Kees van der Zalm

{{short description|Dutch footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}}

{{Infobox football biography

|name = Kees van der Zalm

|image = VanderZalm1931.jpg

|caption = Kees van der Zalm in 1931

|fullname =

|birth_date = {{birth date|1901|9|30|df=yes}}

|birth_place = Loosduinen, Netherlands

|death_date = {{death date and age|1957|12|25|1901|9|30|df=yes}}

|death_place = Morwell, Victoria, Australia

|nationalteam1 = Netherlands

}}

Kees van der Zalm (30 September 1901 – 25 December 1957) was a Dutch footballer.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/701296 |title=Kees van der Zalm |work=Olympedia |access-date=28 August 2020}} He played in three matches for the Netherlands national football team between 1927 and 1929.{{cite web|url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/72349/Kees_Van_Der_Zalm.html |title=Kees van der Zalm |work=National Football Teams |access-date=28 August 2020}}

Kees migrated to Australia in 1952 with his wife and six children, settling in Morwell. He became coach of the local Morwell Soccer Club and won a Latrobe Valley Soccer League (LVSL) championship with them in 1954.

In an interview with the Morwell Advertiser, van der Zalm said he was "agreeably surprised" by the quality of the LVSL and his presence was hailed as a major boon for football in the Latrobe Valley.{{cite web | url=https://newspaperarchive.com/morwell-advertiser-jun-17-1954-p-16/ | title=Morwell Advertiser Newspaper Archives, Jun 17, 1954, p. 16 | date=17 June 1954 }}

He died of lung cancer in December 1956 in Morwell.