Full name Elisa Hendrik Bakhuys Role Football player Height 1.81 m | Playing position Position Forward Name Beb Bakhuys | |
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Date of birth (1909-04-16)16 April 1909 Date of death 7 July 1982(1982-07-07) (aged 73) Died July 7, 1982, The Hague, Netherlands | ||
Place of death The Hague, Netherlands |
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Elisa Hendrik "Beb" Bakhuys (16 April 1909 – 7 July 1982) was a Dutch football player and manager.
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Club career

Bakhuys made his senior debut for HBS on 27 September 1925 against Haarlem and scored 36 goals in 44 matches for them. He joined Zwolsche AC and had a spell with THOR in his native Dutch East Indies while working for the Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij in Surabaya. He returned to ZAC and later HBS. In 1937 he controversially moved to VVV.

He became the second Dutch player to play outside of the country when he signed as a professional for FC Metz in 1937, in a move which ended his international career. The first Dutch national to play abroad was goalkeeper Gerrit Keizer. Bakhuys was famous for his diving headers. During the Second World War he was forced to work in Leipzig.
International career

Bakhuys scored 28 goals in 23 games for the Dutch national side. He represented the Netherlands at the 1934 FIFA World Cup,



