Theodorus Johannes Franciscus Brokmann Jr. (3 July 1922 – 24 December 2003), better known as Theo Brokmann, was a Dutch
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
player.
Club career
He made his debut for
Ajax Amsterdam
Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax (), also known as AFC Ajax, Ajax Amsterdam, or commonly Ajax, is a Dutch professional Association football, football Football team, club based in Amsterdam, that plays in the , the top tier in Dutch football. ...
, after the beginning of World War II. He would be a starting line-up player until 1947 when he was replaced by then 17 year old
Rinus Michels
Marinus Jacobus Hendricus "Rinus" Michels (; 9 February 1928 – 3 March 2005) was a Dutch Association football, football player and coach. He list of one-club men in association football, played his entire career for AFC Ajax, Ajax, which he ...
. He played 126 matches and scored 79 goals,
one more than his father
Theo Brokmann Sr. He died in December 2003 at the age of 81.
Ancestry LifeStory: Theo Brokmann
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References
1922 births
2003 deaths
AFC Ajax players
Men's association football forwards
Dutch men's footballers
Footballers from Amsterdam
20th-century Dutch sportsmen
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