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
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
Club
- Waikato FC
- Auckland City
- OFC Champions League champion: 2016.
- New Zealand Football Championship runner-up: 2015–16.
International
- New Zealand national under-20 football team
- OFC U-20 Championship champion: 2013.
Personal
Jesse is a nephew of former New Zealand international Declan Edge.
Declan Edge.[8]
References
- ^ "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
- Jesse Edge at WorldFootball.net
- Jesse Edge at Soccerway