Herman van Raalte | |
Fullname: | Herman van Raalte |
Birth Date: | 8 April 1921 |
Birth Place: | Hengelo, Netherlands |
Death Place: | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Position: | Goalkeeper |
Clubs1: | HVV Hengelo |
Years2: | 1942–1954 |
Clubs2: | Blauw-Wit |
Years3: | 1954–1957 |
Clubs3: | B.V.C. Amsterdam |
Years4: | 1957–1959 |
Clubs4: | Blauw-Wit |
Years5: | 1959–1960 |
Clubs5: | Leeuwarden |
Nationalyears1: | 1948 |
Nationalteam1: | Netherlands |
Nationalcaps1: | 1 |
Nationalgoals1: | 0 |
Pcupdate: | 5 April 2013 |
Ntupdate: | 5 April 2013 |
Herman van Raalte (8 April 19213 April 2013) was a Dutch football player.
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.
Van Raalte earned his one and only cap for the Netherlands in a November 1948 friendly match against Belgium.[1]
After his football career, he became a textile merchant.[2] 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.[3]