Floris Maarten Alphons Maria Evers (born 26 February 1983 in Tilburg, North Brabant) is a field hockey player from the Netherlands, who won the silver medal with the Dutch national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics[1] and at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[2] He was the captain of the team at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[3] He has played in all the top leagues the world of field hockey. After the London Olympics, along with Teun de Noijer, he retired from international hockey. In 2013, he played with the Ranchi Rhinos in the Indian hockey league.
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| Full name | Floris Maarten Alphons Maria Evers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
26 February 1983 Tilburg, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| –2006 | SCHC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006–2015 | Amsterdam | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2002–2012 | Netherlands | 229 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Club career
editHe played most of his career for Amsterdam where he announced his retirement in 2015. Since 2006, Evers had been playing at Amsterdam, with which he became the national champion in 2011 and 2012. Before that, he played for Groningen, Hattem and Stichtsche.[4]
References
edit- ^ Olympic results Archived 4 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "London 2012 hockey men – Olympic Hockey". 3 June 2017.
- ^ "Men's Hockey: Netherlands". London2012.com. Archived from the original on 1 August 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ^ "Floris Evers stopt met hockeyen". nhnieuws.nl (in Dutch). 1 April 2015. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
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