Co Prins

Jacobus Theodorus Wilhelmus "Co" Prins (5 June 1938 – 26 September 1987) was a Dutch former 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.

Co Prins
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)
National team
1960–1965 Netherlands 10 (3)
Teams managed
1967 Pittsburgh Phantoms
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

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 qualifier draw with Switzerland on 17 November 1965 in Amsterdam.[1]

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
  1. Haisma, Marcel (2 July 2005). "Co Prins – International Appearances". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
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