Johannes "Jan" Thomée (4 December 1886 – 1 April 1954) 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 ...

. He was born and died in

Delft Delft () is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, Netherlands. It is located between Rotterdam, to the southeast, ...

. He was included in the Netherlands national team for the

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that won the bronze medal. Thomée became the all-time top scorer for the Netherlands on 16 October 1910. His goal against

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was his eleventh goal for the Netherlands, breaking the record that Edu Snethlage had held since 21 March 1909. He improved his record by scoring against

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on 19 March 1911, by scoring two goals against Belgium on 10 March 1912, and by scoring two goals against

on 24 March 1912. Thomée's record would be broken on 9 March 1913, when

Mannes Francken Mannes Francken (20 May 1888 – 19 November 1948) was a Dutch football player, who played for HFC and the Netherlands national team. Biography Francken started out as a goalkeeper, but quickly became a forward. He made his international deb ...

Koninklijke HFC Koninklijke Haarlemsche Football Club (Royal Haarlem Football Club) is a football club based in Haarlem, Netherlands. It is the oldest existing club in Dutch football, founded by Pim Mulier in 1879. During the club's early years, the team only ...

scored his 17th goal for the Netherlands in a match against Belgium. He is still one of few people who joined the national team while still playing second class football at

DSV Concordia DSV Concordia is a multi-sport club in Delft, Delft, the Netherlands founded 1885. The club introduced Jan Thomée to the world when he became the leading football goal scorer for the Netherlands and played in the 1908 Summer Olympics as part of ...

References

External links

Jan Thomée at databaseOlympics.com
* 1886 births 1954 deaths Dutch men's footballers Footballers from Delft Men's association football midfielders Footballers at the 1908 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for the Netherlands Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands Netherlands men's international footballers Olympic medalists in football Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics 20th-century Dutch sportsmen {{Netherlands-Olympic-medalist-stub