Arnold (Nol) Hendriks (15 May 1937 – 21 October 2017) was a Dutch businessman and football executive.
Business career
Born in
Renkum
Renkum () is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands.
The municipality had a population of in and has a land area of . Renkum is situated along the river Rhine. The municipality Renkum is part of the ''Stadsregio'' (English: City reg ...
, he moved to Limburg with his parents when his father started working in the mines in
Heerlen
Heerlen (; li, Heële ) is a city and a municipality in the southeast of the Netherlands. It is the third largest settlement proper in the province of Limburg. Measured as municipality, it is the fourth municipality in the province of Limburg.
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. He later worked in the mines himself and as a grocer and dry-cleaner, before becoming a self-made millionaire in the textile business.
Roda JC
Hendriks got involved in the
Roda JC
Sportvereniging Roda Juliana Combinatie Kerkrade (; Ripuarian: ), also known as Roda JC Kerkrade () or commonly Roda JC or Roda, is a Dutch professional football club based in Kerkrade, Netherlands. Roda JC Kerkrade plays in the Eerste Divisie. ...
football club in the early 1980s. He started backing the club financially and became a technical director as well as a member of Roda's supervisory board. He even scouted players himself and his financial injections made Roda JC one of the leading clubs in Holland behind the country's traditional big three, culminating in finishing second to then
Champions League holders
Ajax
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in the
1994–95 Eredivisie season and winning the
KNVB Cup
The KNVB Beker (; en, KNVB Cup), branded as the TOTO KNVB Beker for sponsorship reasons, is a competition in the Netherlands organized by the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) since 1898. It was based on the format of the English FA Cup. Ou ...
twice.
Hendriks was also one of the driving forces behind the club's new
Parkstad Limburg Stadion
The Parkstad Limburg Stadion () is a football stadium in Kerkrade, completed in 2000. With a present-day capacity of 19,979 seats, the stadium was officially opened on August 15, 2000, with a friendly between Roda JC and Real Zaragoza (2–2). ...
, which was opened in 2000. In his later years he severed ties with the club, but was still used as an advisor and made honorary member of the club.
Personal life
Hendriks' wife Margaretha died in the 2000s. He backed out of his businesses when handing them over to his children Ronald and Myrjam in September 2017.
Death
Hendriks was rushed to hospital with a brain hemorrhage in October 2017 and died on the 21st of that month.
Roda JC meldt overlijden van 'suikeroom' Nol Hendriks (80)
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References
External links
In Memoriam: Arnold Hendriks 1937-2017 (Obituary)
- Roda JC
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1937 births
2017 deaths
People from Renkum
20th-century Dutch businesspeople
Dutch football chairmen and investors
Roda JC Kerkrade