 Prins in 1965 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Jacobus Theodorus Wilhelmus Prins | ||
| Date of birth | (1938-06-05)5 June 1938 | ||
| Place of birth | Amsterdam, Netherlands | ||
| Date of death | 26 September 1987(1987-09-26) (aged 49) | ||
| Place of death | Antwerp, Belgium | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1959–1963 | AFC Ajax | 114 | (33) |
| 1963–1965 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 36 | (9) |
| 1965–1967 | AFC Ajax | 39 | (9) |
| 1967 | Pittsburgh Phantoms | 21 | (8) |
| 1968 | New York Generals | 27 | (5) |
| 1969–1971 | MVV Maastricht | 85 | (5) |
| 1971–1972 | Vitesse Arnhem | 17 | (2) |
| 1972–1974 | Helmond Sport | 23 | (1) |
| International career | |||
| 1960–1965 | Netherlands | 10 | (3) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1967 | Pittsburgh Phantoms | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Jacobus Theodorus Wilhelmus "Co" Prins (5 June 1938 – 26 September 1987) was a Dutch association football player. He played 184 matches for football club Ajax Amsterdam from 1959 to 1966 where he scored 60 goals. He played for the German football team 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the mid-sixties, being then one of the few foreign football professionals in Germany.
Prins earned his first international cap on 30 November 1960, in the Netherlands' 4–0 friendly match defeat to Czechoslovakia in Prague and won his tenth and last cap in a 0–0 World Cup qualifying draw with Switzerland on 17 November 1965 in Amsterdam.
As an actor, Prins played Dutch football player and Allied POW Pieter Van Beck in the film Escape to Victory in 1981.
He died of a heart attack while playing in a match in 1987.
References
- Haisma, Marcel (2 July 2005). "Co Prins – International Appearances". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
External links
- Co Prins at National-Football-Teams.com
- 1938 births
- 1987 deaths
- Dutch men's footballers
- Dutch expatriate men's footballers
- Netherlands men's international footballers
- National Professional Soccer League (1967) players
- Pittsburgh Phantoms (NPSL) players
- AFC Ajax players
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- Eerste Divisie players
- Footballers from Amsterdam
- Dutch football managers
- National Professional Soccer League (1967) coaches
- Association football players who died while playing
- 1. FC Kaiserslautern players
- Bundesliga players
- Dutch expatriate sportspeople in West Germany
- Expatriate men's footballers in West Germany
- North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players
- Dutch expatriate sportspeople in the United States
- Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
- New York Generals players
- MVV Maastricht players
- SBV Vitesse players
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- Men's association football forwards
- 20th-century Dutch male actors
- Sport deaths in Belgium
- 20th-century Dutch sportsmen