Groningen
Groningen (; gos, Grunn or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands. The ''capital of the north'', Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of the northern part of t ...
– 30 April 1979 in
Leiderdorp
Leiderdorp () is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland near the city of Leiden. It had a population of in .
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) was a
football (soccer)
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player from the
Netherlands
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, who represented his home country at the
1920 Summer Olympics
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in
Antwerp, Belgium
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. There he won the bronze medal with the
Netherlands national football team
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Club career
Bulder played for hometown club
Be Quick
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, making his debut on 23 October 1910 against WVV. He won the Dutch league title with Be Quick in 1920. He played his final game on 9 April 1928 against Frisia. Until the appearance of
Abe Lenstra
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, Bulder was considered the best footballer to appear on the northern fields. He was a dribbler, a king scorer, a technician who practiced with the tennis ball with brother Evert Bulder in their early years. At the age of fourteen, Jaap Bulder already made it through to the first of the great
Be Quick
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Linguistics
* ''To be'', the English copular verb
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. He won eleven northern division titles with
Be Quick
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Linguistics
* ''To be'', the English copular verb
* Be (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet
* ''be'' (interjection), in several languages
* Be language or Ong Be, a language of northern Hainan province, China
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, in 1920 they even took the national championship. It was a season to remember: Bulder scored 59 goals in 14 matches. The center forward set a record of 8 goals in a 14-0 win against Veendam, in 1920 and 8 in a 10-0 win against Alcides, in 1922, that record would last until 1956, where
Henk Schouten
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scored 9.
In the same championship year, Jaap Bulder criticized the Dutch national team for never recruiting players from the north. It cost him his debut in Orange. The NVB excluded the attacker, but he was still part of the Antwerp Games. Rebellion against the officials about the bad shelter in Antwerp and going out again cost Bulder his place. He only returned to the national team after twenty months. He played in the indoor trio with his club mates
Appie Groen
Appie Groen (7 September 1901 – 29 February 1964) was a Dutch footballer. He played in five matches for the Netherlands national football team
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and Harry Rodermond. The eyes for northern talents were finally opened.
On 16 September 1923 Jaap scored 2 goals in 1 minute against Velocitas, in the final of the Groninger Dagbladbeker.
Career statistics
International career
He made his debut for the
Netherlands
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in an August 1920
friendly match
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against
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in which he immediately scored and earned a total of 6 caps, scoring 6 goals. His final match was in an April 1923
friendly match
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against
France
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.
Personal life
Bulder was born in
Groningen
Groningen (; gos, Grunn or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands. The ''capital of the north'', Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of the northern part of t ...
. His older brother
Evert
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Leiderdorp
Leiderdorp () is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland near the city of Leiden. It had a population of in .
The municipality covers an area of of which is water. Leiderdorp has now become a suburb ...