Cornelis Wilhelmus "Cor" Kools (; 20 July 1907 – 24 September 1985) was a Dutch

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player and manager who played his entire career for

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. Kools played 16 international matches for the

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, scoring three times, and participated in the

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. Kools is also a member of honour of NAC Breda. He died in

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Association Football

Youth career

Kools was born in the town

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, nowadays part of Breda, and joined NAC Breda at the age of twelve. When playing as a youth player for the club, he developed himself as an all-rounder, who could be placed on every position in the field. His technical skills and his leadership skills made him soon the captain.http://www.derat.nl/int/nl/club/historiepersoonsinfo.asp?persid=28 , Player profile Cor Kools on NAC Fanzine De Rat ONLINE

Senior career

At the age of 18, Kools made his debut on 7 March 1928 in the home match against

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. In 1931 Kools’ career seemed to stop, because he sustained a serious knee injury in the match against NOAD Tilburg. After a surgery in

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, Kools was able to play associated football again, but his international career was over. Kools played football until 1941. His entire career he played for NAC Breda, in which he won twice the championship in the 1e Klasse Zuid, reached the semi-finals of the

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and was one time a runner-up for the Dutch national championship.John de Leeuw and Rob Lemmens (1992), ’80 jaar NAC’.

International career

In March 1928, Kools was invited to play for the Dutch national squad. On 28 April 1928, he played his first international match in

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against

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, in which he scored 1 goal. The Netherlands won this match with 2-0. Later that year he played 2 matches against

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and

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in the

, held in Amsterdam. Until November 1930, he played in every match of the Dutch national team. Due to a serious knee injury he sustained in 1931, he had to end his international career.

Manager career

Kools was two times part of the elftalcommissie of NAC Breda, a committee responsible for training and selecting the 11 best players to play for NAC Breda's first squad. Kools first term in this committee was from 1934 till 1944. His second term was from 1945 till 1947. After his football and manager career, Kools stayed involved with NAC Breda until 1974.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kools, Cor 1907 births 1985 deaths NAC Breda players Dutch men's footballers Netherlands men's international footballers Olympic footballers for the Netherlands Footballers at the 1928 Summer Olympics Footballers from Breda Men's association football midfielders