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Very rare well-illustrated biography of Co Prins.
Prins was a Dutch football player. who 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 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.
He also played for the Pittsburgh Phantoms and the New York Generals.
In Belgium he managed FC Turnhout, Rita Berlaar and KFC Boom.
As an actor, Prins played Dutch football player and Allied POW Pieter Van Beck in the film Escape to Victory in 1981.
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