Career
He played 184 matches for football club Ajax Amsterdam from 1959 to 1966 where he scored 60 goals. He played for the German football team 1. Football Club Kaiserslautern in the mid-sixties, being then one of the few foreign football professionals in Germany.
As an actor, Prins played Dutch football player and Allied Prisoner Of War Pieter Van Beck in the film Escape to Victory in 1981.
He died of a heart attack while playing in a match in 1987.