His national team career is the eighth longest in the history of the Dutch national team.
Kick Smit, Faas Wilkes and Abe Lenstra gave rise to the perfect cartoon football player Kick Wilstra.
Together with Abe Lenstra and Kees Rijvers, Faas Wilkes formed the gouden binnentrio, three inside forwards of international class during a time Dutch football was mired in mediocrity due to the refusal of the authorities to admit professionalism.
Born: 13-10-1923 Died: 15- 8-2006 Country: Netherlands Caps: 38 (W19-D8-L11 - GF108-GA78 - %60.53) Goals: 35 (% 0.92 per match) Age First Cap: 22 yr 158 d 10- 3-1946 vs. Luxembourg 6-2 Age Last Cap: 37 yr 223 d 14- 5-1961 vs. East Germany 1-1 National Team Career: 15 yr 65 d
Cap Goals Date Venue Opponent Score Competition
1 4 4 10- 3-46 Luxembourg Luxembourg 6-2
2 3 7 12- 5-46 Amsterdam Belgium 6-3
3 2 9 30- 5-46 Antwerpen Belgium 2-2
4 9 27-11-46 Huddersfield England 2-8
5 9 7- 4-47 Amsterdam Belgium 2-1
6 9 4- 5-47 Antwerpen Belgium 2-1
7 9 26- 5-47 Paris France 0-4
8 2 11 21- 9-47 Amsterdam Switzerland 6-2
9 11 14- 3-48 Antwerpen Belgium 1-1
10 11 18- 4-48 Rotterdam Belgium 2-2
11 11 26- 5-48 Oslo Norway 2-1
12 1 12 9- 6-48 Amsterdam Sweden 1-0
13 2 14 26- 7-48 Portsmouth Ireland 3-1 Olympic Games
14 1 15 31- 7-48 London Great Britain 3-4 aet Olympic Games
15 15 13- 3-49 Amsterdam Belgium 3-3
16 1 16 23- 4-49 Rotterdam France 4-1
17 1 17 12- 6-49 København Denmark 2-1
18 17 16- 6-49 Helsinki Finland 4-1
19 17 13- 3-55 Amsterdam Denmark 1-1
20 17 1- 5-55 Dublin Ireland 0-1
21 2 19 19- 5-55 Rotterdam Switzerland 4-1
22 1 20 6- 6-56 Amsterdam Saar 3-2
23 20 30- 1-57 Madrid Spain 1-5
24 1 21 3- 4-57 Amsterdam West Germany 1-2
25 21 26- 5-57 Wien Austria 2-3 World Cup Qualifier
26 1 22 11- 9-57 Rotterdam Luxembourg 5-2 World Cup Qualifier
27 22 25- 9-57 Amsterdam Austria 1-1 World Cup Qualifier
28 2 24 17-11-57 Rotterdam Belgium 5-2
29 2 26 13- 4-58 Antwerpen Belgium 7-2
30 2 28 23- 4-58 Amsterdam Curaçao 8-1
31 1 29 4- 5-58 Amsterdam Turkey 1-2
32 29 28- 5-58 Oslo Norway 0-0
33 3 32 4-10-59 Rotterdam Belgium 9-1
34 32 21-10-59 Köln West Germany 0-7
35 2 34 4-11-59 Rotterdam Norway 7-1
36 1 35 19- 4-61 Amsterdam Mexico 1-2
37 35 30- 4-61 Rotterdam Hungary 0-3 World Cup Qualifier
38 35 14- 5-61 Leipzig East Germany 1-1 World Cup Qualifier
Total Record
GP GW GD GL GF GA Pts Percentage
38 19 8 11 108- 78 46 60.53
35 Goals in 38 Matches (0.92 per match)
Records by Opponent Gls Pd W D L GF-GA Pts
Austria 2 0 1 1 3- 4 1
Belgium 12 10 6 4 0 39-18 16
Curaçao 2 1 1 0 0 8- 1 2
Denmark 1 2 1 1 0 3- 2 3
East Germany 1 0 1 0 1- 1 1
England 1 0 0 1 2- 8 0
Finland 1 1 0 0 4- 1 2
France 1 2 1 0 1 4- 5 2
Great Britain 1 1 0 0 1 3- 4 0
Hungary 1 0 0 1 0- 3 0
Ireland 2 2 1 0 1 3- 2 2
Luxembourg 5 2 2 0 0 11- 4 4
Mexico 1 1 0 0 1 1- 2 0
Norway 2 3 2 1 0 9- 2 5
Saar 1 1 1 0 0 3- 2 2
Spain 1 0 0 1 1- 5 0
Sweden 1 1 1 0 0 1- 0 2
Switzerland 4 2 2 0 0 10- 3 4
Turkey 1 1 0 0 1 1- 2 0
West Germany 1 2 0 0 2 1- 9 0
Types of Matches and Goals
Goals Matches
Friendlies 31 31
vs Belgium 12 10
World Cup Qualifier 1 5
Olympic Games 3 2
Total 35 38
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