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Netherlands Antilles At The 1952 Summer Olympics
The Netherlands Antilles competed in the Summer Olympic Games for the first time at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. The Caribbean nation, then a colonial territory of the Netherlands, was represented by their association football team. Football The Netherlands Antilles national football team was one of 25 teams entered in the tournament. They lost their first round match to Turkey national football team, Turkey and were eliminated from the tournament. ;Squad #Ergilio Hato (gk) #Pedro Matrona #Wilfred de Lanoi #Wilhelm Canword #Guillermo Giribaldi #Edmundo Vlinder #Adriaan Brokke #Jorge Brion #Juan Briezen #Willys Heyliger #Guillermo Krips ;Match results References * * {{Nations at the 1952 Summer Olympics Nations at the 1952 Summer Olympics Netherlands Antilles at the Summer Olympics by year, 1952 1952 in the Netherlands Antilles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flag Of The Netherlands
The national flag of the Netherlands ( nl, de Nederlandse vlag) is a horizontal tricolour (flag), tricolour of red, white, and blue. The current design originates as a variant of the late 16th century orange-white-blue ''Prince's Flag, Prinsenvlag'' ("Prince's Flag"), evolving in the early 17th century as the red-white-blue ''Statenvlag'' ("States Flag"), the naval flag of the States General of the Netherlands#Dutch Republic, States-General of the Dutch Republic, making the Dutch flag perhaps the oldest Tricolour (flag), tricolour flag in continuous use.As a flag that symbolises the transformation from monarchy to republic, it has inspired both the derivative Flag of Russia, Russian flag, and after the French Revolution in 1789 the vertically striped Flag of France, French tricolour, both flags in turn influenced many other tricolours. During the economic crisis of the 1930s, the old Prince's Flag with the colour orange gained some popularity among some people. To end the confu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
