Karel van der Meer

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Karel Louis van der Meer (born 29 July 1905 The Hague, Netherlands - died 23 December 1978 ) was a retired Dutch international football referee. [1]

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Career

He officiated 25 international matches and was FIFA referee in 1939–1956. He attributed 2 matches in 1950 World Cup, 1950 (1) and 1954 (1) World Cup qualifying, 1948 (4) and 1952 (2) Olympic Games [2] and others were in friendly matches. He also attributed 2 matches in Central European International Cup in 1953 and 1955 editions. [3]

In club football he officiated 7 Eredivisie matches in 1956-57 and 1962–62.

Below his important matches that officiated:

DateMatchTeam1ScoreScoreTeam2
31 Jul. 1948 OG 1948 First Round Luxembourg 16 Yugoslavia
5 Aug. 1948 OG 1948 Quarter final Great Britain 10 France
11 Aug. 1948 OG 1948 Semi final Great Britain 13 Yugoslavia
13 Aug. 1948 OG 1948 Bronze medal match Great Britain 35 Denmark
9 Oct. 1949 WC 1950 Qualification Yugoslavia 11 France
25 Jun. 1950 WC 1950 Group Chile 02 England
16 Jul. 1950 WC 1950 Spain 13 Sweden
15 Jul. 1952 OG 1952 Prel. round Poland 21 France
21 Jul. 1952 OG 1952 Final round Hungary 30 Italy
11 Oct. 1953 WC 1954 Qualification Germany 30 Saarland

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