Jesse Marshall Thompson Edge (born 26 February 1995) is an amateur

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player who plays in the Swedish amateur

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for IFK Berga. Besides New Zealand, he has played in Sweden, the Netherlands, Slovakia, and Italy mainly as an amateur.

Club career

He made his professional debut in the

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for

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on 20 January 2017 in a game against

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. He then moved in 2018 to the professional club Zeleziarne Podbrezova in the Slovakian Fortuna Liga. Edge left Slovakia in August 2019 after he didn't receive his salary. He then returned to the Netherlands and went on a trial with DFS, before signing with the club at the end of the month. In August 2020, he then joined Swedish amateur club IFK Berga in

In January 2022, he then joined Swedish professional club Lunds BK in Division 1 Sodra before moving to IFK Malmo in August until the end of the 2022 season.

Honours

Club

;Waikato FC * NBF Cup runner-up: 2011–12. ;Auckland City * OFC Champions League champion:

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runner-up: 2015–16.

International

;New Zealand national under-20 football team * OFC U-20 Championship champion:

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Personal

Jesse is a nephew of former New Zealand international Declan Edge.

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* * 1995 births Sportspeople from Tauranga Living people New Zealand expatriate men's association footballers New Zealand men's association footballers WaiBOP United players Auckland City FC players Achilles '29 players FK Železiarne Podbrezová players FC Lokomotíva Košice players LR Vicenza players FC Petržalka players New Zealand Football Championship players Eerste Divisie players Tweede Divisie players Slovak First Football League players 2. Liga (Slovakia) players New Zealand men's youth international footballers New Zealand men's under-20 international footballers Men's association football defenders Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Expatriate men's footballers in the Czech Republic Expatriate men's footballers in Slovakia Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in Italy New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in the Czech Republic New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in Slovakia New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands {{NewZealand-footy-bio-stub