Frans Alfred Meeng

Frans Alfred Meeng
Personal information
Date of birth (1910-01-18)18 January 1910
Place of birth Dutch East Indies
Date of death 18 September 1944(1944-09-18) (aged 34)
Playing position Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
SVVB Batavia
National team
Dutch East Indies
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Frans Alfred Meeng (18 January 1910 – 18 September 1944) was an Indonesian football midfielder who played for the Dutch East Indies in the 1938 FIFA World Cup.[1] He also played for SVVB Batavia.

He died along with thousands of others when the Japanese cargo ship Jun'yō Maru sank after being torpedoed by the British submarine HMS Tradewind.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Copa do Mundo da FIFA França 1938
  2. ↑ The Sinking of the Junyo Maru. One of the largest, yet most forgotten, maritime disaster of WWII!
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