Eddy Treijtel

Eddy Treijtel
Personal information
Full name Eduard Willem Treijtel
Date of birth May 28, 1946 (1946-05-28) (age 65)
Place of birth Rotterdam, Netherlands
Playing position goalkeeper
Club information
Current club retired
Youth career
VV Schiebroek
Xerxes
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1964-1967 Xerxes 57 (0)
1967-1968 Xerxes/DHC 33 (0)
1968-1979 Feijenoord / Feyenoord 322 (0)
1979-1985 AZ'67 170 (0)
National team
1969-1976 Netherlands 5 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 7 June 2007.

† Appearances (Goals).

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 7 June 2007

Eduard ("Eddy") Willem Treijtel (born May 23, 1946 in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland) is a retired football goalkeeper from the Netherlands, who won the UEFA Cup with Feyenoord Rotterdam in the 1973-1974 season.

Treijtel obtained five caps for the Netherlands national football team. He came to Feyenoord in 1968, alongside Willem van Hanegem, and moved to AZ'67 in 1979. He retired in 1985.

The Rotterdam-born goalie is famous for shooting down a gull with a high ball, on November 15, 1970 during the derby between Sparta Rotterdam vs. Feyenoord Rotterdam.

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