Bok de Korver

Bok de Korver

Footballer

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Career & Clubs

Career

De Korver played for Sparta Rotterdam between 1902 and 1923. He won the Dutch national title five times. De Korver scored his most notable goal in 1912, in a match against AFC Ajax. His goal won Sparta the national title. De Korver played 31 caps for the Netherlands between 1905 and 1913, scoring two goals. He won two Olympic bronze medals in 1908 and 1912. De Korver captained the latter team. He was also a player of the Dutch national team that beat England for the first time ever, in 1913. Bok de Korver was a civil servant for the municipality of Rotterdam. He ended his career at age 40 after pneumonia. De Korver died on 22 October 1957, aged 74. He was buried in Haren (Groningen). De Korver was an honorary member of Sparta and of the Royal Dutch Football Association. The football club BDK from Amsterdam was named after De Korver. The west stand of Sparta's stadium, Het Kasteel, was renamed Bok de Korver Stand on 1 April 2007.

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International

International goals

Scores and results table. Netherlands's goal tally first:

Club
Sparta Rotterdam (1902–1922)
Club
Netherlands national association football team (1905–1913)
National team
Netherlands

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Identifiers & aliases
Description

Dutch footballer (1883-1957)

ISNI

0000000389779649

Position

midfielder, defender

Extract from Wikipedia

Johannes Marius ("Bok") de Korver was a football player from the Netherlands, who twice won a bronze medal with the Netherlands national football team at the Summer Olympics: in 1908 (London) and in 1912 (Stockholm).

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