Pleun Strik

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Pleun Strik
Strik in 1974
Personal information
Date of birth 27 May 1944
Place of birth Rotterdam, Reichskommissariat Niederlande (now Netherlands)
Date of death 14 July 2022(2022-07-14) (aged 78)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
VCS Den Haag
Feijenoord
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1964 Feyenoord Rotterdam 0 (0)
1964–1967 Go Ahead Eagles 69 (6)
1967–1976 PSV Eindhoven 270 (8)
1976–1978 FC Eindhoven 53 (9)
1978–1982 NEC Nijmegen 105 (8)
1982–1984 VVV-Venlo 47 (1)
Total 544 (32)
International career
1969–1974 Netherlands 8 (1)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Netherlands
FIFA World Cup
Runner-up 1974 West Germany
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Pleun Strik (27 May 1944 – 14 July 2022) was a Dutch professional footballer who played as a defender.[1]

Career

Strik played two matches for the Netherlands national team in the 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification tournament,[1] and he made the Dutch squad for the 1974 FIFA World Cup,[2] although he did not play in the tournament.[1]

Strik played club football with PSV Eindhoven for over eight years in the late 1960s and 1970s, and made a total of 28 appearances for them in UEFA club competitions. This included four games in the 1975–76 European Cup, although he did not play in the semi-final matches against Saint-Étienne.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Pleun Strik". World Football: Statistics. FIFA. Archived from the original on 6 July 2009. Retrieved 19 August 2012.
  2. ^ 1974 Netherlands World Cup Squad at Planet World Cup. Planetworldcup.com. Retrieved on 12 November 2013.
  3. ^ List of Strik's European club competition appearances at voetbalstats.nl (in Dutch)