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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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(s) | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1933–1934 | RSV HION | ||
| 1934–1941 | Xerxes Rotterdam | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1941–1949 | Xerxes Rotterdam | 71 | (49) |
| 1949–1952 | Inter Milan | 95 | (47) |
| 1952–1953 | Torino | 12 | (1) |
| 1953–1956 | Valencia | 62 | (38) |
| 1956–1958 | VVV | 64 | (23) |
| 1958–1959 | Levante | 34 | (20) |
| 1959–1962 | Fortuna '54 | 88 | (33) |
| 1962–1964 | Xerxes Rotterdam | 28 | (10) |
| Total | 454 | (221) | |
| International career | |||
| 1946–1961 | Netherlands[1] | 38 | (35) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Servaas "Faas"Wilkes (Dutch pronunciation:[faːsˈʋɪlkəs]; 13 October 1923 – 15 August 2006) was a Dutchfootball forward, who earned a total of 38caps for theNetherlands 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 theKNVB did not allow professional players to participate. He also played for the Netherlands at the1948 Summer Olympics.[2]
Wilkes played forXerxes Rotterdam, before moving toInternazionale in the summer of 1949. There he played 95 matches, scoring 47 goals. After his stay inMilan ended in 1952, he had a one-season spell atTorino. At age 30 he moved toValencia in Spain, scoring a total of 38 goals in 62 appearances between 1953–54 and 1955–56, making him the first foreign idol of the club. He also played forVVV,Levante, andFortuna '54. He died of a cardiac arrest in 2006, aged 82.
He is considered one of the best footballers the Netherlands ever produced, being especially known for his creative style of play and brilliant dribbling. Wilkes was the 4th Dutch player (afterGerrit Keizer,Bep Bakhuys and Gerrit Vreken) who moved to play abroad. He held the record of most goals scored for the Netherlands national team from 1959 until 1998.
The Dutch cartoon character Kick Wilstra was named in part after Faas Wilkes (Wilstra was also named after two other Dutch men's footballers,Kick Smit andAbe Lenstra).
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Europe | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| Xerxes Rotterdam | 1945–46 | 3 | 1 | – | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| 1946–47 | 19 | 8 | – | 19 | 8 | |||||||
| 1947–48 | 24 | 19 | – | 24 | 19 | |||||||
| 1948–49 | 25 | 21 | – | 25 | 21 | |||||||
| Total | 71 | 49 | 71 | 49 | ||||||||
| Internazionale | 1949–50 | Serie A | 34 | 17 | 34 | 17 | ||||||
| 1950–51 | Serie A | 38 | 23 | 38 | 23 | |||||||
| 1951–52 | Serie A | 23 | 7 | 23 | 7 | |||||||
| Total | 95 | 47 | 95 | 47 | ||||||||
| Torino | 1952–53 | Serie A | 12 | 1 | 12 | 1 | ||||||
| Valencia | 1953–54 | La Liga | 28 | 18 | 28 | 18 | ||||||
| 1954–55 | La Liga | 15 | 9 | 15 | 9 | |||||||
| 1955–56 | La Liga | 19 | 11 | 19 | 11 | |||||||
| Total | 62 | 38 | 62 | 38 | ||||||||
| Venlo | 1956–57 | Eredivisie | 30 | 8 | 30 | 8 | ||||||
| 1957–58 | Eredivisie | 34 | 15 | 34 | 15 | |||||||
| Total | 64 | 23 | 64 | 23 | ||||||||
| Levante | 1958–59 | Segunda División | 34 | 20 | 34 | 20 | ||||||
| Fortuna '54 | 1959–60 | Eredivisie | 30 | 16 | 30 | 16 | ||||||
| 1960–61 | Eredivisie | 27 | 5 | 27 | 5 | |||||||
| 1961–62 | Eredivisie | 31 | 12 | 31 | 12 | |||||||
| Total | 88 | 33 | 88 | 33 | ||||||||
| Xerxes Rotterdam | 1962–63 | 20 | 8 | 20 | 8 | |||||||
| 1963–64 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 2 | ||||||||
| Total | 28 | 10 | 28 | 10 | ||||||||
| Total | 454 | 221 | 454 | 221 | ||||||||
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 March 1946 | Stade Municipal,Luxembourg City, Luxembourg |  Luxembourg | 1-0 | 6-2 | Friendly | [4] |
| 2 | 2-1 | ||||||
| 3 | 3-1 | ||||||
| 4 | 6-1 | ||||||
| 5 | 12 May 1946 | Olympic Stadium,Amsterdam, Netherlands |  Belgium | 1-1 | 6-3 | Friendly | [5] |
| 6 | 5-3 | ||||||
| 7 | 6-3 | ||||||
| 8 | 30 May 1946 | Bosuilstadion,Antwerp, Belgium | Belgium | 1-0 | 2-2 | Friendly | [6] |
| 9 | 2-0 | ||||||
| 10 | 21 September 1947 | Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam, Netherlands |  Switzerland | 2-1 | 6-2 | Friendly | [7] |
| 11 | 6-2 | ||||||
| 12 | 9 June 1948 | Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam, Netherlands |  Sweden | 1-0 | 1-0 | Friendly | [8] |
| 13 | 26 July 1948 | Fratton Park,Portsmouth, United Kingdom |  Republic of Ireland | 1-0 | 3-1 | 1948 Summer Olympics | [9] |
| 14 | 3-1 | ||||||
| 15 | 31 July 1948 | Arsenal Stadium,London, United Kingdom |  Great Britain | 3-3 | 3-4 | 1948 Summer Olympics | [10] |
| 16 | 23 April 1949 | De Kuip,Rotterdam, Netherlands |  France | 4-1 | 4-1 | Friendly | [11] |
| 17 | 12 June 1949 | Københavns Idrætspark,Copenhagen, Denmark |  Denmark | 2-1 | 2-1 | Friendly | [12] |
| 18 | 19 May 1955 | De Kuip, Rotterdam, Netherlands | Switzerland | 1-0 | 4-1 | Friendly | [13] |
| 19 | 4-0 | ||||||
| 20 | 6 June 1956 | Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam, Netherlands |  Saar | 3-1 | 3-2 | Friendly | [14] |
| 21 | 3 April 1957 | Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam, Netherlands |  West Germany | 1-1 | 1-2 | Friendly | [15] |
| 22 | 11 September 1957 | De Kuip, Rotterdam, Netherlands | Luxembourg | 2-1 | 5-2 | 1958 FIFA World Cup qualification | [16] |
| 23 | 17 November 1957 | De Kuip, Rotterdam, Netherlands | Belgium | 3-0 | 5-2 | Friendly | [17] |
| 24 | 4-0 | ||||||
| 25 | 13 April 1958 | Bosuilstadion, Antwerp, Belgium | Belgium | 5-1 | 7-2 | Friendly | [18] |
| 26 | 6-1 | ||||||
| 27 | 23 April 1958 | De Kuip, Rotterdam, Netherlands |  Netherlands Antilles | 1-0 | 8-1 | Friendly | [19] |
| 28 | 2-0 | ||||||
| 29 | 4 May 1958 | Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam, Netherlands |  Turkey | 1-0 | 1-2 | Friendly | [20] |
| 30 | 4 October 1959 | De Kuip, Rotterdam, Netherlands | Belgium | 3-0 | 9-1 | Friendly | [21] |
| 31 | 4-0 | ||||||
| 32 | 6-0 | ||||||
| 33 | 4 November 1959 | De Kuip, Rotterdam, Netherlands |  Norway | 3-1 | 7-1 | Friendly | [22] |
| 34 | 7-1 | ||||||
| 35 | 19 April 1961 | Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam, Netherlands |  Mexico | 1-1 | 1-2 | Friendly | [23] |
Individual
En 1954 fue elegido jugador del año, por encima de Kubala y Di Stéfano, los grandes del momento, con los que coincidió.
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