Role Footballer Name Wim Anderiesen | Years Team Died July 18, 1944 | |
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Full name Willem Gerardus Anderiesen Date of birth (1903-11-17)17 November 1903 Date of death 18 July 1944(1944-07-18) (aged 40) | ||
Willem Gerardus "Wim" Anderiesen (27 November 1903 – 18 July 1944) was a Dutch footballer.
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Club career
Born in Amsterdam, he played for Romein and 't Gooi before being admitted to Ajax, where he would play from 1925 to 1940, winning five national titles.
International career
He also earned 46 caps for the Netherlands national football team, and participated in the 1934 and 1938 World Cups.
Personal life
Aside from football, he was employed as typographer, police officer and doorman.
He died in 1944 from pneumonia. His son, Wim Anderiesen Jr., also played for Ajax in the 1950s and died in January 2017, aged 85.
References
Wim Anderiesen Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA