# Law Adam
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{{short description|Dutch footballer (1908-1941)}}
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{{Infobox football biography
| name = Law Adam
| image = Law Adam (1931).jpg
| fullname = Lawrence Adam
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1908|6|11|df=y}}
| birth_place = [Probolinggo](/source/Probolinggo), [Dutch East Indies](/source/Dutch_East_Indies)
| death_date = {{death date and age|1941|5|15|1908|6|11|df=y}}
| death_place = [Surabaya](/source/Surabaya), [Dutch East Indies](/source/Dutch_East_Indies)
| height =
| position = [Forward](/source/Forward_(association_football))[{{cite web|url=http://www.national-football-teams.com/player/20631/Law_Adam.html|title=Law Adam|publisher=National Football Teams|accessdate=31 August 2015}}]
| youthyears1 =
| youthclubs1 =
| years1 = {{0|0000}}–1927
| years2 = 1927–1933
| years3 = 1933
| clubs1 = [HVV](/source/HVV_Den_Haag)
| clubs2 = [Grasshoppers](/source/Grasshopper_Club_Z%C3%BCrich)
| clubs3 = [HVV](/source/HVV_Den_Haag)
| caps1 =
| goals1 =
| nationalyears1 = 1929
| nationalyears2 = 1930–1931
| nationalteam1 = [Switzerland](/source/Switzerland_national_football_team)
| nationalteam2 = [Netherlands](/source/Netherlands_national_football_team)
| nationalcaps1 = 1
| nationalcaps2 = 11
| nationalgoals1 = 0
| nationalgoals2 = 6
}}
'''Lawrence "Law" Adam''' (11 June 1908 – 15 May 1941) was a Dutch-Swiss [football](/source/association_football) player who played as a [forward](/source/Forward_(association_football)). He was born in [Probolinggo](/source/Probolinggo), [Dutch East Indies](/source/Dutch_East_Indies) and died in [Surabaya](/source/Surabaya), [Dutch East Indies](/source/Dutch_East_Indies).[ Law Adam is reportedly the first European footballer to use the [Scissors move](/source/Step_over), also known as the ''step over'', earning the nickname "Adam the Scissorsman" in the 1920s and 1930s.][{{cite book|last1=Simpson|first1=Paul|last2=Hesse|first2=Uli|title=Who Invented the Stepover?: and other crucial football conundrums|date=2013|publisher=Profile Books|location=London|isbn=9781847658425|page=38|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sQecAQAAQBAJ&dq=law+adam+scissors+man&pg=PA38|accessdate=31 August 2015}}]
== Club career ==
Adam started his football career for [HVV Den Haag](/source/HVV_Den_Haag) in the [Netherlands](/source/Netherlands). At the age of 19, he started his study in [Zürich](/source/Z%C3%BCrich), where he played for [Grasshopper Club Zürich](/source/Grasshopper_Club_Z%C3%BCrich). He made his debut for [Switzerland](/source/Switzerland_national_football_team) in a match against [Austria](/source/Austria_national_football_team) in 1929.[{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/adam-intlg.html|title=Law Adam, Goals in International Matches|publisher=[Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation](/source/Rec.Sport.Soccer_Statistics_Foundation)|date=2 July 2005|accessdate=30 November 2007}}] The [Dutch national team](/source/Netherlands_national_football_team) visited Switzerland a year later, and Adam was invited to play for his native Netherlands. Switzerland won the match 6–3.[{{cite web|url=http://www.voetbalstats.nl/nedxi/111.html |title=Zwitserland - Nederland 6 - 3 |publisher=Voetbalstats.nl |accessdate=28 November 2007 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071022053948/http://voetbalstats.nl/nedxi/111.html |archivedate=22 October 2007 |url-status=dead }}] Law Adam would play eleven matches for the Netherlands, scoring six goals.[{{cite web|url=http://www.voetbalstats.nl/nedxi/121.html |title=Duitsland - Nederland 0 - 2 |publisher=Voetbalstats.nl |accessdate=10 December 2007 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071117130302/http://www.voetbalstats.nl/nedxi/121.html |archivedate=17 November 2007 |url-status=dead }}]
In the spring of 1933, Adam returned to [HVV Den Haag](/source/HVV_Den_Haag), but heart problems forced him to end his career a few months later, at the age of 24.
== Death ==
Adam died in 1941, at the age of 32, during a friendly match between football clubs Thor and Anasher in [Surabaya](/source/Surabaya) in the [Dutch East Indies](/source/Dutch_East_Indies). Adam had scored two goals and given three assists during the match, and left the pitch in the eighth minute of the second half, with his hand on his heart. Referee W.A. Lambeck wrote about the death of Adam in magazine ''De Scheidsrechter''. He recalled asking Adam if it was serious, to which Adam had replied: "No, but my heart is playing up again and they've got a nice lead, so I can get dressed now."[{{cite web|url=http://www.sportgeschiedenis.nl/2007/10/08/vergeten-sporthelden-law-adam.aspx|title=Vergeten Sporthelden: Law Adam|author=Jurryt van de Vooren|publisher=Sportgeschiedenis.nl|date=8 October 2007|accessdate=30 November 2007|language=Dutch}}] Lambeck continued: "When I entered the dressing room after the final whistle, Adam was on the massage table, all blue. The doctor and the heart specialist, who were immediately summoned, tried to revive the spirits by giving him injections in the heart area. Half an hour later, they could only establish death."