Tonny van Ede

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van Ede (1962)

Antonie "Tonny" van Ede (born December 22, 1924 in Rotterdam , † February 16, 2011 in Zwijndrecht ; also Tonnie van Ede ) was a Dutch football player . From 1947 to the 1960s, the right winger was active in the top division with his home club Sparta Rotterdam and was with him in 1959 Dutch champions and two cup winners . He was also used twice in the national team.

Career

society

Tonny van Ede became a member of Sparta in 1935 at the age of ten. The Second World War initially prevented the young person from pursuing a career. He was abducted to Germany for forced labor, was able to escape and in Great Britain joined the Prinses Irene Brigade , a military brigade of Dutch people who had escaped German occupation . A year after the liberation, he returned to Rotterdam and from the following year played in the first team of Sparta, which had been promoted to the first class in 1946 . The round of points in 1948/49 ended Sparta as bottom of the table; only in a play-off in Zaandam at ZFC could the team get the class thanks to a goal from van Ede. Two years later Sparta won the important tournament for the Zilveren Bal ; In 1953 she was champion of the first class West, but had to admit defeat in the finals RC Haarlem and PSV Eindhoven . In 1956, the Rotterdam team reached the championship finals again.

Even after the introduction of professional football, the “lightning-fast winger” remained first class with Sparta. The team reached eighth place in 1957 and ninth place in 1958 in the new Eredivisie and won the KNVB Cup that year . In the 1958/59 season , coach Denis Neville's team with national players van Ede, Piet de Vries , Wim van der Gijp and Tinus Bosselaar became national champions for the first time since 1915; Team captain van Ede scored 19 times in 34 games of the season.

In the 1959/60 season van Ede appeared with Sparta in the European Cup . Thanks to a success in the play-off against IFK Gothenburg , the team around goalkeeper Fred Mühring , with van Ede on the right, Bosselaar on the left and Joop Daniëls (against Gothenburg) or Peter Fitzgerald (against Glasgow) as a center forward, reached the quarter-finals against the Glasgow Rangers . After a 2: 3 defeat at home, the goal brought a 1-0 win at Ibrox Park by Tonny van Ede, “Rotterdam's Stanley Matthews ”, Sparta again a playoff, which was lost in London. So far (as of April 2011) it was the last game of Rotterdam in the national championship cup. Again, as cup winners had the team of van Ede 1962/63 in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup already in the qualification after victory and defeat against Lausanne-Sports strike sail; the second leg at Sparta Stadion Het Kasteel was Van Edes' last international game.

Overall, Tonny van Ede was in 455 league games for Sparta on the field; there were more than 520 if you add cup and other competitive games. The number of his hits for Sparta is not exactly recorded. In the Eredivisie from 1956 to the 1963/64 season there were a total of 73 (according to other sources 71) goals in 227 games. In European cup competitions, he completed eight games and scored once. After the 1963/64 season, van Ede moved to the Schiedamer club Hermes DVS , for which he played in the third-rate Tweede Divisie for two more years .

National team

In the 1952/53 season, which Sparta ended with a point ahead of the reigning champions Willem II Tilburg , the selection committee of the KNVB appointed Tonny van Ede for the first time in the senior national team . On April 19, 1953 against Belgium , Max van Beurden and Wim Bleijenberg also made their debut on his first appearance as a substitute for the right winger Piet van der Kuil . It was the 200th international match for the Netherlands in which van Ede's Sparta team-mate Wim Landman in goal and Rinus Terlouw as center runner and veteran Abe Lenstra played , but lost 2-0 at the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam through goals from Henri Coppens and Augustin Janssens went. Also in van Edes second and last international match on September 27, 1953 in Oslo against Norway , in which four players made their debut, the Elftal lost ; this time with 0: 4.

Achievements and honors

  • Dutch champion: 1959
  • Dutch Cup Winner: 1958, 1962
  • Champion of the first class west: 1953, 1956
  • In 1963 Tonny van Ede became an honorary member of Sparta Rotterdam.
  • In August 2008 the book Sparta's Top en Tob 60 Aller Tijden was published on the occasion of the association 's 120th anniversary . In it van Ede was awarded the second place of the best Sparta football player in history (behind Bok de Korver ).
  • In 2010, on the occasion of van Ede's 75th membership in the club, the main stand of the Sparta Stadium Het Kasteel was renamed the Tonny van Ede-Tribune .
  • Van Ede's handprint is immortalized on a stone from the Rotterdam Walk of Fame Europe .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ First Class West, final tables at the RSSSF
  2. ↑ Championship history at the RSSSF
  3. ↑ Spartaan en oud-international Tonny van Ede overleden ( Memento from February 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Voetbal International from February 17, 2011, viewed on April 5, 2011
  4. ↑ Sparta krijgt Tonny van Ede Tribune , ElfVoetbal.nl of November 27, 2009
  5. ↑ a b Van Edes Eredivisie Statistics at Voetbal International
  6. ↑ Sparta's Top en Tob 60 Aller Tijden: No. 2 , Sparta Fanzine In the Winning Mood of March 31, 2008
  7. ↑ Hans Sonneveld, long-time teammate van Edes, in his book 50 Kasteeljaren , op.cit. at Hoogvliet on tour ( memento from August 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), viewed on April 7, 2011
  8. ↑ Topscoreers Eredivisie at voetbalfocus.nl
  9. ↑ Van Edes European Cup statistics at voetbalstats.nl
  10. ↑ Utrechts Nieuwsblad of August 1, 1964, p. 13, online facsimile viewed on April 7, 2011
  11. ↑ Van Edes international match statistics at voetbalstats.nl
  12. ↑ Presentatie book over Sparta ( Memento from September 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), sportgeschiedenis.nl from August 15, 2008
  13. ↑ Legendarische Spartaan Tonny van Ede overleden , AD Sportwereld of February 17, 2011, viewed on April 5, 2011
  14. ↑ Tonny van Ede blijft op Walk of Fame , Sparta Fanzine In the Winningmood of 11 December 2010 spotted 7 April 2011
personal data
SURNAME Ede, Tonny van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ede, Antonius van (real name); Ede, Tonnie van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotterdam
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 2011
Place of death Zwijndrecht