1. Cees Groot was a Dutch footballer who played as a striker for Heerenveen, Stormvogels, Ajax, Zaanstreek and the Pittsburgh Phantoms during his career.
10 Facts About Cees Groot
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Cees Groot would go on to play one season for the Friesian club, before transferring once more, this time around to IJ.
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Cees Groot was a physically strong striker, and was very good in the air, but had very little finesse and technical ability.
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Together the Cees Groot brothers were responsible for more than half of the club's goals scored, and finished the season in first and third place of the league's top scorers.
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Cees Groot finished as the club's top scorer for three consecutive seasons, and scored more than 100 goals for Ajax.
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Cees Groot is ranked 11th place on the club's all-time top scorer list.
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In 1964, Cees Groot left Ajax, for the newly formed FC Zaanstreek.
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Cees Groot would go on to play a total of three seasons for the side from Zaanstad, before following his former Ajax teammate Co Prins to play in the United States.
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Cees Groot taught sports at a halfway house near the Leidseplein in Amsterdam, amongst other places.
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Cees Groot died of cardiac arrest in 1988 during a winter vacation trip to the Sauerland in West Germany.