Sjaak Swart

Loyalty is rare in modern football, which is why Sjaak Swart fascinates me. Six hundred and three official matches for Ajax, a club record, is not just a statistic, it is a love story between a player and one shirt. He played the wing during the golden age of Dutch football, the kind of grafting flank work that rarely gets the spotlight but wins matches. Born in 1938 and still with us, he feels like a living thread back to a romantic era of the game. I have huge respect for one-club devotion, and Swart is its quiet patron saint.

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Name (English)

Sjaak Swart

Name (Japanese)

シャーク・スワルト

Reading

しゃーく・すわると

Born

July 3, 1938 (age 88)

Origin

Muiderberg, North Holland, Netherlands

Height

174 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Tiger

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sjaak%20Swart
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%AF%E3%83%AB%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1334013

Tags

• North Holland
• association football player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.