Tonny Kessler
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Hermann Anton Joseph "Tonny" Kessler (20 April 1889 – 15 February 1960) 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 ...
. Kessler, along with brother and cousins Boeli and Dolf, played club football for amateur side
HVV Den Haag HVV (Haagse Voetbal Vereniging; Dutch for The Hague Football Club) is an amateur football club in The Hague, Netherlands. It was founded in 1883 as an extension of HCC, (The)'' Hague Cricket Club''. In 1978, on the occasion of the club's cent ...
. Kessler won three caps for the Dutch national side between 1907 and 1913, scoring one goal. After playing alongside each other in a match against
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in March 1913, the Kessler brothers became the first brothers to represent the Netherlands together in an international match.


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Player profile at KNVB


1889 births 1960 deaths Dutch men's footballers Netherlands men's international footballers Footballers from The Hague Men's association football forwards Kessler family HVV Den Haag players {{Netherlands-footy-forward-stub