Jesse Edge
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Jesse Marshall Thompson Edge | ||
| Date of birth | 26 February 1995 | ||
| Place of birth | Tauranga, New Zealand | ||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | IFK Berga | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2011 | Melville United | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2011–2013 | WaiBOP United | 19 | (0) |
| 2013–2014 | Ole FA | ||
| 2014–2015 | Vicenza Calcio | 0 | (0) |
| 2015–2016 | Auckland City | 10 | (0) |
| 2016–2017 | Písek | 15 | (0) |
| 2017–2018 | Achilles '29 | 29 | (0) |
| 2018–2019 | Železiarne Podbrezová | 6 | (0) |
| 2019 | → Lokomotíva Košice (loan) | 9 | (1) |
| 2019 | → Petržalka (loan) | 1 | (0) |
| 2019–2020 | DFS | ? | (2) |
| 2020– | IFK Berga | 2 | (1) |
| International career | |||
| 2011 | New Zealand U-17 | 4 | (0) |
| 2013–2015 | New Zealand U-20 | 10 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 07:13, 23 August 2020 (UTC) | |||
Jesse Marshall Thompson Edge (born 26 February 1995) is an amateur New Zealand football player who plays in the Swedish amateur Division 1 Norra for IFK Berga. Besides New Zealand, he has played in Sweden, the Netherlands, Slovakia, and Italy mainly as an amateur.[1][2][3][4]
Club career
[edit]He made his professional debut in the Eerste Divisie for Achilles '29 on 20 January 2017 in a game against NAC Breda.[5]
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 300 euros per month 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.[6]
In August 2020, he then joined Swedish amateur club IFK Berga in Division 1 Norra [7]
In January 2022, he then joined Swedish amateur club Lunds BK in Division 1 Sodra before moving to IFK Malmo in August until the end of the 2022 season as coach of their under 12 women's team.
Honours
[edit]Club
[edit]- Waikato FC
- Auckland City
- OFC Champions League champion: 2016.
- New Zealand Football Championship runner-up: 2015–16.
International
[edit]- New Zealand national under-20 football team
- OFC U-20 Championship champion: 2013.
Personal
[edit]Jesse is a nephew of former New Zealand international Declan Edge.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Jesse Edge: The New Zealander Living The Dream In Europe". worldfootballindex.com. 26 June 2019.
- ^ "Slovakia next stop on Jesse Edge's football odyssey". stuff.co.nz.
- ^ "Teen's pro dream comes true in Italy". nzherald.co.nz.
- ^ "The Edge project". nzherald.co.nz. 15 October 2014.
- ^ "Game Report by Soccerway". Soccerway. 20 January 2017.
- ^ DFS versterkt zich met Nieuw-Zeelander Jesse Edge: ‘Een absolute knokker’, gelderlander.nl, 29 August 2019
- ^ "New Zealand duo sign for Swedish club". 6 August 2020.
- ^ "Kiwi teen Thomas signs with top Dutch club". stuff.co.nz. 5 September 2013. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
External links
[edit]- Jesse Edge at WorldFootball.net
- Jesse Edge at Soccerway
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- Sportspeople from Tauranga
- Living people
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- 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
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