Dutch Tour of Dutch East Indies 1938

Before and after the 1938 World Cup, where they lost their only match 0-6 to eventual finalists Hungary on June 5th, the Dutch East Indies team toured the Netherlands, playing against a few club sides and a Dutch selection. Although the match against the Netherlands is not counted as an official international match for the hosts, the Dutch team was identical to the first team apart from the forward line, in which four players (all but Van Spaandonck) made their first appearance; three of those were to play full international matches for the Netherlands later, the exception being Linssen.

Date     Venue            Hosts      Score

25- 5-38 Houtrust         H.B.S.      2-2 Dutch East Indies 
31- 5-38 Haarlem          vv Haarlem  3-5 Dutch East Indies
26- 6-38 Amsterdam        Netherlands 9-2 Dutch East Indies
28- 6-38 Houtrust         H.V.B.      2-0 Dutch East Indies
NB: H.V.B. = Haagsche Voetbal Bond

Jun 26, 1938 ("Olympische Dag"); Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam
Netherlands 9-2 Dutch East Indies
  [Van Spaandonck 12, Linssen 13, Dumortier 15, 21, 23, 78,
   Dräger 46, 69, De Vroet 48; Taihitu 40, Pattiwael 45]

Netherlands:
  Van Male (Feijenoord); 
  Weber (A.G.O.V.V.), Caldenhove (D.W.S.);
  Paauwe (Feijenoord), Anderiesen (Ajax), Van Heel (Feijenoord);
  Dräger (D.W.S.), Van Spaandonck (Neptunus), Dumortier (D.O.S.),
  De Vroet (Feijenoord), Linssen (Feijenoord)

Dutch East Indies: 
  Mo Heng Tan (T.N.H.); 
  Jack Samuels (Excelsior), Frans Hukom (Sparta (Bandoeng)); 
  Anwar Sutan (Vios), Frans Meeng (S.V.B.B.), Achmad Nawir (H.B.S.); 
  Hans Taihitu (S.V.J.A.), Tjaak Pattiwael (S.V.J.A.), Henk Zomers (Hercules),
  Suvarte Soedarmadji (H.B.S.), Hong Djien Tan (Tiong Hwa)

The team of the Dutch East Indies, playing in orange shirts (the hosts 
played in white shirts on this occasion), was identical to their World Cup 
team; among the Dutch players in this match, only Jan Linssen would never 
earn an official cap.

Alone among the Dutch East Indies players, goal keeper Mo Heng Tan would 
play a match for Indonesia after independence, representing the P.S.S.I. 
in an unofficial match on 21 Feb 1951 against a Sino-Malayan Selection 
from Singapore, Indonesia winning 6-0 (for further details see 
Novan Herfiyana's site).

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Thanks to Henry Kurniadi and "Last Midfielder"

Sources: sportgeschiedenis.nl, newspaper Het Vaderland

Prepared and maintained by Karel Stokkermans for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

Author: Karel Stokkermans
Last updated: 21 Jul 2011