{{Short description|Surinamese footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Guno Hoen | fullname = Guno Hoen | image = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1922|11|26}} | birth_place = Paramaribo, Surinam | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2010|1|21|1922|11|26}} | death_place = Paramaribo, Suriname | height = | currentclub = | clubnumber = | position = Outside forward | youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = | years1 = 1945–1947 | clubs1 = Cicerone | caps1 = | goals1 = | years2 = 1947 | clubs2 = S.V. Voorwaarts | caps2 = | goals2 = | years3 = 1947–1951 | clubs3 = Politie Voetbal Vrienden | caps3 = | goals3 = | years4 = 1951–1952 | clubs4 = VV TGG | caps4 = | goals4 = | years5 = 1952–1960 | clubs5 = S.V. Voorwaarts | caps5 = >150<ref name="helden">{{cite book|url=https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/hoen042spor02_01/hoen042spor02_01_0016.php |title=Onze sporthelden. Deel 2 |year=1989 |author=Guno Hoen |pages=61–68 |language=nl |publisher=Alberga |location=Paramaribo| isbn=99914 9526 6}}</ref> | goals5 = >80 | nationalyears1 = 1946–1956 | nationalteam1 = Suriname | nationalcaps1 = >60 <ref name="helden"/> | nationalgoals1 = ~40 | manageryears1 = | managerclubs1 = | pcupdate = | ntupdate = }}
'''Guno Hoen''' (26 November 1922 – 21 January 2010) was a Surinamese football player, sports journalist, and sports historian. Hoen has played for S.V. Voorwaarts, Politie Voetbal Vrienden, and the Suriname national team. As a footballer, he specialised in penalties and only missed once.
After his football career, Hoen was active as sports commentator, and covered the FIFA World Cup four times. In his later life, he was a sports historian who published a three volume work about Surinamese sport people. His photo collection is on display in the Sports Hall of Fame Suriname.
==Biography== Hoen was born on 26 November 1922 in Paramaribo.<ref name="obit">{{cite web|url=https://www.beri.nl/berichtdetail.php?nr=4309 |title=In Memoriam Guno Hoen |website=Beri |access-date=18 June 2022 |language=nl}}</ref> At the age of 12, he joined the barefoot football club of sergeant Roell. During World War II, he became a soldier in the ''Schutterij'' (militia) and was stationed with the infantry in Albina.<ref name="klapwijk">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.desportwereld.nl/wp-content/uploads/Klapwijk-Hall-of-fame.pdf |title=Van stofzuigerdoos naar Hall of Fame |first=Cees |last=Klapwijk |volume=82-83 |magazine=De Sportwereld |year=2007 |language=nl|page=24}}</ref> In 1942, a football match was organised against the enemy soldiers in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, French Guiana who were stationed on the other side of the Marowijne River.<ref name="klapwijk"/><ref name="tris">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220106092448/https://www.trisonline.nl/de-tris/tweede-wereldoorlog/ |archive-date=6 January 2022 |url=https://www.trisonline.nl/de-tris/tweede-wereldoorlog/ |title=Tweede wereldoorlog|website=TRIS Online|access-date=18 June 2022|language=nl}}</ref> His first international match resulted in a 1–1 draw.<ref name="encycl">{{cite book|url=https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/stut004eers01_01/stut004eers01_01_0102.php |title=De eerste Surinaamse sportencyclopedie (1893-1988) |year=1990 |author=Ricky W. Stutgard |language=nl |publisher=Alberga |location=Paramaribo |isbn=99914 949 3 6}}</ref>
After World War II, Hoen started his football career at Cicerone.<ref name="encycl"/> In 1946, he was selected to the Suriname national football team. That year, he played against French Guiana in Cayenne which resulted in a 9–0 victory during which Hoen scored two goals.<ref name="helden"/> In 1947, he joined S.V. Voorwaarts, but found employment as a police officer. The same year, he was transferred to Politie Voetbal Vereniging, the football team of the police, which was mandatory for serving police officers. In 1951, Hoen left the police force and started to work in Moengo where he joined VV TGG.<ref name="encycl"/> In 1952, he returned to Paramaribo to work for the Ministry of Social Affairs, and started playing for S.V. Voorwaarts.<ref name="encycl"/><ref name="museum"/> During his tenure at S.V. Voorwaarts, Hoen played over 150 matches and scored more than 80 goals.<ref name="helden"/> He specialised in penalties which he could take with both left and right foot. About 80% of his goals were the result of penalties. During his career, he only missed one penalty against Stanley Mijnals, the brother of Frank and Humphrey Mijnals.<ref name="volk">{{cite news|url=https://www.volkskrant.nl/sport/nog-hoort-ie-hoen-hoen-hoen-bij-een-strafschop~bf13db25/ |title=Nog hoort-ie 'Hoen! Hoen! Hoen!' bij een strafschop |author=Marcel van Lieshout |website=de Volkskrant |date=29 June 2000 |access-date=18 June 2022 |language=nl |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
In 1954, Hoen was put on reserve during the match against the Netherlands. In 1956, he was again on reserve against Curaçao which resulted in his resignation from the national team.<ref name="helden"/> S.V. Voorwaarts became national champion in 1952 and 1957. In 1960, Hoen retired from active football, and became a sport commentator and writer.<ref name="encycl"/> In 1970, 1974, 1978, and 1982, Hoen covered the FIFA World Cup for Suriname.<ref name="volk"/> In 1981, he published ''Sporthelden uit ons verleden volume I'', a book about the achievements of Surinamese sport people. In 1999, the third and final volume was published.<ref name="water">{{cite news|url=https://www.waterkant.net/suriname/2010/01/22/sporthistoricus-guno-hoen-overleden/ |title=Sporthistoricus Guno Hoen overleden |website=Waterkant |date=22 January 2010 |access-date=18 June 2022 |language=nl |quote=Years of publication of the books in the obituary are incorrect}}</ref><ref name="museum">{{cite web|url=https://sportmuseum.sr/guno-hoen/ |title=Guno Hoen |website=Sportsmuseum |access-date=18 June 2022 |language=nl}}</ref><ref name="klapwijk"/> In 1988,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dbnl.org/titels/titel.php?id=hoen042sran02 |title=Sranan odo buku |author=Guno Hoen |website=Digital Library for Dutch Literature |access-date=18 June 2022 |language=nl, srn}}</ref> he published ''Sranan odo buku'', a book about proverbs in Sranan Tongo, the creole language spoken in Suriname.<ref name="water"/>
In 2003, the Guno Hoen Foundation was founded to preserve his legacy and extensive photo collection. In 2009, the collection was acquired by the Ministry of Sports.<ref name="water"/> His collection was the trigger for establishing the Sports Hall of Fame Suriname, a museum dedicated to the achievements of the Surinamese sport people. The museum opened in 2016.<ref name="museum"/>
On 21 January 2010, Hoen died in Paramaribo, at the age of 87. He was the father of 11 children.<ref name="water"/>
== Honours == * Knight in the Honorary Order of the Palm (1997).<ref name="water"/>
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == * [https://www.dbnl.org/auteurs/auteur.php?id=hoen042 Guno Hoen at the Digital Library for Dutch Literature] {{in lang|nl}} (All publications available for free download)
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