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Key facts
- Full name
- Servaas Wilkes
- Date of birth
- ( 1923-10-13 ) 13 October 1923
- Place of birth
- Rotterdam , Netherlands
- Date of death
- 15 August 2006 (2006-08-15) (aged 82)
- Place of death
- Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Height
- 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
- Position
- Forward
- 1933 1934
- RSV HION
- 1934 1941
- Xerxes Rotterdam
- Years
- Team
- 1941 1949
- Xerxes Rotterdam
- 1949 1952
- Inter Milan
- 1952 1953
- Torino
- 1953 1956
- Valencia
- 1956 1958
- VVV
- 1958 1959
- Levante
- 1959 1962
- Fortuna '54
- 1962 1964
- Xerxes Rotterdam
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Place of birth
- Rotterdam
- Place of death
- Rotterdam
- Occupation
- association football player
- Participant in
- 1948 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Netherlands national association football team
- Position played
- forward
- Country for sport
- Netherlands
- Image
- 04-03-1960 Faas Wilkes.jpg
- Height
- 180
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- Commons category
- Faas Wilkes
- date of birth
- 1923-10-13
- date of death
- 2006-08-15
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- end of work period
- 1964-00-00
- start of work period
- 1941-00-00
- name in native language
- Servaas (Faas) Wilkes
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Career
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