André de Kruijff

Andries Johannes de Kruijff, known as André de Kruijff, was a Dutch footballer, born on 9 April 1895 and died on 29 November 1964. He played as a midfielder and spent the greater part of his club career with AFC Ajax of Amsterdam, where the club's own archive places him from the 1914-15 season until 1926-27, usually on the left side of midfield beside Joop Pelser and Henk Hordijk. During those years Ajax went up to the first division a second time and won its first domestic championship, and De Kruijff was part of that side. He also won a single cap for the Netherlands national football team, playing in one match in 1921. His record is a modest one by the standards of the international game, but it is typical of the amateur-era players who built the early Dutch national side and the great Amsterdam club.