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Faas Wilkes

1923 - 2006

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Servaas "Faas" Wilkes (Dutch pronunciation: [faːs 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Faas Wilkes is the 863rd most popular soccer player (up from 904th in 2019), the 348th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 395th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Dutch Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Faas Wilkes ranks 863 out of 21,273. Before him are Arsenio Erico, Azeglio Vicini, Peter Taylor, Keizo Imai, Vítor Pereira, and Hércules Brito Ruas. After him are Thomas Ravelli, Keylor Navas, Choei Sato, Gheorghe Popescu, Attilio Ferraris, and Brian Laudrup.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Faas Wilkes ranks 129. Before him are Richard Pipes, Philly Joe Jones, James E. Gunn, Maria Gripe, Tito Puente, and Judith Kerr. After him are Ann Miller, Peter Vaughan, Mario Brega, Igor Shafarevich, Joseph Weizenbaum, and Ziba Ganiyeva. Among people deceased in 2006, Faas Wilkes ranks 117. Before him are Ali Farka Touré, Te Atairangikaahu, Elizabeth Bolden, John Money, Coretta Scott King, and Marie Tharp. After him are Billy Preston, Allen Carr, Marek Grechuta, Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Jurij Brězan, and Esther Lederberg.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Faas Wilkes ranks 348 out of 1,646. Before him are Gerard van Swieten (1700), Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau (1743), Hercules Seghers (1589), Rie Mastenbroek (1919), William Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Dietz (1613), and Floris V, Count of Holland (1254). After him are Aletta Jacobs (1854), Dirk Kuyt (1980), John de Mol Jr. (1955), Jacob Moleschott (1822), Dirk Stikker (1897), and Jan Janssen (1940).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Netherlands

Among soccer players born in Netherlands, Faas Wilkes ranks 35. Before him are Aad de Mos (1947), Phillip Cocu (1970), Roy Makaay (1975), Hans van Breukelen (1956), Willy van der Kuijlen (1946), and Ruud Geels (1948). After him are Dirk Kuyt (1980), Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (1983), Danny Blind (1961), Piet Schrijvers (1946), Dick Nanninga (1949), and Marc Overmars (1973).

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