Hermann Johannes "Boelie" Kessler (30 November 1896 – 17 August 1971) was a Dutch

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

player. Kessler - along with brother

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and cousins

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and Dé - played club football for amateur side

HVV Den Haag HVV (Haagse Voetbal Vereniging: Dutch for ''(The) Hague Football Club'') is an amateur football club in The Hague, Netherlands. It was founded in 1883 as an extension of HCC, (The)'' Hague Cricket Club''. In 1978, on the occasion of the club's ...

. Kessler also won nine caps for the Dutch national side between 1919 and 1922, scoring two goals. He was the youngest son of Dutch oil entrepreneur

Jean Baptiste August Kessler Jean Baptiste August Kessler (15 December 1853 – 14 December 1900) was a Dutch entrepreneur and oil explorer who was largely responsible for the growth and development of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., now part of present-day Shell. Early life ...

External links

Player profile at VoetbalStats.nl
1896 births 1971 deaths Dutch footballers Netherlands men's international footballers Footballers from The Hague Men's association football players not categorized by position Kessler family {{Netherlands-footy-bio-stub