Prior to the 1938 World Cup, the team of the Dutch East Indies made a similar trip; six years before, a Curaçao selection had been the first visitors from the West Indies to tour the Netherlands, two years before Surinam.
Match Overview
Date Venue Hosts Score
18- 6-52 Amsterdam Blauw Wit 3-1 Dutch Antilles [HT: 2-0]
21- 6-52 Den Bosch B.V.V. 5-1 Dutch Antilles [HT: 3-0]
25- 6-52 Rotterdam Feijenoord 0-1 Dutch Antilles [HT: 0-0]
29- 6-52 Boulogne-sur-mer France Am. 6-1 Dutch Antilles [HT: 3-1]
3- 7-52 Amsterdam K.N.V.B. XI 3-3 Dutch Antilles [HT: 3-2]
9- 7-52 Enschede sc Enschede 1-0 Dutch Antilles [HT: 0-0]
12- 7-52 Nijmegen N.E.C. 3-4 Dutch Antilles [HT: 2-3]
Additional Match Details Test Matches
Jun 18, 1952, Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam
Blauw Wit 3-1 Dutch Antilles
[Tolmeyer 18, De Vries 40, Corbran 50; Briezen 80; HT 2-0; att: 6000]
Jun 21, 1952; De Vliert, 's-Hertogenbosch
B.V.V. 5-1 Dutch Antilles
[Krijgh 30, 37, Remmers 2-0, Van Beurden 66, Heymans 70; Heyliger 75; HT 3-0;
att: 20000]
NB: B.V.V. had visited Curaçao at the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Jong Holland
in 1949, drawing 1-1 with Curaçao.
Dutch Antilles:
Hernandez;
De Lannoy, Kemp;
Giribaldi, Vlinder, Adoptie;
Brokke, Gomez (HT Krips), Conquet (HT Brion), Coffie (HT Briezen), Heyliger
Jun 25, 1952, De Kuip, Rotterdam
Feijenoord 0-1 Dutch Antilles
[Krips 45; HT 0-0; played in 2 halves of 40 minutes each]
[referee: Bertus Aussum; att: 20000]
Feijenoord (announced day before match):
Van der Bijl;
Kerkum, Bol;
V.d. Engel, Blankemeyer, V.d. Korput;
Hol, V.d. Heide, Den Bleyker, Mijnsbergen, V.d. Velde
Dutch Antilles (line-up at start second half):
Dré Saris;
Kemp, Canword;
Giribaldi, Vlinder, Adoptie;
Brokke, Krips, Helder, Briezen (Coffie 62), Heyliger
NB: Dré Saris (B.V.V.) played as goalkeeper for the Dutch Antilles, instead of
Hato (injured vs Blauw Wit) or Hernandez (injured vs B.V.V.); Saris played
one official match for the Netherlands on June 16, 1949 (4-1 away to Finland).
Feijenoord had visited Curaçao in 1946 at the occasion of the silver jubilee
of the C.V.B., losing 0-4 to their hosts.
Jun 29, 1952; "Gemeentelijk Sportpark" (Parc des sports municipal), Boulogne-sur-mer
France Am. 6-1 Dutch Antilles
[Olivière 10, Le Fèvre 31, ~50, ~65, ~85, N.N. (centre forward) 41;
Krips 13; HT 3-1]
Jul 3, 1952; Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam
K.N.V.B. XI 3-3 Dutch Antilles
[Van der Gijp 32, 44, Clavan 37; Brokke 27, 35, Heyliger 46; HT 3-2]
[referee: Schipper (Groningen); att: 12000]
K.N.V.B. XI (Bondselftal):
Landman (Sparta);
Boskamp (Ajax), De Jong (A.D.O.);
Van der Hurk (Eindhoven), Hendriks (Vitesse), Van Schijndel (S.V.V.);
Louer (N.O.A.D.), Clavan (A.D.O.), C. van der Gijp (Emma),
Van der Tuyn (Hermes D.V.S.), Van Melis (Eindhoven)
Dutch Antilles:
Hernandez (46 Hato);
Canword, Matrona (50 Helder);
Giribaldi, Vlinder, De Lannoy;
Brokke, Krips, Briezen, Kemp, Heyliger
NB: Helder was announced for the starting line-up but only entered the field early
in the second half, having arrived by plane only hours before the match.
Jul 9, 1952; Phenix-terrein, Enschede
sc Enschede 1-0 Dutch Antilles
[Van Weylick ~85; HT 0-0]
Jul 12, 1952; De Goffert, Nijmegen
N.E.C. 3-4 Dutch Antilles
[Oerlemans 16, Roos 26, Hendriks 53; Krips 15, Briezen 25, Brokke 44,
Heyliger 55; HT 2-3]
[referee: Van Laar; att: 6000]
Dutch Antilles:
Hato;
Canword, Matrona (~60 Adoptie);
Giribaldi, Vlinder, De Lannoy;
Brokke, Krips, Briezen (~60 Conquet), Kemp, Heyliger
Olympic Squad Dutch Antilles
from Curaçao (14):
Ludgero Adoptie (Jong Holland)
Wilhelm Canword (S.U.B.T.)
Pedro Don Coffie (Sithoc)
Petrus "Piet" Conquet (Jong Curaçao)
Guillermo "Gein" Giribaldi (Sithoc)
Fransisco Gomez (S.U.B.T.)
Ergilio Hato (Jong Holland)
Willys Heyliger (S.U.B.T.)
Wilfred "Fèfè" de Lannoy (Jong Holland)
Pedro Matrona (P.S.V.)
Jozef "Jeffi" Merced (S.U.B.T.)
Edmundo "Eddie" Vlinder (S.U.B.T.)
Corri de Geus (Sithoc) [*]
Guillermo "Shon Mi" Krips (Sithoc) [*]
from Aruba (7):
Juan Briezen (Aruba Juniors)
Jorge "Gochi" Brion (Aruba Juniors)
Adriaan "Jani" Brokke (R.C.A.)
Ricardo "Carlos" Helder (R.C.A.)
Lucas "Dunchi" Hernandez (Aruba Juniors)
Raimundo Kemp (Aruba Juniors)
Leo "Olimpic" Rodriguez (Aruba Juniors)
trainer: Antoine Maduro
[*] the original squad included 12 players from Curaçao (the first twelve of the
above list) and 7 from Aruba, who were all selected at the beginning of May;
an additional Curaçao player ("The 13th Man") was to be designated later; at
the end of May, De Geus was chosen as that player; on June 12, it was decided
to add another player from Curaçao, and Krips was chosen as "14th Man".
Olympic Match
Jul 21, 1952; Lahden kisapuisto, Lahti
Turkey 2-1 Dutch Antilles
[Tokaç 9, Bilge 79pen; Briezen 82]
[NB: Çetinel (Turkey) missed pen 13; Hato (Dutch Antilles) missed pen 25]
[referee: Jørgensen (Denmark); attendance: 3700]
Turkey (Amateur):
Erdoğan Akın;
Necdet Şentürk, Rıdvan Bolatlı;
Mustafa Ertan, Basri Dirimlili, Ercüment Güder;
Vasıf Çetinel, Tekin Bilge, Yalçın Çaka, Muzaffer Tokaç, Macit Gürdal
Dutch Antilles:
Ergilio Hato;
Wilfred de Lannoy, Wilhelm Canword;
Pedro Matrona, Edmundo Vlinder (cap), Guillermo Giribaldi;
Willys Heyliger, Juan Briezen, Jorge Brion, Guillermo Krips, Adriaan Brokke
Sources included: Amigoe di Curaçao, Arubaanse Courant, various Dutch newspapers
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