Nathan "Johnny" Roeg (6 January 1910 – 21 October 2003) 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
striker for
Ajax
Ajax may refer to:
Greek mythology and tragedy
* Ajax the Great, a Greek mythological hero, son of King Telamon and Periboea
* Ajax the Lesser, a Greek mythological hero, son of Oileus, the king of Locris
* Ajax (play), ''Ajax'' (play), by the an ...
.
Roeg was Jewish, and was one of only six Jewish players to have played for Ajax - the others being
Eddy Hamel,
Bennie Muller
Bennie Muller (14 August 1938 – 17 January 2024) was a Dutch professional footballer who played as a midfielder for Ajax and the Netherlands national team.
Early life
Muller was born in the Jewish Quarter of Amsterdam-East. His grandfather ...
,
Sjaak Swart,
Daniël de Ridder and
Ilan Boccara. During
the Holocaust
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, he hid from the Nazis and managed to avoid being captured, while about 80 per cent of his fellow
Amsterdam Jews were killed.
References
External links
In memoriam Johnny Roeg
1910 births
2003 deaths
Dutch men's footballers
AFC Ajax players
Jewish footballers
Jewish Dutch sportspeople
Footballers from Amsterdam
Men's association football forwards
20th-century Dutch sportsmen
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