Jacobus Prins

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Jacobus Prins

Jacobus "Co" Prins (born June 5, 1938 in Amsterdam , † September 25, 1987 in Antwerp ) was a Dutch football player . With Ajax Amsterdam , the technically brilliant half -forward won the championship in 1960 and the cup in 1961 in the World Cup system at the time , and he made ten international matches (3 goals) in the Dutch national team from 1960 to 1965. From 1963 to 1965, Prins played 36 league games in the Bundesliga with 1. FC Kaiserslautern and scored nine goals.

Life

Prins played for OVVO Amsterdam in his youth and moved to Ajax Amsterdam in 1959. In his first season at Ajax, 1959/60, he scored eight goals in 34 league appearances and won the Eredivisie championship with his team . In the second Ajax year, 1960/61 , the title defense was not successful, with two points behind Feijenoord Rotterdam , the defending champion had to be content with the runner-up. Prins had scored 12 goals in 32 league games. On October 30, 1960, he made his debut for the Dutch national team in a friendly match against the Czechoslovak national soccer team in a 4-0 defeat in Prague . After 114 games for Ajax Amsterdam, in which he scored 33 goals, Prins moved for 45,000 guilders in 1963 as a top commitment to 1. FC Kaiserslautern. He was the first foreigner in the Bundesliga history of the "Red Devils".

In addition to Prins, Harald Braner (Wormatia Worms), Horst-Dieter Strich (Mainz 05) and Willi Wrenger (RW Oberhausen) also came to Betzenberg for the first round of the Bundesliga . Prins made his debut together with Walter Gawletta , Willy Reitgaßl , Winfried Richter and Harald Braner on August 24, 1963 in the FCK attack in a 1-1 away draw against Eintracht Frankfurt, in the new elite class of DFB football. He scored his first goal on September 7th in a 2-2 draw at Hertha BSC, where he had formed a technically strong axis with Jürgen Neumann . In the 3: 9 away defeat on November 16 at Borussia Dortmund, the man from Amsterdam was sent off the field in the 30th minute. On matchday 20, February 15, 1964, Prins was the winning goal scorer for the 2-1 home win against the team from 1860 Munich trained by Max Merkel . When FCK achieved a 3-1 home win against 1. FC Nürnberg on matchday 24, March 14, 1964, the Dutch “magician” was awarded a score of 1. In the game report in the round chronicle it is explicitly stated: “Prins showed the full range of his skills in this game!” The round balance for Trainer Brocker also states: “Brocker also had difficulties with the capricious appearances of the important connectors Reitgaßl and Prins, who between Welt - and Kreisklasse acted. ”By 1965, Prins had played 36 games in the Bundesliga and scored nine goals. The two-year guest performance in the Palatinate ended in a conciliatory manner, because in the dramatic final spurt in 1965 under Brocker's successor Werner Liebrich , Prins was one of the decisive actors who still averted the relegation that was believed to be certain. On April 7, 1965, it was also used in the Netherlands' World Cup qualifier against Northern Ireland in Rotterdam. The game ended 0-0 and Prins played alongside other players like Eddy Pieters-Graafland , Rinus Israel , Pierre Kerkhoffs , Henk Groot and Coen Moulijn .

After a knee injury, he went back to Ajax Amsterdam for the 1965/66 season and played for the Netherlands for the tenth and final international match on October 17, 1965. The World Cup qualifier in Amsterdam against Switzerland ended 0: 0 and Prins signed in December 1966 in addition to some other Dutchmen a four-year contract with the Pittsburgh Phantoms for the coming season in the National Professional Soccer League , one of the two predecessors of the North American Soccer League , the from 1968 to the end of 1984 it had global coverage. Since the NPSL was not recognized by FIFA, he was banned by the Dutch Football Association in September 1967 . The ban was lifted on June 1, 1968.

The Phantoms stopped playing after only one year and Prins played after 21 league appearances with eight goals in 1968 for the New York Generals in the NASL. With the Generals, he scored five goals in 27 league games. After the dissolution of the generals at the end of the season, Prins joined MVV Maastricht , where the attacking half-forward scored five goals in 79 league appearances. In December 1971 Prins moved to Vitesse Arnhem and in June 1972 joined Helmond Sport . He ended his football career in 1975.

At Karn / Rehberg it is noted on Prins: "A brilliant, but rarely constant half-striker, not a bit model professional, privately an eccentric who spent considerable parts of his free time in Mannheim's red light district."

After his playing career, Prins was coach of the smaller Belgian clubs KFC Rita Berlaar, KV Turnhout and Boom FC. At the same time, he ran his own bar in Antwerp, the Prince Pub.

In 1981 he played the supporting role of the Dutch footballer Pieter van Beck alongside Sylvester Stallone , Michael Caine and Pelé in Escape or Victory .

On September 25, 1987 Jacobus Prins died of a heart attack while celebrating a goal during an old man's game by FC Schilde .

literature

  • Dominic Bold: 1. FC Kaiserslautern. The Chronicle. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2013. ISBN 978-3-7307-0046-4 . P. 173.
  • Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 3: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 1. The founding years 1963–1975. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89784-132-0 .
  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 392.
  • Holger Jenrich (Ed.): Radi, Buffy and a Sputnik. Foreigners in the Bundesliga 1963–1995. Klartext Verlag. Essen 1996. ISBN 3-88474-280-9 . Pp. 54/55.
  • Ulrich Merk, Andre Schulin: Bundesliga Chronicle 1963/64. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2004. ISBN 3-89784-083-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jürgen Bitter: Germany's football. The encyclopedia. FA Herbig. Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-7766-2558-5 . P. 571
  2. ^ Bold: 1. FC Kaiserslautern. The Chronicle. P. 172
  3. ↑ Ulrich Merk, Andre Schulin: Bundesliga Chronicle 1963/64. P. 40
  4. ↑ Ulrich Merk, Andre Schulin: Bundesliga Chronicle 1963/64. P. 75
  5. ↑ Ulrich Merk, Andre Schulin: Bundesliga Chronicle 1963/64. P. 126
  6. ↑ Ulrich Merk, Andre Schulin: Bundesliga Chronicle 1963/64. P. 25
  7. ^ Bold: 1. FC Kaiserslautern. The Chronicle. P. 173
  8. ^ Karn, Rehberg: Spiellexikon 1963-1994. P. 392
  9. ^ Karn, Rehberg: Spiellexikon 1963-1994. P. 392

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personal data
SURNAME Prins, Jacobus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prins, Co
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1987
Place of death Antwerp , Belgium