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Mixed Hockeyclub Oranje Zwart is a Dutch
field hockeyField Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
club located in
Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, which was founded on September 1, 1933. With around 1.700 members – as of May 31, 2006 – it is one of the biggest clubs in the
NetherlandsThe Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
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Notable players from Oranje Zwart
- Shahbaz Ahmad
- Troy Elder
Troy Elder OAM is a field hockey striker and midfielder from Australia, who was a member of the Men's National Team that won the golden medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens...
- Carsten Fischer
Carsten Fischer is a former field hockey player from West Germany, who competed at four Summer Olympics for his native country...
- Piet-Hein Geeris
Piet-Hein Willem Geeris is a former Dutch field hockey player, who played 194 international matches for The Netherlands, in which he scored 29 goals. The forward and midfielder made his debut for the Dutch on May 5, 1993 in a friendly match against Ireland...
- Sander van Heeswijk
Sander van Heeswijk is a Dutch field hockey player. He played for Oranje Zwart in the 2000 European Cup....
- Robert van der Horst
Robert van der Horst is a field hockey player from the Netherlands. He was a member of the national team that finished fourth at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-References:...
- Ronald Jansen
Franciscus Ronaldus Maria Jansen is a former field hockey goalkeeper from The Netherlands, who twice won the golden medal at the Summer Olympics....
- Josef Kramer
Josef Kramer was the Commandant of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Dubbed "The Beast of Belsen" by camp inmates; he was a notorious Nazi war criminal, directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of people...
- Harrie Kwinten
- Tycho van Meer
Tycho van Meer is a former field hockey striker from The Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There he won the golden medal with the Dutch national team...
- Rob Reckers
Rob Reckers is a field hockey player from the Netherlands, who won the silver medal with the Dutch national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.-References:...
- Jay Stacy
Jay Jason Stacy is a former field hockey midfielder from Australia, who participated in four Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1988.-References:* *...
- Margje Teeuwen
Margje Josepha Teeuwen is a field hockey midfielder from the Netherlands, who played 145 international matches for the Dutch National Women's Team, in which she scored fifteen goals....
- Teun Rohof
- Darren Cheesman
Darren Cheesman is an England and Great Britain Hockey field hockey International.A member of the current England and Great Britain Hockey Teams, he was also a member of the Great Britain U21 team that won Silver Medal at the 2007 Junior Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.Darren has been...
- Matthijs Brouwer
Matthijs Christian Brouwer is a field hockey player from the Netherlands, who won the silver medal with the Dutch national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. The striker made his debut on June 2, 2000 in a friendly match against Spain...
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