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Piet Keizer
Dutch footballer (1943–2017) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Petrus Johannes "Piet" Keizer (14 June 1943 – 10 February 2017) was a Dutch professional footballer who played as a left winger.
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Full name | Petrus Johannes Keizer | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | (1943-06-14)14 June 1943 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Amsterdam, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 10 February 2017(2017-02-10) (aged 73) | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Left winger | ||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
1953–1955 | Amstel | ||||||||||||||||
1955–1961 | Ajax | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
1961–1974 | Ajax | 365 | (146) | ||||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||||
1962–1974 | Netherlands | 34 | (11) | ||||||||||||||
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
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As part of the "Total Football" Ajax Amsterdam team of the 1960s and 1970s, Keizer was particularly notable during the successive managerial tenures of Rinus Michels and Stefan Kovacs (1965–1973). He is widely considered one of the greatest players in Dutch football history. Dutch writer Nico Scheepmaker once said: "Cruyff is the best, but Keizer is the better one".[1]