Java born Cees ten Cate came to the Netherlands to study and pursue a football career. There, he played for HFC Haarlem (1908-13) with the exception of the 1910/11 season, when he may have represented AVV Volharding. He played all his three internationals at the 1912 Olympics, as centre forward against Sweden, Austria, and Denmark scoring one goal in the quarter-final against Austria. He was selected because the Dutch top scorers Jan Thomée and non-Olympian Mannes Francken were unavailable. The Netherlands eventually won bronze.
Ten Cate returned to the Dutch East Indies after his completing his studies and worked as secretary of the Deli Company) in Medan on the island of Sumatra. There, he married Maude Amelia Carnegie in 1919. They had one daughter and divorced in 1936. One year later he re-married Alida Hendrika “Lilly” Roos, with whom he had another child. After World War II and Indonesia’s independence he lived in the Netherlands again. Cees and Lilly were divorced in 1948 and married his third wife Catharina “Tine” de Marie in 1953. Cees ten Cate was also an avid tennis player, who won the Sumatra East Coast championship in 1928.
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