Arend van der Wel

Arend van der Wel (1951)

Arend van der Wel (born March 28, 1933 in Amsterdam , † September 16, 2013 in Denekamp ) was a Dutch football player .

Athletic career

Van der Wel, who came from the youth of De Volewijckers and whose father played for Blauw Wit Amsterdam and later worked as a coach, switched to Ajax Amsterdam as a youth player and was promoted to the club's competition team in 1950. Five years later he moved to the Enschede sports club , which under Hennie Möring wanted to switch to professional football as soon as possible and had signed players like Abe Lenstra , Joop Odenthal and Gerrit Voges . Until 1964 van der Wel played 220 competitive games for the club, which was a founding member of the Eredivisie in 1956 . In 1958 he was runner-up with the club when the championship was determined in a - with 0: 1 lost - play off because of the tie with DOS Utrecht .

After a year at SC Cambuur , he played two seasons from 1965 at HVV Tubantia and then at DOS '19 . There he moved to the coaching bench after retiring in 1969. He later returned to his former club, which has now been renamed Twente Enschede , and worked in particular as a coach for the second team.

For his achievements van der Wel received the Order of Orange-Nassau with the rank of knight.

In the last years of his life, van der Wel suffered from Parkinson's disease . He died on September 15, 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Arend van der Wel (80) plotseling overleden twentesport.com, accessed on December 17, 2015 (Dutch)
2. ↑ Erelid Arend van der Wel op tachtigjarige leeftijd overleden ( Memento of the original dated December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. twentefans.nl, accessed December 17, 2015 (Dutch)