Wim Kieft

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Willem ("Wim") Cornelis Nicolaas Kieft (born 12 November 1962 in Amsterdam, Netherlands) is a retired Dutch footballer, who obtained 43 caps and eleven goals for the Netherlands national football team (1981-1993).

Kieft played for Ajax Amsterdam, PSV, Pisa and Girondins Bordeaux, and the Netherlands national football team. He came from a school of strikers who played in the De Meer Stadium of Amsterdam (Ajax). His contemporaries were Frank Rijkaard, John van 't Schip, Marco van Basten and Gerald Vanenburg: these youngsters made the 1980s a highly successful decade for the Netherlands, Ajax and PSV. He won Euro 88 in Germany, in which his contribution was the only goal in the game against the Republic of Ireland. Kieft also won the European Cup (later Champions League) with PSV that same year. He is now a football commentator for the television channels Sport1 and RTL.

His son Robbin Kieft plays for FC Groningen.

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• VoetbalFocus (in Dutch)

Preceded by Ruud Geels	Dutch Eredivisie Topscorer 1981-1982	Succeeded by Peter Houtman
Preceded by Marco van Basten	Dutch Eredivisie Topscorer 1987-1988	Succeeded by Romário

	Netherlands squad - 1990 FIFA World Cup
1 van Breukelen | 2 van Aerle | 3 Rijkaard | 4 R. Koeman | 5 van Tiggelen | 6 Wouters | 7 E. Koeman | 8 Vanenburg | 9 van Basten | 10 Gullit | 11 Witschge | 12 Kieft | 13 Rutjes | 14 van 't Schip | 15 Roy | 16 Hiele | 17 Gillhaus | 18 Fräser | 19 van Loen | 20 Winter | 21 Blind | 22 Menzo | Coach: Beenhakker