 victory for the English only nine minutes before the end of the game. In order nine games for the Netherlands, he scored four goals.