SOCCER PLAYER

Faas Wilkes

1923 - 2006

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Faas Wilkes has received more than 163,920 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Faas Wilkes is the 905th most popular soccer player (down from 782nd in 2019), the 395th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 376th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Dutch Soccer Player.

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Faas Wilkes ranks 905 out of 21,273Before him are Sergei Aleinikov, Roger Piantoni, Nuno Gomes, Toni Turek, Erich Ribbeck, and Pahiño. After him are Ernst Ocwirk, Krasimir Balakov, Gaizka Mendieta, Oleh Protasov, Edmundo Suárez, and Jair da Costa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Faas Wilkes ranks 148Before him are Peter Vaughan, Edward Mulhare, Bob Dole, Joseph Weizenbaum, Gordon Mitchell, and Pahiño. After him are Maria Gripe, Ferenc Szusza, Constantin Dăscălescu, Ann Miller, Seijun Suzuki, and Shoshana Damari. Among people deceased in 2006, Faas Wilkes ranks 124Before him are Elias Hrawi, William Auld, Prince George William of Hanover, Vera Aceva, George Koval, and Esther Lederberg. After him are Coretta Scott King, Allan Kaprow, Marie Tharp, Ferenc Szusza, W. Montgomery Watt, and Johannes Willebrands.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Faas Wilkes ranks 395 out of 1,646Before him are Sjaak Swart (1938), Abraham van Beijeren (1620), Pierre Kartner (1935), Arend Lijphart (1936), Pieter Post (1608), and Dirck Hals (1591). After him are Simon de Vlieger (1601), Cornelis Engebrechtsz. (1468), Theo de Jong (1947), Joseph Luns (1911), Allaert van Everdingen (1621), and Paulus Moreelse (1571).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Netherlands

Among soccer players born in Netherlands, Faas Wilkes ranks 43Before him are Giovanni van Bronckhorst (1975), Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (1983), Jaap Stam (1972), Bennie Muller (1938), Marc Overmars (1973), and Sjaak Swart (1938). After him are Theo de Jong (1947), Hakim Ziyech (1993), Ronald de Boer (1970), Jordi Cruyff (1974), George Knobel (1922), and Virgil van Dijk (1991).