Pleun Strik

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. "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)