On the occasion of the 67th Recurrence of his birthday, the thought of Fupballmagazin 11 friends on 5 January in the Dutch soccer referee Ignace van Swieten. Van Swieten had made in the 1970s made no secret of his homosexuality. Career, he still did. Gratitude and appreciation for the excellent work on the pitch his colleagues honored him in 1984 with the election of the "Referee of the Year". Van Swieten's career was abruptly halted in 1990 when he was brutally assaulted by a drug addict in his apartment with a hammer. (Van Swieten was in civilian life a probation officer.) The Junkie told the court that he had been sexually molested by van Swieten. He took the back while later and admitted that

it had taken him just about money, but because his victim had been criminally convicted and mentally and physically hard hit. Van Swieten died in 2005 at the age of 62 years to the late consequences of severe injuries