Achmad Nawir

Achmad Nawir (30 June 1912 – 1 April 1995) was an Indonesian doctor and footballer. Nawir played for HBS Soerabaja and the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) national team.

Career Nawir is noted for captaining of the Dutch East Indies national team (predecessor of Indonesia national team) while it crashed out in defeat to Hungary at the 1938 FIFA World Cup, 6–0. Curiously, the other captain, György Sárosi, had a doctorate degree, the same as Nawir. Nawir wore his studious glasses for the match. Dutch East Indies automatically qualified for the tournament after their original opponents, Japan, withdrew from the qualifying round. He is one of the few players to wear glasses in the World Cup. It was the last international match for the Dutch East Indies, which became the independent nation of Indonesia in 1945.

Honours HBS Soerabaja SVB Hoofdklasse: 1935–36, 1936–37, 1937–38, 1940–41 SVB (Soerabajasche Voetbalbond) Dutch East Indies Championship: 1936, 1940-1941 Individual IFFHS Men’s All Time Indonesia Dream Team: 2022