Pale, Kes

Club career

Cornelis Alidanis Payle, better known as Kes Payle in the early twenties, was one of the best strikers in the Netherlands. Kes began his football career in 1916 with the Feyenoord youth club. Five years later, at the age of 24, Payle became a player on the Feyenoord main squad, and three years later, in 1924, Pale won his first Dutch title.

In 1928, Pale became a two-time champion of the Netherlands, and two years later he won the Netherlands Cup . For more than two decades, Payle was one of the best strikers in the Dutch championship, from 1921 to 1939 Kes played 203 matches for Feyenoord and scored 179 goals, this is the second in the club, and the first Feyenoord record holder is Jap Barendregt , who scored 196 goals in 238 matches.

Team Career

In the Dutch national team, Payle made his debut on March 23, 1924 in a match against the Belgian national team ; in his first match, Kes scored a goal that helped his national team play 1-1 against the Belgians. Two months later, Payle, as part of the Netherlands Olympic team, took part in the Olympic Games in Paris .

In the first match of the tournament, the Netherlands defeated the Romania national team with a score of 6: 0, and Kes scored four goals scored. Payle was unable to take part in the next match, but he took part in the match of the semifinal of the Olympic Games against the national team of Uruguay . Pale opened the scoring in the 32nd minute of the match, but in the second half, Uruguayans thanks to goals by Pedro Cea and Hector Scarone were able to win with a score of 2: 1.

In the match for third place, in which the Netherlands played the Sweden national team with a score of 3: 1, Payle did not take part, he was a substitute. In the list of scorers of the tournament, Kes took fourth place with the Swiss national team player Paolo Sturzenegger , who also scored five goals in the tournament. In total, Kes spent 8 matches and scored 7 goals. Pail spent his last game for the national team on May 2, 1926 in a match against the Belgian national team, which ended in the defeat of the Netherlands with a score of 5: 1.

Coaching career

After the end of his playing career, Kes headed his former Feyenoord club in 1942 ; the previous head coach of the club was Kes van Deike , who led the club from 1941 to 1942. Kes was the head coach of Feyenoord for four years, but during that time he could not win a single tournament. In 1946, Payla was replaced on the coaching bridge by another former Feyenoord striker Adrian Conings .

• Champion of the Netherlands : 1924, 1928
• Netherlands Cup Winner: 1930

• Statistics of matches for the Netherlands national team on the website “Voetbalstats.nl”