Adriaan Mansveld (14 July 1944 – 5 December 1991) was a Dutch

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who played as a libero.

Career

Born in

The Hague The Hague ( ) is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands. With a population of over half a million, it is the third-largest city in the Netherlands. Situated on the west coast facing the North Sea, The Hague is the c ...

, Mansveld played club football for

FC Den Haag Alles Door Oefening Den Haag (), commonly known by the abbreviated name ADO Den Haag (), is a Dutch association football club from the city of The Hague. They play in the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of Dutch football, following relegation f ...

, Golden Gate Gales,

Feyenoord Feyenoord Rotterdam () is a Netherlands, Dutch professional association football, football club based in Rotterdam, which plays in the Eredivisie, the top tier in Dutch football league system, Dutch football. Founded as Wilhelmina in 1908, the ...

and

FC Utrecht Football Club Utrecht () is a Dutch professional association football, football club based in Utrecht. The club competes in the Eredivisie, the top tier of Dutch football league system, Dutch football, and plays its home matches at the Stadion ...

. A stand at Zuiderpark Stadion, ADO Den Haag's stadium, was named after Mansveld. At ADO Den Haag's new stadium, the Cars Jeans Stadium, a statue of Mansveld was also erected. He also earned 6 caps for the Netherlands national team between 1972 and 1973. He played in a number of qualifying matches for the

1974 FIFA World Cup The 1974 FIFA World Cup was the 10th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial Association football, football tournament for men's senior national teams, and was played in West Germany (and West Berlin) between 13 June and 7 July. The tournament marked the ...

, but was injured for the actual tournament. He died at the age of 47 from cancer.

References

1944 births 1991 deaths Footballers from The Hague Dutch men's footballers Netherlands men's international footballers ADO Den Haag players San Francisco Golden Gate Gales players Feyenoord players FC Utrecht players Eredivisie players United Soccer Association players Men's association football defenders Dutch expatriate men's footballers Dutch expatriate sportspeople in the United States Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States 20th-century Dutch sportsmen {{Netherlands-footy-defender-stub