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Kees Bekker

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Kees Bekker
Personal information
Full name Cornelis Bekker
Date of birth (1883-01-26)26 January 1883
Place of birth Breda, Netherlands
Date of death 28 December 1964(1964-12-28) (aged 81)
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1900–1911 HBS Craeyenhout
1911–1915 Be Quick 1887
International career
1906–1908 Netherlands 6 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Kees Bekker (26 January 1883 – 28 December 1964) was a Dutch international footballer who earned six caps for the national side between 1906 and 1908.

Club career

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Bekker scored 82 goals in 150 matches for HBS Craeyenhout, where we has made honorary member in 1914. He moved to Groningen to study medicine and play for Be Quick Groningen. He later became a surgeon.[1]

International career

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Bekker made his debut for the Netherlands in an April 1906 friendly match against Belgium and earned a total of caps, scoring no goals. His final international was an October 1908 friendly against Sweden.[2] He was also part of the Dutch squad for the football tournament at the 1908 Summer Olympics, but he did not play in any matches.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Club history Archived 2007-07-26 at the Wayback Machine - HBS Craeyenhout (in Dutch)
  2. ^ Intl career stats - Voetbalstats
  3. ^ "Kees Bekker". Olympedia. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
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