Piet Dumortier Explained

Piet Dumortier
Birth Date:9 November 1915
Birth Place:Utrecht, Netherlands
Death Place:Utrecht, Netherlands
Position:Forward
Nationalteam1:Netherlands
Nationalyears1:1938
Nationalcaps1:1
Nationalgoals1:0

Piet Dumortier (9 November 1915  - 5 April 1945) was a Dutch footballer.[1] He played in one match for the Netherlands national football team in 1938.[2]

He played for the Utrecht club VV DOS between 1930 and 1944.[3]

Personal life

Dumortier married at Utrecht City Hall in 1944 Everdina Abrahamse.[3]

Dumortier became proprietor of a cigar shop in Utrecht. He died during a bombing raid at the end of the Second World War, and shortly before his city was liberated from German occupation, when he was being hospitalised for diphtheria - during the raid the Germans allegedly turned off the electricity (by other accounts a power failure) which cut power to his iron lung. He is buried at the Tolsteeg Cemetery.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Piet Dumortier . worldfootball.net . 23 November 2021.
  2. Web site: Piet Dumortier . National Football Teams . 23 November 2021.
  3. Web site: Donker - De ijzeren long stopt ermee; en dan is Rooie Piet dood . Nieuws030 . 24 December 2023.