Dé Kessler | |
Fullname: | Johann Heinrich Hermann Kessler |
Birth Date: | 11 August 1891 |
Birth Place: | Garut, Dutch East Indies |
Death Place: | Netherlands |
Years1: | 1904-1920 |
Clubs1: | HVV Den Haag |
Caps1: | 328 |
Goals1: | 121[1] |
Nationalyears1: | 1909–1922 |
Nationalteam1: | Netherlands |
Nationalcaps1: | 21 |
Nationalgoals1: | 9 |
Johann Heinrich Hermann "Dé" Kessler (11 August 1891 – 6 September 1943) was a Dutch football and cricket player.
Kessler - along with brother Tonny and cousins Boeli and Dolf - played club football for amateur side HVV Den Haag. Kessler also won 21 caps for the Dutch national side between 1909 and 1922, scoring nine goals.[2] After playing alongside each other in a match against England in March 1913, the Kessler brothers became the first brothers to represent the Netherlands together in an international match.[3]
Kessler played for the Netherlands national cricket team. He played five matches for them between 1921 and 1925, including two against the Free Foresters and one against the MCC.[4] In August 1922 he scored a century against Ingoniti, scoring 100 not out in the second innings of the match.[5]