Eddy de Neve

Eduard Karel Alexander de Neve ( born January 2, 1885 in Batavia ( now Jakarta ); † August 30, 1943 ) was a Dutch football player. De Neve was in the squad that football team that ran aground in Antwerp on 30 April 1905 the first international match in the history of Dutch football. Overall, he played 1905-1906 three matches, scoring six goals.

De Neve was born the son of Eduard Karel Alexander de Neve, a major in the Royal Dutch East Indian Army, and Johanna Christina Fokker in the colony of the Dutch East Indies. His father died when Eddy de Neve was ten years old.

After returning with his mother in the Netherlands, he started in the military sports club Velocitas Breda his short footballing career. From there he moved in 1905 to HBS Den Haag. In the very first season in The Hague him with the team succeeded in winning the Dutch Championship.

In the annals of Dutch football De Neve was a center forward as the first of the national team. For the first international game, the Royal Dutch Football Association ( KNVB ) had agreed, he was appointed team leader of Kees van Hasselt in the squad. On April 30, 1905, the Netherlands met in Antwerp in Belgium Beerschot Stadium on. 800 spectators at De Neve scored in the 80th minute to 0:1. After the balance was like six minutes later through an own goal from Ben Stom, the match went into extra time. Here De Neve was the hero of the game. He scored all three goals in a 4-1 draw. After the final whistle, the enthusiasm of the spectators knew about its performance no bounds and they carried him in his arms across the field.

Also the return match two weeks later, on 14 May 1905 in Rotterdam, De Neve was one of the driving forces of the game and contributed with his two goals decisively to the 4-0 victory in the Netherlands. His third and last international match played center forward on May 13, 1906 in the 2:3 defeat of the Netherlands against Belgium.

An injury- prone knee and was called up for military service in the Dutch East Indies ensured that De Neve ended his career as a footballer at the age of 22 years.

His military career was less glamorous. On July 27, 1909, he was appointed first lieutenant and adopted two months later honorably from the army. In the same year he lost his brother Gilles, as it is eaten in the West Sumba by cannibals.

During the following years De Neve worked at several Dutch companies or on plantations. In contrast to his team-mates from the national team, which reached most high positions, he barely managed it myself, professionally advance.

Only private it initially seemed fated luck. On 1 February 1913, he became engaged on board the steamship Vondel in the port of Genoa with Daisy Maud Green, a sister of the well-known British dancer Lilly Green. One and a half years later, on August 14, 1914, both married in Lubuk Sinapeng. Gilles junior, her only child, was born. After twelve years, but the marriage was on the rocks. Daisy Maud moved with their son to her mother to The Hague. Eddy de Neve remained in the Dutch East Indies.

On the occasion of the qualification of the national football team of the Dutch East Indies for the World Cup in France in 1938, he published in Bandung under the title Koning Voetbal (English: King Football ) memories of his success as a footballer and advice to the local football players.

1941 De Neve reached the news that his son had been in the service of the Royal Air Force in the crash of his Spitfire over Kent died. Two years later, on August 30, 1943 De Neve died at the age of 58 years in a Japanese camp.

• National football team (Netherlands)
• Born 1885
• Died in 1943
• Man