Wim Anderiesen


Willem Gerardus "Wim" Anderiesen was a Dutch footballer.

Club career

Born in Amsterdam, he played for Romein and 't Gooi before being admitted to Ajax, where he would play from 1925 to 1940, winning five national titles.

International career

He also earned 46 caps for the Netherlands national football team, and participated in the 1934 and 1938 World Cups.

Personal life

He was married to Trijntje Huizinga and had three children.
Aside from football, he was employed as typographer, police officer and doorman.
He died in 1944 from pneumonia. His son, Wim Anderiesen Jr., also played for Ajax in the 1950s and died in January 2017, aged 85.