Abe Lenstra - Orange 1959
€18,00
Amsterdam, April 19, 1959, Netherlands - Belgium 2-2. Abe Lenstra was almost 39 when he played his 47th and last international game in the Olympic Stadium against Belgium. Nineteen years earlier he made his debut in the Dutch national team, then in the Kuip against Luxembourg. In the photo, he jumps over Belgian goalkeeper André Vanderstappen.
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We stood at Achilles, it was raining and blowing, in a smell of cigars, wet grass and wet men, it growled and stomped around us, soccer was war, even then. Father, do you remember how it got dead quiet for a moment, the ball came, it came out of the grey sky and blew in front of the goal, nobody saw that it was there. Remember how he nodded his head for a moment then, almost humble, almost shy, almost apologetic. We had lost before we knew it. Abe.
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