Tonny van der Linden

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Tonny van der Linden (1957)

Anthonie "Ton" or "Tonny" van der Linden (born November 29, 1932 in Zuilen near Utrecht ; † June 23, 2017 in Vianen ) was a Dutch football player who won the Dutch championship with the Utrecht club DOS in 1958 and played 24 games for the Dutch national team scored 17 goals.

Club career

Van der Linden started at Voorwaarts at the age of twelve, at 17 the center forward switched to DOS (Door Oefening Sterk) , a predecessor club of today's FC Utrecht , with whom he played in the new Eredivisie from 1956 . In a total of twelve seasons in the honor division, he made 208 goals for DOS; the most important of them in the 1957/58 season: with 27 hits, he played a major role in the fact that DOS ended the season level on points with SC Enschede at the top of the table, so that a playoff for the championship was necessary. In the third extension of seven and a half minutes each, team captain Van der Linden made sure with his goal to make it 1-0 that old star Abe Lenstra was left behind with his Twenter Club - the most important goal in Utrecht football history. What happened after the golden goal , the weekly magazine Sport en Sportwereld described in its next issue: “At the same moment Van der Linden disappeared, buried among his teammates. A little later it reappeared, now on the shoulders of the many Utrecht supporters who had meanwhile taken possession of the lawn. ”For the first and only time in its history, the Utrecht club was Dutch champions. He also scored a goal in the two games against Sporting Lisbon in the 1958/59 European Cup ; in three other seasons he played in the trade fair cup , eleven times with DOS and in the 1962/63 season three more times with Stad Utrecht , a first syndicate of the clubs that later merged to form FC Utrecht; He has six goals from these games.

Van der Linden stayed in Utrecht despite receiving offers from Spain and Italy even though Ajax Amsterdam and the GVAV wanted him. Although he only earned 5,000 guilders in the championship season , including the championship bonus; although AC Florence offered him an annual salary of 100,000 guilders, plus prize money; although an agent from Valencia CF was standing at his door and wanted to take him away right away. Sometimes the reason was his association DOS, which insisted on contract fulfillment; sometimes the Dutch football association KNVB, which threatened him not to appoint him to the national team; he didn't go to Ajax because he didn't like the Amsterdam people. A club from Sheffield was also interested in him, he even flew to England for a negotiation, "but I don't remember whether it was Sheffield United or Sheffield Wednesday ," he said later. What he still knew was that he hadn't liked the industrial city between "smoking chimneys and gray residential areas where the sun never shines". The humble Tonny preferred to work on the side in his father's plumbing shop, although his fame certainly helped to increase sales.

All this modesty and adversity, the loyalty to the club - albeit often forced - were worthless to DOS. When Van der Linden, after seventeen years at DOS, took advantage of the expiry of his contract in 1967 to switch, he received a souvenir with a corresponding inscription from the unloved opponent for the farewell game against Ajax. He received an envelope from his own association chairman; when he opened it later, it was empty. Van der Linden moved to city rival USV Elinkwijk in the Eerste Divisie . At the lower class club he then earned more than at the top club that he had shot to the championship years earlier. When Elinkwijk merged with DOS and Velox three years later to form FC Utrecht, Van der Linden had already ended his career.

National team

Van der Linden's debut in Elftal went completely wrong. In the Santiago Bernabeu stadium he was allowed to go on January 30, 1957 in the 1: 5 against Spain for the first time alongside Faas Wilkes and Coen Moulijn for Oranje to hunt for goals. But only Tinus Bosselaar was able to counter the three goals by Alfredo Di Stéfano and two more by Kubala and Garay , which made it 1: 4. After the game, goalkeeper Frans de Munck blamed the debutant for the defeat; If the team had played with his club-mate Bram Appel from Fortuna '54 - who had scored twice in the two previous international matches - he said it would have turned out differently. Van der Linden did not forgive the goalkeeper for this, not even after de Munck moved to DOS that same year.

Van der Linden's best international match, in his own estimation, was the encounter in the Amsterdam Olympic Stadium against Bulgaria on April 3, 1960. With him, de Munck and the debutant Humphrey Mijnals from USV Elinkwijk, there were three Utrecht players in the team. Van der Linden scored three goals in this match against goalkeeper Nadenow , his second three-pack in a row after he had already placed the ball in the opposing box three times in the 7-1 win against Norway in November . “Countries like Bulgaria or Hungary suited me better than Belgium, for example, which I never looked good against. I didn't like their style of play, while it usually went well against tech-savvy opponents, ”he said looking back. (Quoted from)

His last appearance in the national team came on September 11, 1963 in the round of 16 of the EM 1964 . Against Luxembourg , Oranje reached only a 1-1 draw in Amsterdam and was eliminated in the return leg in Rotterdam (both games took place in the Netherlands) with a 1-2 defeat; Klaas Nuninga , who scored the 1-1 goal, then took over Van der Linden's position in the Dutch attack. The fact that there were no more than 24 games in the national team was due to the fact that he stayed at DOS for so long and did not move to a top club, says his former teammate Moulijn.

After the active time

Tonny van der Linden lived with his wife Anneke in a row house in Vianen and ran a tobacco shop in the Tuinwijk district of Utrecht.

Quotes

“ He used to be what van Nistelrooij is now: the best center forward in the Netherlands. "

- Herman van Veen on Tonny van der Linden

“ He actually wrote his entire biography with this goal. "

- Hans Kraaij , team-mate in the championship eleven

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DOS legend Tonny van der Linden (84) overleden. In: AD . June 23, 2017. Retrieved June 24, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c Ik zag zo gauw no vrij staan en schoot intuïtief ( Memento of 17 May 2009 at the Internet Archive ) site on the championship of DOS
  3. ↑ European Cup statistics at voetbalstats.nl
  4. ↑ "Ik weet niet eens sea of ​​het Sheffield United of Sheffield Wednesday was." Quoted from Johan Derksen, Tonny van der Linden, sieraad voor het voetbal ( Memento of November 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), biography at Voetbal International , viewed on July 1, 2008
  5. ↑ http://knvb.nl/oranje/programma/stats?match_id=222 (link not available)
  6. ↑ a b Johan Derksen, Tonny van der Linden, sieraad voor het voetbal ( Memento of November 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), biography at Voetbal International , viewed on July 1, 2008
  7. ↑ "Landen as Bulgarije en Hongarije lay me beter dan bijvoorbeeld België, tegen dat country heb ik niet vaak uitgeblonken. The spelstijl lay me niet terwijl het tegen technical vaardige tegenstanders meestal lekker went. "
  8. ↑ Pim van Esschoten, De voetballer die de zon kon laten schijnen , AD.nl of November 28, 2007, viewed on July 2, 2008
  9. ↑ in his weblog of March 13, 2006 ( memento of June 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), viewed on July 1, 2008
  10. ↑ about the “golden goal” in the 1958 decision game: “Hij schreef met die goal in wezen zijn biography.”, Quoted from: Pim van Esschoten, http://www.ad.nl/utrecht/sport/1859586/De_voetballer_die_de_zon_kon_laten_schijnen.html (Link not available)

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personal data
SURNAME Linden, Tonny van der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Linden, Anthonie van der (full name); Linden, Ton van der (short form)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Zuilen in Utrecht
DATE OF DEATH 23rd June 2017
Place of death Vianen