Career
Football career
Van den Polder played for Excelsior between 1954 and 1964. He was one of the club"s first professionals, and made a total of 199 appearances for them. Journalism career
Van den Polder retired from football at the age of 29 to become a journalist, and wrote for a number of papers including Rotterdamse Parool, Vrije Volk, Rotterdams Dagblad and Radio Rijnmond.
