Co Prins

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Co Prins (June 5, 1938 in Amsterdam - September 26, 1987 in Antwerp) was a Dutch football player. His full name was Jacobus Theodorus Wilhelmus Prins. Prins played 184 matches for soccer club Ajax Amsterdam from 1959 to 1966 where he scored 60 goals. He played for the German football team 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the mid-sixties, being then one of the few foreign football professionals in Germany.

As an actor, Prins played Dutch football player and Allied POW Pieter Van Beck in the film Escape to Victory in 1981.

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