Co Prins

Co Prins

Personal information
Full name	Jacobus Theodorus Wilhelmus Prins
Date of birth	5 June 1938(1938-06-05)
Place of birth	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date of death	26 September 1987(1987-09-26) (aged 49)
Place of death	Antwerp, Belgium
Playing position	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)
1967-1968	Pittsburgh Phantoms	21	(8)
1968-1969	New York Generals	27	(5)
1969-1971	MVV Maastricht	85	(5)
1971-1972	Vitesse	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. † Appearances (Goals).

Jacobus Theodorus Wilhelmus "Co" Prins (June 5, 1938 in Amsterdam - September 26, 1987 in Antwerp) was a Dutch 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 November 30, 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 November 17, 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.

External links

• Career Stats

References

1. ^ Prins' international appearances

Persondata
Name	Prins, Co
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	June 5, 1938
Place of birth	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date of death	September 26, 1987
Place of death	Antwerp, Belgium