Jacobus Theodorus Wilhelmus "Co" Prins (June 5, 1938 in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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 - September 26, 1987 in Antwerp) was a Dutch

Netherlands

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 football

Football (soccer)

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 player. He 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

1. FC Kaiserslautern

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 in the mid-sixties, being then one of the few foreign football professionals in Germany

Germany

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Prins earned his first international cap on November 30, 1960, in the Netherlands'

Netherlands national football team

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 4-0 friendly match defeat to Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia national football team

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 in Prague

Prague

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 and won his tenth and last cap in a 0-0 World Cup Qualifier draw with Switzerland

Switzerland national football team

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 on November 17, 1965 in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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As an actor, Prins played Dutch football player and Allied POW Pieter Van Beck in the film Escape to Victory

Escape to Victory

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in 1981.

He died of a heart attack while playing in a match in 1987.