Eimert "Epi" Drost (21 September 1945 – 27 May 1995) was a Dutch
association football
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player and manager, best known for his time with
FC Twente
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.
Club career
Drost was born in
Amersfoort
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. A
sweeper, made his senior debut for
FC Wageningen on 23 September 1962 against
De Graafschap, then had a short spell with
Heracles Almelo
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, before joining manager
Kees Rijvers
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Pl ...
at
FC Twente
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where he would become one of the best players in the history of the club.
[Het levensverhaal van een kleurrijke lokale held]
- Voetbal International Known for his colourful lifestyle and fierce shot,
[Epi Drost 1945 - 1995]
- Trouw he played 423 league games for the club, only to be surpassed by
Sander Boschker in 2006. During his time at the club, Twente would finish second (behind
Feyenoord
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) in 1974 and third in 1969 in the
Eredivisie
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and would reach the
1975 UEFA Cup Final. His only trophy would be the
1977 KNVB Cup, he scored Twente's first goal in the final with a 30-yard piledriver.
[
He later played for ]DS '79
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, where he was joined by long-time Twente colleague Niels Overweg, before returning to Twente for a final season in which he was injured and could not save the club from relegation.
International career
Drost made his debut for the Netherlands
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in an April 1969 friendly match
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against Switzerland
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and earned a total of nine caps, scoring no goals. His final international was a September 1973 FIFA World Cup qualification
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match against Norway
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.
Managerial career
Drost coached RBC Roosendaal, DS '79
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and Hoofdklasse
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Background
The league was divided into two sections: Saturday and Sunda ...
club STEVO, with whom he won the Dutch Sunday-amateur football title in 1994.
Personal life and death
Drost was a son of former HVC and Wageningen player Selis Drost.[
Drost died in May 1995 of a heart attack during a game with Holland's former internationals players in ]Rotterdam
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. He was chosen Twente's player of the century by the club's supporters in 2000 and in 2009, a statue of ''Mister Twente'' Epi Drost was erected in FC Twente's stadium.Standbeeld voor Epi Drost
- NU
References
External links
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1945 births
1995 deaths
Footballers from Amersfoort
Men's association football central defenders
Dutch men's footballers
Netherlands men's international footballers
FC Wageningen players
Heracles Almelo players
FC Twente players
FC Dordrecht players
Dutch football managers
RBC Roosendaal managers
FC Dordrecht managers
Association football players who died while playing
Sport deaths in the Netherlands
20th-century Dutch sportsmen