Piet Dumortier

Piet Dumortier
Personal information
Full name Pieter Dumortier
Date of birth (1915-11-09)9 November 1915
Place of birth Utrecht, Netherlands
Date of death 5 April 1945(1945-04-05) (aged 29)
Place of death Utrecht, Netherlands
Position Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1930–1944 DOS
International career
1938 Netherlands 1 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Piet Dumortier (9 November 1915 – 5 April 1945) was a Dutch footballer.[1] He played in one match for the Netherlands national football team in 1938.[2]

Nicknamed Rooie Piet (Red Pete),[3] he played for the Utrecht club VV DOS between 1930 and 1944.[4]

Personal life

Dumortier married at Utrecht City Hall in 1944 Everdina Abrahamsen.[4]

Dumortier became proprietor of a cigar shop in Utrecht, but he suffered from Goitre, an enlarged thyroid gland that can lead to problems with swallowing or breathing.[5] He died during a bombing raid at the end of the Second World War, and shortly before his city was liberated from German occupation, when he was being hospitalised for diphtheria - during the raid the Germans allegedly turned off the electricity (by other accounts a power failure) which cut power to his iron lung. Teammates tried in vain to save his life by generating electricity with a bicycle dynamo.[6] He is buried at the Tolsteeg Cemetery.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Piet Dumortier". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  2. ↑ "Piet Dumortier". OnsOranje (Dutch FA) (in Dutch). Retrieved 20 June 2026.
  3. ↑ Kous, Bert (4 May 2020). "Piet Dumortier, topspits die de bevrijding net niet haalde". RTV Utrecht (in Dutch). Retrieved 20 June 2026.
  4. 1 2 3 "Donker - De ijzeren long stopt ermee; en dan is Rooie Piet dood". Nieuws030. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
  5. ↑ Kous, Bert (15 April 2025). "De tragische dood van een topspits: 'Toen is ie gestikt'". RTV Utrecht (in Dutch). Retrieved 20 June 2026.
  6. ↑ "Filmbeelden uit 1943 van Piet Dumortier, de voetbalheld van DOS uit Utrecht". Sportgeschiedenis (in Dutch). 9 November 2025. Retrieved 20 June 2026.
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