André Roosenburg

André Roosenburg
	Roosenburg in Florence, 1953
Personal information
Full name	Andries Hendrik Roosenburg
Date of birth	18 August 1923
Place of birth	The Hague, Netherlands
Date of death	26 July 2002 (aged 78)
Place of death	Franeker, Netherlands
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
	VDS
	Triumf
1935–1940	ADO
Senior career*
Years	Team
1940–1943	ADO
1945–1947	Neptunia
1947–1950	Sneek
1950–1953	Fiorentina
1954–1955	Sneek
1955–1958	Helmondia '55
1958–1959	VV Leeuwarden
1959	NEC
International career
1948–1955	Netherlands
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Andries Hendrik "André" Roosenburg (18 August 1923 – 26 July 2002) was a Dutch footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1948 Summer Olympics.^[1]^[2]

Career

Born in The Hague, Roosenburg was discovered at a young age by ADO. He made his breakthrough at the club at the onset of World War II and twice won the Dutch league title with ADO. During the war, he went to Delfzijl where he would later play for VV Neptunia.^[3] After this, he played for VV Sneek and from there made a transfer to the Italian club Fiorentina.^[4]^[3] About his time in Italy, Roosenburg said: "That first match against Napoli went pretty well. Those guys had a mid-half, that was my direct opponent, who had just been suspended for a month. He started to file right away, so at one point I gave him a right [punch] on the liver… He immediately fell to the ground. There, they said there that I was the Dutch middleweight champion. I just left it that way."^[5]

Back in the Netherlands, he was suspended for playing professional football, which was disallowed at the time, and was therefore not allowed to return to the Netherlands until 1954, where the rules were changed. Once back, he played for Helmondia '55 and VV Leeuwarden, ^[3]where he became the top goalscorer of the Eerste Divisie with 29 goals in the 1958–59 season. In 1959, he joined NEC where he suffered an injury in his first appearance and subsequently retired.^[6]

Roosenburg was capped nine times for the Netherlands national team,^[3] and took part in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London where he scored his only goal in a match against Ireland.

Honours

ADO

Netherlands Football League Championship: 1941–42, 1942–43

Individual

Eerste Divisie Topscorer: 1958–59^[6]

References

^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "André Roosenburg Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
^ "André Roosenburg". Olympedia. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Oud-international Roosenburg overleden". De Telegraaf (in Dutch). 30 July 2002. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
^ Manaresi, Filippo. "Forza Viola 10/1998". solocalcio.com (in Italian). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
^ Kruisinga, Chris (1979). Eerst de man...: Voetbal in Friesland (in Dutch). Leeuwarden/Ljouwert: Friese Pers. ISBN 9033025000.
^ ^a ^b "Van VV Sneek naar Fiorentina". Royal Dutch Football Association (in Dutch). 6 November 2010. Retrieved 22 December 2020.