Tonny van Ede
Anthony " Tonny " van Ede ( born December 22, 1924 in Rotterdam, † February 16, 2011, Tonnie van Ede also ) was a Dutch football player. From 1947 to the 1960s, the Right Wing was active in his hometown club Sparta Rotterdam in the top division and was with him in 1959 Dutch Champion and Cup Winners' Cup twice. Twice he came in the national team for use.
Career
Association
Tonny van Ede was ten years Titch in 1935 a member of Sparta. The Second World War prevented initially a career of young people. He was deported to forced labor in Germany, managed to escape and joined in the UK, the Prinses Irene Brigade, a military brigade of the Dutch, who had escaped from German occupation. A year after the liberation, he returned to Rotterdam and played from the next year in the first team of Sparta, which in 1946 was moved up to the Eerste Klasse. The round robin 1948/49, ended Sparta as Table; only in a playoff in Zaandam in the ZFC the team was able to get the class thanks to a goal by van Ede. Two years later, Sparta won the important tournament for the Zilveren Bal; 1953 she became a master of the Eerste Klasse West, but had narrowly beaten in the final RC Haarlem and PSV Eindhoven. 1956 reached the Rotterdam again the final round of the championship.
Even after the introduction of professional football the " lightning quick winger " with Sparta remained top notch. The team reached the 1957 eighth, ninth place in 1958 to the new Eredivisie and won this year's KNVB Cup. In the season 1958/59 the team of coach Denis Neville with the national team van Ede, Piet de Vries, Wim van der Gijp and Tinus Bosselaar was for the first time since 1915 national champion; Team Captain van Ede met in 34 regular season games 19 times.
In the 1959/60 season van Ede joined with Sparta in the European Champions Cup. Thanks to a success in the playoff against IFK Gothenburg the team reached at goalkeeper Fred Mühring, with van Ede on the right side, Bosselaar left and Joop Daniëls ( against Gothenburg), Peter Fitzgerald ( against Glasgow ) as a center forward the quarter-final against Rangers. After a 2:3 defeat in home game of the hit brought a 1-0 victory at Ibrox Park by Tonny van Ede, " Rotterdam Stanley Matthews ," Sparta again a play which, however, in London was lost. It remained to date (April 2011) the last game of the Rotterdam in the national champion trophy. Again, as cup winners team van Ede 1962/63 had in the European Cup Winners bow out already in the qualification after victory and defeat against Lausanne Sports; the return match in Het Kasteel Sparta Stadium was the last international match van Ede.
Overall, Tonny van Ede was in 455 league games for Sparta in the square; more than 520 were it expects to add Cup duty and other games. The number of his matches for Sparta is not exactly preserved. In the Eredivisie, it was from 1956 until the season 1963/64, a total of 73 ( 71 according to other sources ) goals in 227 games. In European cup competitions, he completed eight games and hit it again. After the 1963/64 season van Ede moved to Schiedam club Hermes DVS, for whom he played for two years in the third-class Tweede Divisie.
National
In the season 1952/53, which Sparta with a dot finished ahead of the reigning champions Willem II Tilburg, the selection committee of the KNVB Tonny van Ede convened for the first time in the squad of the national team. In his first outing as a substitute for regular right winger Piet van der Kuil on April 19, 1953 against Belgium debuted except him Max van Beurden and Wim Bleijenberg. It was the 200th international match of the Netherlands, in the aufliefen also van Ede Sparta teammate Wim Landman goal and Rinus Terlouw as a center half and veteran Abe Lenstra, but the lost in the Olympic Stadium Amsterdam goals from Henri Coppens and Augustin Janssens 0-2 went. Also in van Ede's second and last international match on 27 September 1953 in Oslo against Norway, where again four players made their debuts, lost Elftal; this time with 0:4.
Achievements and honors
- Dutch master: 1959
- Dutch Cup winner: 1958, 1962
- Master of the Eerste Klasse West: 1953, 1956
- In 1963 was Tonny van Ede honorary member of Sparta Rotterdam.
- In August 2008, on the occasion of the 120 anniversary of the association, the book Sparta 's Top 60 Aller en Tob appeared Tijden. It was awarded ( Bok de Korver behind ) van Ede, the second place the best Sparta football player in history.
- In 2010, the grandstand of the Sparta Stadium Het Kasteel was renamed Tonny van Ede - Tribune occasion van Ede's 75 -year-old club affiliation.
- Van Ede's handprint immortalized on a stone of the Rotterdam Walk of Fame Europe.