Faas Wilkes
Football, Football player
1923 – 2006
Who was Faas Wilkes?
Servaas "Faas" Wilkes was a Dutch football forward, who earned a total of 38 caps for the Dutch national team, in which he scored 35 goals. 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.
Wilkes played for Xerxes Rotterdam, before moving to Internazionale in the summer of 1949. There he played 95 matches, scoring 47 goals. After his stay in Milan ended in 1952, he had a one season spell at Torino. At age 30 he moved to Valencia in Spain, scoring a total of 38 goals in 62 appearances between 1953–54 and 1955–56, making him the first foreign idol of the club. He also played for VVV, Levante, and Fortuna '54. He died of a cardiac arrest in 2006, aged 82.
He is considered one of the best footballers the Netherlands ever produced, being especially known for his creative style of play and brilliant dribbling. Wilkes was the 4th Dutch player who moved to play abroad.
The Dutch cartoon character Kick Wilstra was named in part after Faas Wilkes.
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- Born
- Oct 13, 1923
Rotterdam - Nationality
- Netherlands
- Lived in
- Rotterdam
- Died
- Aug 15, 2006
Rotterdam
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on July 23, 2013
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