Sjaak Swart

During his career at Ajax, he amassed a total of almost 600 matches, a record for the club.

Sjaak Swart

Swart in 2011
Personal information
Full name	Jesaia Swart
Date of birth	(1938-07-03) 3 July 1938 (age 85)
Place of birth	Muiderberg, Netherlands
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Winger
Youth career
	OVVO
	Amsterdam
	Ajax
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1956–1973	Ajax	461	(170)
International career
1960–1972	Netherlands	31	(10)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Swart is Jewish and was born in Muiderberg, a fishing village about 20 kilometers east of Amsterdam. His Jewish fisherman father sold herring at the market. As a child, he and his father concealed themselves as non-Jews during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands from 1940 to 1945, hiding from Germans and Dutch colluders, who rounded up any Jews; nearly 75 per cent of the Dutch Jewish population was killed in those years.

Nicknamed Mr. Ajax, he played for Ajax a total of almost 600 matches, a record for the club, starting in 1956. He was part of their European Cup victories in 1971, 1972, 1973.

For the Netherlands national team, Swart earned 31 caps, scoring ten goals.

Ajax

• Eredivisie (7): 1959–60, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1969–70, 1971–72, 1972–73
• KNVB Cup: 1960–61, 1966–67, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1971–72
• European Cup: 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73
• Intertoto Cup: 1962
• European Supercup: 1972, 1973
• Intercontinental Cup: 1972

• List of Jewish footballers
• List of select Jewish association football players