Dick van den Polder
association football player · journalist
- September 23, 1934 · Rotterdam
- October 21, 2013
- 79 years
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Dick van den Polder, 79, Dutch footballer (S.B.V. Excelsior).
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|Dick van den Polder (23 September 1934 – 21 October 2013) was a Dutch footballer and journalist.
Career
Football career
Van den Polder played for Excelsior between 1954 and 1964.[citation needed] He was one of the club's first professionals, and made a total of 199 appearances for them.
Journalism career
Van den Polder retired from football at the age of 29 to become a journalist, and wrote for a number of papers including Rotterdamse Parool, Vrije Volk, Rotterdams Dagblad and Radio Rijnmond.
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