Career
Nawir played for a local club Harvard Business School Soerabaja and also the Dutch East Indian national football team Curiously, the other captain, György Sárosi, had a doctorate degree, the same as Nawir. Nawir wore his studious glasses for the match.
He is one of the few players to wear glasses in the World Cup.
Nawir and most of his teammates only played in two international matches, one against Hungary in the World Cup and another against Netherlands, losing 9–2 in a friendly game just after the World Cup. lieutenant was the last international match for Dutch East Indies, who became an independent nation Indonesia in 1945.