SV Nieuw Sloten is a Dutch amateur football (soccer) club from the Nieuw Sloten neighborhood in Amsterdam founded in 2004. The club have a Sunday team competing in the Vijfde Klasse.
History Founded on 4 April 2004, SV Nieuw Sloten is most known for an incident in December 2012 involving the death of Richard Nieuwenhuizen, a linesman from the opposing SC Buitenboys B3 team from Almere, as a result of physical assault by six B1 youth players of Nieuw Sloten and one of their fathers after the match. A couple of hours later, he was not feeling well and was taken to the hospital,Grensrechter in elkaar geslagen, De Telegraaf, 2 December 2012 where he died due to his injuries.Grensrechter Almere overleden, De Telegraaf, 3 December 2012 Following the incident, the Royal Dutch Football Association cancelled all amateur matches for 8 and 9 December. A moment of silence was kept during all professional football matches as well as at the FIFA Club World Cup in Japan.Duels afgelast vanwege dood grensrechter, De Telegraaf, 4 December 2012 SV Nieuw Sloten suspended all further activities for the remainder of the season following the incident.Voorlopig geen voetbal voor Nieuw Sloten, De Telegraaf, 3 December The players and the father were convicted of manslaughter,Majid Mohamed, "Richard Nieuwenhuizen death: Six teenagers and 50-year-old father convicted of manslaughter in shocking case of referee killed over a game of football: Death of official who was volunteering at his son's junior club match shocked the Netherlands", The Independent, 17 June 2013."Seven men convicted following death of Dutch linesman Richard Nieuwenhuizen - video", The Guardian, 18 June 2013.Agence France Presse, "Dutch teens jailed for beating linesman Richard Nieuwenhuizen to death", news.com.au, 17 June 2013.Bianca Brasser, , Metro, 18 June 2013. and the disciplinary committee of the Royal Dutch Football Association banned five players from football for life, and suspended one player who showed obvious remorse for a period of 60 months.Graeme Kidd, "Linesman's beating death leads to lifetime football ban", NL Times, 26 October 2015.
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