Faas Wilkes
Servaas "Faas" Wilkes (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈfaːs ˈʋɪlkəs], 13 October 1923 – 15 August 2006) was a Dutch football forward, who earned a total of 38 caps for the Netherlands national team, in which he scored 35 goals (average 0.92 goals per game). However, for a prolonged period of his career, June 1949 through till March 1955, he was banned from the national team since the KNVB did not allow professional players to participate. He also played for the Netherlands at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
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Wilkes in 1960 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Servaas Wilkes | ||
| Date of birth | 13 October 1923 | ||
| Place of birth | Rotterdam, Netherlands | ||
| Date of death | 15 August 2006 (aged 82) | ||
| Place of death | Rotterdam, Netherlands | ||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1933–1934 | RSV HION | ||
| 1934–1941 | Xerxes Rotterdam | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1941–1949 | Xerxes Rotterdam | 71 | (49) |
| 1949–1952 | Inter Milan | 95 | (47) |
| 1952–1953 | Torino | 12 | (1) |
| 1953–1956 | Valencia | 62 | (38) |
| 1956–1958 | VVV | 64 | (23) |
| 1958–1959 | Levante | 34 | (20) |
| 1959–1962 | Fortuna '54 | 88 | (33) |
| 1962–1964 | Xerxes Rotterdam | 28 | (10) |
| Total | 454 | (221) | |
| International career | |||
| 1946–1961 | Netherlands | 38 | (35) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
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