Ge Fortgens
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Full name | Gerardus Fortgens | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | July 10, 1887 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Haarlem, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | May 4, 1957 | (aged 69)||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Haarlem, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Defender, Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
1906–1914 | Ajax | 52 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
1914–1917 | UVV | ? | (?) | ||||||||||||||
1917–1922 | Haarlem | ? | (?) | ||||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||||
1911–1912 | Netherlands | 8 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Gerardus "Gé" Fortgens (July 10, 1887, in Haarlem – May 4, 1957, in Haarlem) was a Dutch amateur football (soccer) player. Fortgens was the first Ajax-player ever who was selected for the Netherlands national football team for the 1912 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ "Ge Fortgens". Olympedia. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
External links
[edit]Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gé Fortgens.
- Ge Fortgens at databaseOlympics.com (archived)
- Ge Fortgens at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Ge Fortgens – FIFA competition record (archived)
- Ge Fortgens at EU-Football.info
- Ge Fortgens at Olympedia
Categories:
- 1887 births
- 1957 deaths
- Dutch men's footballers
- AFC Ajax players
- HFC Haarlem players
- Footballers at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Olympic footballers for the Netherlands
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
- Footballers from Haarlem
- Olympic medalists in football
- Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Men's association football defenders
- Men's association football midfielders
- Netherlands men's international footballers