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Jacob Prince
Jacobus Theodorus Wilhelmus "Co" Prins (Dutch: Jacobus Theodorus Wilhelmus "Co" Prins, June 5, 1938 - September 26, 1987) was a late Dutch footballer who played 184 games for Ajax from 1959 to 1966 and scored 60 goals. In the mid-1960s, he joined Bundesliga team Kaiserslautern and became one of the few foreign players in Germany at the time. Prince's first national team match was the Netherlands' 4-0 friendly win over Czechoslovakia in Prague on November 30, 1960. His 10th and last international match was the Netherlands' 0-0 draw with Switzerland in a World Cup qualifying match in Amsterdam on November 17, 1965. Later, Prince also appeared in the 1981 movie "The Great Escape", playing a Dutch football player who was captured by the Allied forces. In 1987, Prince died of a heart attack during a game.
- Category
- Athletes
- Nationality
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Born
- 1938-06-05
- Died
- 1987-09-26
- Wikidata
- Q264715