| Dirk Lotsij | |
| Fullname: | Dirk Nicolaas Lotsij |
| Birth Date: | 3 July 1882 |
| Birth Place: | Dordrecht, Netherlands |
| Death Place: | The Hague, Netherlands |
| Position: | Midfielder |
| Years1: | 1901-1914 |
| Nationalyears1: | 1902 |
| Nationalteam1: | Netherlands ("Van Hasselt XI") |
| Nationalcaps1: | 1 |
| Nationalgoals1: | 1 |
| Nationalyears2: | 1905–1914 |
| Nationalteam2: | Netherlands |
| Nationalcaps2: | 10 |
| Nationalgoals2: | 1 |
Dirk Nicolaas Lotsij, sometimes spelled as Dirk Lotsy (3 July 1882 – 27 March 1965), was a Dutch amateur footballer who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was included in the Netherlands national football team, which won the bronze medal.[1]
In 1902, he was part of one of the infamous "Van Hasselt XI" sides that faced the Belgium national team in a series of unofficial meetings between the two sides in the early 1900s, netting his side's consolation goal in a 1–2 loss on 15 December 1902.[2]
On 30 April 1905, Lotsij went down in history as one of the eleven footballers who played in the first-ever game of the Netherlands national team at the Coupe Vanden Abeele, helping his side to a 4–1 victory over Belgium in Antwerp.[3] Lotsij then had to wait four years before earning another cap for the Dutch, which was again in a 4–1 win against Belgium on 25 April 1909.[4]
Without playing in any other game, he was called up to the Dutch Olympic squad in 1912, starting in all four matches as a midfielder (three of which as the team captain), including the bronze medal match against Finland in which he helped his team with a 9–0 win to not only secure a second bronze medal in a row but also was a record-breaking victory for the Netherlands at the time.[1] [4]
It took him two more years for Lotsij to score his first and last international goal in a friendly against Germany on 5 April 1914 to help his side salvage a 4–4 draw. He played his last match for the team six weeks later, on 17 May 1914, in a friendly against Denmark.[4]
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