Epi Drost

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Epi Drost
Epi Drost (1977) .jpg
Epi Drost (right)
Personnel
Surname Bucket of Drost
birthday September 21, 1945
place of birth Amersfoort ,  Netherlands
date of death May 27, 1995
Place of death Rotterdam ,  Netherlands
size 173 cm
position Central midfield / Libero
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1962-1965 FC Wageningen 78 (41)
1965-1966 Heracles Almelo 19 0(0)
1966-1980 FC Twente Enschede 397 (10)
1980-1981 DS'79 Dordrecht 52 0(0)
1982-1983 FC Twente Enschede 8 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1969-1973 Netherlands 9 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1982-1987 FC Twente Enschede (Assistant)
1987-1988 DS'79 Dordrecht
1988-1989 RBC Roosendaal
1 Only league games are given.

Eimert , called "Epi" or "Epy" Drost (born September 21, 1945 in Amersfoort , † May 27, 1995 in Rotterdam ) was a Dutch football player and coach . He played for 14 years with FC Twente in the Eredivisie and won the Dutch Cup in 1977 with the Enschedern . From 1969 to 1973 he came to nine missions in the Dutch national team .

biography

Epi's father Selis Drost was also a soccer player, active at HVC Amersfoort and WVV Wageningen . The native Amersfoorter therefore moved to Wageningen with his parents at an early age . Like his father, who worked as a timber merchant, he learned the trade of carpenter.

In the club

In Wageningen, Drost, like his father, played at WVV, where he made his first-team debut in a game against De Graafschap in 1962, two days after his seventeenth birthday . He came to FC Twente in Enschede via SC Heracles in 1966 , where he was to stay until 1980. Twente paid a transfer fee of 40,000 guilders for him - and added the player Hans Roordink . Twente's coach Kees Rijvers turned the all-rounder into a libero in Enschede , the last man in front of goalkeeper Piet Schrijvers . During this time Drost became a crowd favorite and a leading figure of FC Twente. “Of course, Epi wasn't just a fantastic footballer,” says his biography on the club's club hero website, “he was much more than that. As the last man he was the driving force of the team, always taking the eleven in tow, and therefore the perfect leader of the team. ”The downside was that he didn't always obey the rules. In 1969, when Twente was at the training camp in southern Germany in February, he was one of four players who snuck out of the camp to celebrate Carnival.

While his three "fellow carnivalists" had to leave at the end of the season, Drost became one of the guarantors of the Twente successes of the 1970s - which is not least thanks to Sparta Rotterdam , because the club withdrew from the purchase of Drost, who was also to leave Twente. back. In 1974, his team was runner-up after they had to bow in a direct duel Feyenoord on the last day of the game . In the UEFA Cup the following year he was with Eddy Achterberg and Frans Thijssen , with Arnold Mühren , Cees van Ierssel and Volkmar Groß in the team that knocked out Juventus Turin in the semifinals and only failed in the final against Borussia Mönchengladbach . In the same year the team lost the cup final against FC Den Haag . Two years later he finally got a title: on Ascension Day 1977 he played with Twente in Nijmegen in the KNVB Cup final. After 90 minutes it was 0-0 against PEC Zwolle ; With a long-range shot from more than 30 meters, Drost put his team in the lead in extra time. Twente won 3-0 in the end, and team captain Drost was then able to receive the first trophy for his club.

In 1980 he moved to Dordrecht to join DS'79 after losing his regular place to the younger Ab Gritter . At DS'79 he let his active career end in June 1981. At least temporarily, because once again, in the 1982/83 season as assistant coach in Enschede, he tied his football boots - Twenter through and through - to help the club in the relegation battle when the team was followed by bad luck with injuries in the second half of the season. But in vain; he couldn't prevent the Enscheder from having to go to the second division for the first and so far only time .

In total, Drost has played 423 times in the Eredivisie , 43 times in the Dutch Cup and 45 times in European competitions for Twente .

In the national team

His debut in the Dutch Elftal was Drost under bond coach Georg Keßler on April 16, 1969 in De Kuip against Czechoslovakia . In qualifying for the European Championship in 1972 he was used three times, including the 1-0 defeat against the GDR in Dresden's Rudolf Harbig Stadium on November 11, 1970. However, he fell out with coach František Fadrhonc - who was his idiosyncratic, risk-taker Spiel did not appreciate - after he was the only one from the entire squad who did not let him play in a friendly match. "The Epi is always a circus," Fadrhonc dismissed him. From mid-1971, Drost was left on the sidelines for some time; it was not until September 12, 1973 that he returned to the first team in the 2-1 win in Oslo against Norway in World Cup qualification . However, this should also be his last game in Orange , as he then suffered a serious injury and thus also missed the 1974 World Cup in Germany.

Coaching career

In 1982 he returned to Enschede to become Spitz Kohn's assistant coach at FC Twente . He also remained assistant coach under coach Fritz Korbach before he took up his first head coach position at his old club DS'79 in 1987. A year later he joined RBC Roosendaal in his new role . He then moved to the third class Hoofdklasse ( main class ), the top amateur league at the time, to RKVV Stevo from Geesteren . Here he built up a team with which he won the 1994 national championship of "Sunday amateurs" - the hoofd class is divided into two sections, the Saturday and Sunday amateurs; the respective champions play off the Dutch amateur champions - won, but lost in the final against VV Katwijk.

The private citizen

In Bert Nederlof's biography , Drost is portrayed as a losbol , as a “relaxed bird”: “a notorious cheater” - his ex-wife, Margreeth Buiskool, says he had girlfriends from the first day of his marriage - “a man, who couldn't handle money, had fear of commitment and failed hopelessly as a businessman. "Since he lived in Enschede, during and after his active days, he drove his Porsche , Camaro or Beretta to an Enschede cafeteria every day , where he sat around, Ate meatballs and played cards with the landlord - even on the day of his death.

Death on the football field

On May 27, 1995, Epi Drost, who had a heart operation in 1991 and since then had a total of four bypasses , played with a team of old international players against the amateur club Transvalia from the south of Rotterdam, which celebrated its 90th anniversary. He was the only one of the alumni to do warm-up exercises. He scored a goal during the game and collapsed shortly afterwards in cardiac arrest. Wim Meutstege tore his jersey off; Meutstege and other teammates as well as a club doctor tried to reanimate him, but Drost died just a few hours later in a Rotterdam hospital. His torn jersey from that last game will be given a place of honor in the Dutch Football Museum in Middelburg , which opens in December 2009.

Honors

In 2000, the fans of FC Twente - who named him because of a resemblance to Manolito Montoya played by Henry Darrow from the television series High Chaparral "Manolito" , which was popular in the early 1970s - voted him "Footballer of the Century". In 2005 he came in second place behind the inventor of an artificial kidney , Willem Kolff, in an election for the largest Overijsseler .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paragraph Der Privatmann after: Johan Derksen, Het levensverhaal van een kleurrijke local held ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Voetbal international from September 24, 2007.
  2. ↑ a b Een ereplek voor Mister FC Twente ( Memento from September 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Voetbal International from July 13, 2009.
  3. ↑ Eerste beelden van Voetbalmuseum Middelburg ( Memento from February 22, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), sportgeschiedenis.nl from September 28, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Drost, Epi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Drost, Epy; Drost, Eimert (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Amersfoort , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1995
Place of death Rotterdam , Netherlands