Piet Dumortier (9 November 1915 – 5 April 1945) was a Dutch footballer.[1] He played in one match for the Netherlands national football team in 1938.[2]
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 9 November 1915 | ||
| Place of birth | Utrecht, Netherlands | ||
| Date of death | 5 April 1945 (aged 29) | ||
| Place of death | Utrecht, Netherlands | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| International career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1938 | Netherlands | 1 | (0) |
He played for the Utrecht club VV DOS between 1930 and 1944.[3]
Personal life
editDumortier married at Utrecht City Hall in 1944 Everdina Abrahamse.[3]
Dumortier became proprietor of a cigar shop in Utrecht. He died during a bombing raid at the end of the Second World War, and shortly before his city was liberated from German occupation, when he was being hospitalised for diphtheria - during the raid the Germans allegedly turned off the electricity (by other accounts a power failure) which cut power to his iron lung. He is buried at the Tolsteeg Cemetery.[3]
References
edit- ^ "Piet Dumortier". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
- ^ "Piet Dumortier". National Football Teams. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
- ^ a b c "Donker - De ijzeren long stopt ermee; en dan is Rooie Piet dood". Nieuws030. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
External links
edit- Piet Dumortier at National-Football-Teams.com
- Piet Dumortier at EU-Football.info
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