Wim Landman

Wim Landman (13 April 1921 – 27 June 1975) was a Dutch footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played in seven matches for the Netherlands national team between 1952 and 1956. All the more because Landman made the move at the age of 28.

SHS

In 1954, Landman returned to the pitch. He was offered a professional contract with one of the first initiatives to practice professional football in the Netherlands: BVC Rotterdam. The club did not exist for long and eventually merged into Holland Sport, which later became Scheveningen Holland Sport (SHS). From the 1954–55 season, Landman played for this club and gained three more caps for the Netherlands.

Allegations of match fixing Particularly weak performances in matches of SHS against NAC and BVV led to rumours that Landman had been bribed. In the case of the game against BVV on 27 May 1956, this was deemed a fact for a long time, because the KNVB suspended him for a year and a half in 1959 after it came to light. But in the meantime, bribery had not been proven.

Wim Landman's bribe attempt was planned in 1956 in the supporters' café of BVV, called "De Kiek". One of the three bribers subsequently died when the KNVB started the investigation in March 1959. In 1961, the secretary of BVV died from the consequences of the affair. After the 1961–62 season he retired from football.

International career During the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, he was the standard bearer of the Dutch team. Also four years later he was among the participants in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. From that year, 1952, he played four times for the Netherlands national team. After not being called up for the international match against Norway on 27 September 1953, Landman, who had been known for his vanity, ended his international career abruptly; he felt that he was not taken seriously by the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB). "I didn't even go and watch the games anymore, because then I just got upset and a person shouldn't get too excited. That is bad for health."

Death On the morning of 27 June 1975, Landman took his own life, jumping in front of a train in Bleiswijk.