Piet Huyg (19 March 1951 – 6 December 2019) was a Dutch

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who played as a defender. He played 349 games with

HFC Haarlem HFC Haarlem was a Dutch football club from the city of Haarlem, established in 1889 and dissolved in 2010. The club won the Eredivisie in 1946 and reached five Cup finals, winning in 1902 and 1912. Haarlem reached the second round of the 1982� ...

, mostly in the Dutch

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. Haarlem qualified for the

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and Huyg scored the team’s only goal in the second round match against

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. In 1976, Huyg opened a sporting goods store in Haarlem which he operated until turning it over to his daughter. Huyg died on 6 December 2019 at the age of 68. He had been suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease.

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* 1951 births 2019 deaths Dutch men's footballers Men's association football defenders HFC Haarlem players Eredivisie players Eerste Divisie players Footballers from Velsen 20th-century Dutch sportsmen {{Netherlands-footy-defender-stub