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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fladian" data-source="post: 124074" data-attributes="member: 5833">By all means, my apologies for double posting.The coincidence is great and I mourn for the loss, despite never meeting him or ever seeing a decent game of him, even though he played with Abe Lenstra for Holland's team. Faas Wilkes, the main striker and legendary in the Nederlands Elftal (the Netherlands' 11, aka. Holland's team), former international and Amsterdam's top striker and finally, one of the people left alive after all this time.Faas Wilkes passed away at the age of 82 on tuesday's morning, 15th of August.,,Wilkes left as one of the first Dutch football players to a forgein country. He placed our land on the international football-map. Wilkes played thirty years top-football. That's a carreer that's worth noticing.",,I am surprised by the death of Wilkes. I phoned with him quite often. Only a while ago, during the World Cup, he called me. That also showed his attraction to the football and the Dutch team. Fortunately we could still give him cards for a game of the Dutch team." - KNVB. (the rules of the Dutch football)<div align="center"><img src="http://www.ad.nl/multimedia/archive/00089/Faas_Wilkes_89029h.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></div>"Wilkes, famed for his bal-control, was the first Dutch football-prof. Growing up as an amateur first at HION and later the Rotterdam's Xerxes, and left in 1949 to Italy. Internazionale and AC Milan both offered a deal to the dribbeling-player. Inter offered the most and Wilkes became with his attacking style of play in Milan an incredibly popular player.After three seasons he left for Torino and a few years later to the Spanish Valencia, where he grew out to become a public-favorite. In 1956 he returned to the Netherlands where he played two years for VVV...Wilkes no longer welcome in Orange.Het professionalisme in Nederland stond nog in de kinderschoenen. Wilkes keerde daarom als speler/trainer terug naar Spanje, bij Levante. Returned from Valencia, Wilkes played three years for Fortuna'54. He was already 38 years old by the time he left Fortuna for his first love, Xerxes. He played there until he was 40. In May 1964 he retired as a player.Faas Wilkes speelde 38 wedstrijden voor het Nederlands Elftal. Daarin maakte hij 35 doelpunten. Omdat hij prof werd, mocht Wilkes zes jaar (tussen 1949 en 1956) niet voor Oranje uitkomen. Pas toen in Nederland het betaald voetbal ingevoerd was hij weer welkom als international.Faas Wilkes played 38 games for the Dutch team. Within those games, he made 35 goals. Because he became a prof, Wilkes couldn't, for six years (between 1949 and 1956), play for Holland. By the time Holland got paying-football, he was once again, welcome as an international.The amount of goals he made in Holland's team was a record for a long time. Until 1998 was it record broken by Dennis Bergkamp. Bergkamp was in need of 61 games to do that however."My apologies for any strange sentences if there are any. I personally translated it.<div align="center"><img src="http://nieuws.voetbalprimeur.nl/pressimages/voetbalprimeur35276.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></div>Faas Wilkes, rest in peace.-Erwin H. J.</blockquote>

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