Cornelis "Kees" Alidanis Pijl (9 June 1897 – 3 September 1976) was a Dutch

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who was active as a striker. Pijl played his whole career at

Feyenoord Feyenoord Rotterdam () is a Netherlands, Dutch professional association football, football club based in Rotterdam, which plays in the Eredivisie, the top tier in Dutch football league system, Dutch football. Founded as Wilhelmina in 1908, the ...

and won eight caps for the

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, scoring seven times, of which four against

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at the

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. After his career he managed Feyenoord from 1942 to 1946,

Honours

* 1923-24 :

Eredivisie The Eredivisie (; "Honour Division" or "Premier Division") is a professional association football league in the Netherlands and the highest level of the Dutch football league system. The league was founded in 1956, two years after the start o ...

winner with Feyenoord * 1927-28 :

winner with Feyenoord * 1929-30 :

KNVB Cup The KNVB Beker (; ), branded as the TOTO KNVB Beker for sponsorship reasons, is a competition in the Netherlands organised by the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) since 1898. It was based on the format of the English FA Cup. Outside the N ...

winner with Feyenoord

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1897 births 1976 deaths Dutch men's footballers Netherlands men's international footballers Dutch football managers Feyenoord players Feyenoord managers Men's association football forwards Sportspeople from Oosterhout Olympic footballers for the Netherlands Footballers at the 1924 Summer Olympics Footballers from North Brabant 20th-century Dutch sportsmen {{netherlands-footy-forward-stub