What movie won the academy award for best picture in 1966

Floris Jan Bovelander

Dutch field hockey player (born )

Floris Jan Bovelander (born 19 January ) is a former field hockey player from the Netherlands, who was a member of the Dutch national squad that won the gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

Floris jan bovelander biography of michael jackson life

Floris Jan Bovelander (born 19 January ) is a former field hockey player from the Netherlands, who was a member of the Dutch national squad that won the gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

Six years earlier, at the Hockey World Cup in Lahore, where he scored nine times, he won the world title with the Dutch side at the expense of host nation Pakistan.

Professional athlete

Bovelander was born in Haarlem, and made his debut for the Netherlands national team on Wednesday, 2 October , in a friendly match against New Zealand resulting in a 3–1 win, and went on to play international games, scored goals,[1] and participated in three Olympics.

He was famous for his devastating penalty corners, and was nicknamed Flop, Floppie and Boem Boem Bovelander. He played his last game for the Netherlands in the Olympic Hockey Final in Atlanta.

Floris jan bovelander biography of michael jackson for kids Floris Jan Bovelander, better known as Boem Boem because of his devastating penalty corner strikes, was a member of the Dutch national squad that won the Hockey World Cup in Floris scored nine times in that competition, and the Netherlands beat host nation and cup holders Pakistan in the final.

Thanks in particular to two penalty corners from 'the cannon with the angel's face', the Netherlands won the Olympic title at the expense of Spain, 3–1. Earlier, he took all the bronze medal at the Olympics in in Seoul and was fourth at the Olympics in Barcelona.

During the Men's FIH Hockey World Cup in Lahore, Pakistan, in , Bovelander was played a pivotal role in winning the world title with nine goals, a significant improvement on his first World Cup in in London, where the Dutch hockey team finished seventh.

The third World Cup in which Bovelander participated was the hockey world championship () in Sydney. The team lost the final after penalties from Pakistan.

Floris jan bovelander biography of michael jackson Floris Jan Bovelander (born 19 January ) is a former field hockey player from the Netherlands, who was a member of the Dutch national squad that won the gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

In , Bovelander won gold with the Dutch hockey team at the EuroHockey Nations Championship in Moscow. Four years later, he picked up a silver at the European Championship in Paris. His seventeen goals during that tournament are still the highest number scored by a single player during a European Championship tournament.

Bovelander, nicknamed Flop, Floppie or Boem Boem, spent his entire career (fifteen seasons) with HC Bloemendaal, the club with which he won the Dutch league title six times, one indoor title and one EuroHockey Club Champions Cup in With a tally of goals he was, for many years, the top scorer in the Dutch Hockey League until he was overtaken on the 6 November by Roderick Weusthof and later by Taeke Taekema.

Post-sports career

After his hockey career, Bovelander completed his biology studies, but remained active in hockey.

Biography of nat king cole Biography A decided penalty corner specialist, Floris Jan Bovelander quit hockey as the all-time top scorer in the Dutch hockey league - a record that still stands as of Behind Paul Litjens, he is the second highest scoring Dutch national team player, with goals in international matches between and

Among other things, Bovelander was a member of the top sport committee of HC Bloemendaal for five years, and more than a year under the national coach Joost Bellaart (–) for the national team as manager and assistant trainer. Bovelander studied medical biology in Leiden, but nowadays mainly earns a living as an organiser of hockey camps and clinics, youth and corporate events.

The company that he runs together with his brother Jeroen is called Bovelander & Bovelander. He also wrote a weekly column in the free daily newspaper De Pers. Bovelander is also active as an ambassador for Right To Play.

He started Bovelander Hockey Academy in Netherlands, which is notably also the technical partner of Odisha Naval Tata Hockey High Performance Centre situated in Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar, India.[2]

References

External links