SV Nieuw Sloten

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SV Nieuw Sloten
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Full nameSportvereniging Nieuw Sloten
Founded4 April 2004;20 years ago (2004-04-04)
Ground Sportpark Sloten, Amsterdam, Netherlands
ChairmanFrans Mobron
League Vierde Klasse Saturday (2020–21)
Websitenieuw-sloten.nl

SV Nieuw Sloten is a Dutch amateur football (soccer) club from the Nieuw Sloten neighborhood in Amsterdam founded in 2004. The club have a Sunday team competing in the Vijfde Klasse. [1]

History

Founded on 4 April 2004, SV Nieuw Sloten is most known for an incident in December 2012 involving the death of Richard Nieuwenhuizen, a linesman from the opposing SC Buitenboys B3 team from Almere, as a result of physical assault by six B1 youth players of Nieuw Sloten and one of their fathers after the match. A couple of hours later, he was not feeling well and was taken to the hospital, [2] where he died due to his injuries. [3] Following the incident, the Royal Dutch Football Association cancelled all amateur matches for 8 and 9 December. A moment of silence was kept during all professional football matches as well as at the FIFA Club World Cup in Japan. [4] SV Nieuw Sloten suspended all further activities for the remainder of the season following the incident. [5] The players and the father were convicted of manslaughter, [6] [7] [8] [9] and the disciplinary committee of the Royal Dutch Football Association banned five players from football for life, and suspended one player who showed obvious remorse for a period of 60 months. [10]

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References

  1. "SV Nieuw Sloten Zondag selectie". Dit is mijn team. Retrieved 2013-11-30.
  2. Grensrechter in elkaar geslagen, De Telegraaf , 2 December 2012
  3. Grensrechter Almere overleden, De Telegraaf , 3 December 2012
  4. Duels afgelast vanwege dood grensrechter, De Telegraaf , 4 December 2012
  5. Voorlopig geen voetbal voor Nieuw Sloten, De Telegraaf , 3 December
  6. Majid Mohamed, "Richard Nieuwenhuizen death: Six teenagers and 50-year-old father convicted of manslaughter in shocking case of referee killed over a game of football: Death of official who was volunteering at his son's junior club match shocked the Netherlands", The Independent , 17 June 2013.
  7. "Seven men convicted following death of Dutch linesman Richard Nieuwenhuizen - video", The Guardian, 18 June 2013.
  8. Agence France Presse, "Dutch teens jailed for beating linesman Richard Nieuwenhuizen to death", news.com.au, 17 June 2013.
  9. Bianca Brasser, "Xandra Nieuwenhuizen: 'Het rouwproces kan nu beginnen': De rechtbank in Lelystad oordeelde gisteren dat zeven verdachten schuldig zijn aan de dood van grensrechter Richard Nieuwenhuizen uit Almere", Metro , 18 June 2013. (in Dutch)
  10. Graeme Kidd, "Linesman's beating death leads to lifetime football ban", NL Times, 26 October 2015.

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