Pieter ("Piet") Wildschut (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈpitər (ˈpit) ˈʋɪltsxɵt]; born 25 October 1957 in Leeuwarden, Friesland) is a retired football defender from the Netherlands, who obtained 11 international caps for the Dutch national team.[1]
![]() Piet Wildschut in 1978 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Pieter Wildschut | ||
Date of birth | (1957-10-25) 25 October 1957 (age 65) | ||
Place of birth | Leeuwarden, Netherlands | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1974–1976 | FC Groningen | 39 | (6) |
1976–1978 | FC Twente | 64 | (8) |
1979–1985 | PSV Eindhoven | 180 | (9) |
1985–1986 | Royal Antwerp | 28 | (2) |
1986–1988 | Roda JC | 35 | (3) |
Total | 346 | (28) | |
National team | |||
1978–1982 | Netherlands | 11 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
After starting his career for FC Groningen, he represented his native country at the 1978 FIFA World Cup, where Holland finished runners-up, as a player of FC Twente. Later on Wildschut moved to PSV Eindhoven. He studied Mathematics at Eindhoven University of Technology. After his soccer career, Wildschut and his family moved to the United States where he runs a software company.
Netherlands squad – 1978 FIFA World Cup runners-up | ||
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