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Herman van Raalte
association football player
- April 8, 1921 · Hengelo
- April 3, 2013 · Amsterdam
- 91 years
About Herman van Raalte
Herman van Raalte, 91, Dutch international footballer.
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Full Biography
|Herman van Raalte (8 April 1921 – 3 April 2013) was a Dutch football player.
Club career
Van Raalte played for hometown club HVV Hengelo in the 1930s and 40s before joining Amsterdam side Blauw-Wit during World War II. With Blauw-Wit he lost the 1949–50 Netherlands Football League Championship final. He also played for B.V.C. Amsterdam and V.V. Leeuwarden.
International career
Van Raalte earned his one and only cap for the Netherlands in a November 1948 friendly match against Belgium.
Retirement and death
After his football career, he became a textile merchant. Van Raalte died of a bacterial infection after hip surgery on 3 April 2013 at the age of 91. He was the then oldest living former Dutch international footballer.
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