STATS BY JEANMARC & EL MAGO 10

Name: Gerardus Henricus "Puck" van Heel



Country: Netherlands
Club: Feyenoord Rotterdam
Position: *CMF, SS, AMF, DMF
Side: LF/BS
Age: 24-31 years (21/01/1904)

Height: * 172 cm
Weight: * 74 kg

Attack: 81
Defence: 71
Balance: 81
Stamina: 80
Top Speed: 75
Acceleration: 73
Response: 78
Agility: 76
Dribble Accuracy: 86
Dribble Speed: 73
Short Pass Accuracy: 93
Short Pass Speed: 79
Long Pass Accuracy: 95
Long Pass Speed: 78
Shot Accuracy: 75
Shot Power: 81
Shot Technique: 79
Free Kick Accuracy: 73
Curling: 85
Header: 81
Jump: 84
Technique: 88
Aggression: 75
Mentality: 82
Keeper Skills: 50
Team Work: 91

Injury Tolerance: B
Condition/Fitness: 6
Weak Foot Accuracy: 6
Weak Foot Frequency: 4
Consistency: 6
Growth Type: Early Lasting


CARDS:
P08: Pinpoint Pass
P20: Talisman
S02: Passer
S06: Outside Curve
S16: 1-footed Roulette

SPECIAL ABILITIES: Tactical Dribble - Playmaking - Passing - Outside

Attack / Defence Awareness Card: Balanced


INFO:

One of the greatest Dutch players. Van Heel was the brain and captain of Feyenoord in the years before the war. He played as inside left and left wing half. He was pretty slow but technically gifted, had solid strength and was good in aerial play. Van Heel had great vision and superb passing range, he'd put great swerve on the pass to remain out of the range of defenders and softly loose on speed in the right moment to land on the head or foot of his teammates. Van Heel was the fourth of eleven children of a Roman Catholic family in Rotterdam-Zuid. His father had moved there from North Brabant, and was hired as a longshoreman. On the streets he developed the game with friends of his unique ball technology. At 15 he became a member of Feijenoord, with 19 of the midfielder was playing for the first time in the first team of Feijenoord. Thus was laid the foundation for a career during which he was "one of the greatest football players in Feijenoord and country before the Second World War" should be. As an inside left, he was involved in the initial success of Rotterdam, in the first championship season in 1924, he was in some games in the first team, as Kees Pijl with the national team at the Olympic Games in Paris. Among them were the two crucial games for the championship at the Whitsun (8th and 9th June 1924) against Sport Club Enschede and Groningen to Be Quick. Rotterdam had to win both games, with two goals in the 2-0 win in Enschede van Heel off the bench to put the foundation stone for the first Feijenoord title. Against Groningen he was then in the starting lineup and was in a 3-1 victory one of the best players. However, he was a regular player at Cor van der Velde is not over, and was therefore used in this and the following season, at least during the second team. After van Heel, however, had a successful debut in the national team celebrated, gave van der Velde volunteered his "earlier rights" half left in the storm and care for it themselves, taking the younger "his" position was. As the Rotterdam in 1928 their second title imports, was one of the "left-footed" is already the root formation. Until April 1940, he celebrated after three more championships and two cup victories with Feijenoord. For many years he was captain, in 322 league games, he scored 43 goals. The association honored him in 1935 in that it could lay the foundation stone for the new Feijenoord Stadium. The first game in 1937 against was Beerschot in the Rotterdam team. In a 2-1 victory against Germany, he came to Amsterdam but not yet used. First introduced in the friendly match in Zurich, he was on 19 April 1925 made its debut in Orange. Although the match was lost by 1:4, but now he belonged to the tribe of Oranje and took her to the 1928 Olympic Games on home soil in part, but they were disappointing, despite reaching the final round of the consolation for the hosts. The powerful midfielder, who had excellent overview of the game was, at that time as a 24 year old has a "figurehead of Feijenoord and rising star of Dutch football". However, in the 0-2 defeat in their opening match against Uruguay was his direct opponent José Leandro Andrade, undisputed best player in this as in the previous tournament, the inside left its borders. 1932 was the first time, van Heel team captain the national team, from the beginning of 1934 he was the captain's armband until his international career is no longer on. Accordingly, he also led the team in the World Cup 1934 in Italy, as already in the second round with a 2-3 defeat against Switzerland came from. On 2 . May 1937 he passed with 57 missions as Harry Dénis international record. Also during the World Cup 1938 in France, he stood with his team in the second round, this time retired from the Netherlands by 0-3 against Czechoslovakia. Then Van Heel made on 23 October 1938 in Copenhagen, Denmark in a 2-2 draw with his last international game, the captain took Wim changes giants. A total of 64 games, Van Heel for the Netherlands - a record that only Ruud Krol on 22 May 1979 exceeded. As a pure amateur athlete had already van Heel during his playing days alongside must earn his living, he worked in a margarine factory, as a representative of the coal trade of a board member and as Feijenoord tobacconist. After his playing days, he worked as a coach at some clubs lower leagues in the region, including at Fortuna Vlaardingen, 'SSS Spijkenisse and Flakkee. Like many former football player he was cafeteria operator, its restaurants were located in the Rotterdam Fransstraat Jonker and Bas Jungeriusstraat. In 1969 he retired as pensioners from the public, and lived modestly and simply in Rotterdam, where he died in 1984. 1997 in Rotterdam a street was named after him.