From gritter

From gritter
FC Utrecht versus FC Twente, 1981
Personnel
Surname	Albert Jan Gritter
birthday	July 22, 1949
place of birth	Beilen ,  Netherlands
date of death	October 16, 2008
Place of death	Havelte ,  Netherlands
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1968-1972	Asser CV
1972-1975	FC Groningen	103 (38)
1975-1982	FC Twente Enschede	218 (65)
1982-1983	Kolding IF
1983-1986	Heracles Almelo
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
	Hjørring
	Åbenrå
1989–?	SC Heerenveen (Assistant Trainer)
	Dundee United
1992-1993	Heracles Almelo
1 Only league games are given.

Albert Jan "Ab" Gritter (born July 22, 1949 in Beilen ; † October 16, 2008 in Havelte ) was a Dutch football player and coach . As a result of a heart attack, Gritter died unexpectedly on October 16, 2008 at the age of 59.

Player career

society

Between 1968 and 1972 Gritter was in the squad of the Dutch amateur club Asser CV . One of his greatest successes with this club was his entry into the amateur cup final in 1971/72, which they lost to Black and White '28 Rotterdam . Professional clubs first noticed the striker through good performances and many goals. So it happened that Gritter signed with FC Groningen in May 1972 and made his debut in the Eredivisie on August 13, 1972 in the home game against PSV Eindhoven . Gritter immediately prevailed in his first season in 1972/73 and scored twelve goals in 33 games in his first year as a professional. He was the club's top scorer. In the following year Groningen played for relegation, but missed it and had to relegate to the Eerste Divisie . There Gritter was the top scorer in 1974/75. In the summer of 1975, the first division club FC Twente Enschede signed him when Johan Zuidema had to end his career for health reasons. In Enschede, Gritter met Jaap Bos , who came from Groningen last year, and remained loyal to the club as a left winger for seven years. In 1978 with fifteen and 1979 with fourteen goals, he was the best shooter on his team. In 1977 he reached the final of the KNVB Cup with the team . Twente beat PEC Zwolle 3-0 and qualified for the European Cup Winners' Cup for the coming season . There Enschede made it to the semi-finals, but was eliminated against the eventual winner RSC Anderlecht . With a total of six goals in the competition, Gritter was the top scorer in the competition, along with the German Ferdinand Keller and the Belgian François Van Der Elst . When Epi Drost left the club in 1980, Twente coach Hennie Hollink Gritter appointed the new team captain. In 1982 his former Danish teammate Michael Birkedahl and his advisor Ton van Dalen lured him to the Danish club Kolding IF . In November 1983 the Dutchman returned to his homeland and signed with the second division Heracles Almelo . In 1985 the club made promotion to the Eredivisie, where Gritter played for a year before ending his active career.

Success as a player

society

• KNVB Cup with FC Twente Enschede: 1977

Individually

• Eerste Divisie top scorer : 1975
• Top scorer in the European Cup Winners' Cup : 1978

Coaching career

After his active career, Gritter was active as a coach in Denmark from 1986. He looked after the clubs from Hjørring and Aabenraa in the third division. In the summer of 1989 he was committed to SC Heerenveen , where he worked under head coach Foppe de Haan . After differences of opinion, he left the club soon and was in the meantime for a year junior manager at the Scottish club Dundee United . In 1992, Gritter signed with his old club Heracles Almelo , where he worked until January 1993. The former winger later coached other lower-class teams.

useful information

• As a semi-professional, Gritter also worked as a part-time teacher in a school in the Ensched suburb of Boekelo during his time at Twente .

Web links

• Ab Gritter in the database of weltfussball.de
• From gritter in the database of transfermarkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Overled from Gritter . FC Twente Enschede . October 17, 2008. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
2. ↑ Oud-FC topscorer overled from Gritter . RTV Noord. October 17, 2008. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
3. ↑ Oud-prof en trainer Ab Gritter overleden ( Dutch ) tubantia.nl. October 16, 2008. Retrieved February 20, 2015.