Jonkheer Constant Wilhelm Feith (August 3, 1884, in The Hague – September 15, 1958, in Bennekom) was a Dutch amateur football player who competed with great success in the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Club career

He played the majority of his career for HVV, then the top side in The Hague, amassing a stunning 235 goals in 350 matches.

Constant Feith

International career

Feith made his debut for the Netherlands in an April 1906 match against Belgium and earned a total of 8 caps, scoring 2 goals. He was part of the incredible Dutch team, which won the bronze medal in the football tournament at the 1912 Summer Olympics. His final international was in July 1912 at the Olympics against Finland.

Constant Feith

He also made it to the Netherlands national cricket team.

Constant Feith

Personal life

Feith was a judge by profession and worked in the Dutch East Indies, where he was detained by the Japanese during World War II.

References

External links

KNVB profile - OnsOranje

1884 births

1958 deaths

Footballers from The Hague

Men's association football forwards

Dutch men's footballers

Netherlands men's international footballers

Footballers at the 1912 Summer Olympics

Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands

Olympic footballers for the Netherlands

Olympic medalists in football

Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics

World War II civilian prisoners held by Japan

Dutch nobility

20th-century Dutch judges