Eddie Edgar is an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 former professional football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 goalkeeper.

Career

Edgar was born in Jarrow

Jarrow

Jarrow is a town in Tyne and Wear, England, located on the River Tyne, with a population of 27,526. From the middle of the 19th century until 1935, Jarrow was a centre for shipbuilding, and was the starting point of the Jarrow March against unemployment in 1936.-Foundation:The Angles re-occupied...

 and most notably played professionally for Newcastle United

Newcastle United F.C.

Newcastle United Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear. The club was founded in 1892 by the merger of Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End, and has played at its current home ground, St James' Park, since the merger...

, although he made only one appearance for the club in a 4-2 FA Cup

FA Cup

The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout cup competition in English football and is the oldest association football competition in the world. The "FA Cup" is run by and named after The Football Association and usually refers to the English men's...

 quarter-final defeat to Derby County

Derby County F.C.

Derby County Football Club is an English football based in Derby. the club play in the Football League Championship and is notable as being one of the twelve founder members of the Football League in 1888 and is, therefore, one of only ten clubs to have competed in every season of the English...

 in 1976. He also played for Hartlepool United

Hartlepool United F.C.

Hartlepool United Football Club is an English professional football club based in Hartlepool that currently play in League One. The team won promotion to League One in the 2006–07 season...

 before moving to North America

North America

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 where he continued to play professionally. He now resides in Kitchener, Ontario

Kitchener, Ontario

The City of Kitchener is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada. It was the Town of Berlin from 1854 until 1912 and the City of Berlin from 1912 until 1916. The city had a population of 204,668 in the Canada 2006 Census...

.

Personal life

He now is a businessman and lives outside the UK with his wife, and was last publicly seen on Tyneside at the Newcastle United home game versus Manchester United on January 1, 2007, watching his son, David Edgar make his home debut, and ironically score, gaining much love from the Geordie public.

Eddie Edgar still has family roots on the Tyne, namely his father, known only as Mr Edgar, whom lives contently in Jarrow, also a very close relative to the Geordie Goalkeeper is major businessman Ged Edgar owner of Atlantic antics soft play, Jarrow.

His son David

David Edgar (footballer)

David Edward Edgar is a Canadian football player who currently plays for Championship side Burnley. He can play as a centre back, right back, left back or defensive midfielder.-Early life:Edgar was born to Eddie Edgar and Christine Edgar...

 is a footballer who plays professionally as a central defender for English Championship side Burnley.

University of Waterloo

Edgar coached the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, ON and laid the seeds for a program that would eventually reach its first national championship tournament (a year after Edgar left the team).

London City

Edgar was signed as the manager of London City

London City (soccer club)

London City is a Canadian soccer team founded in 1973. The team is currently a member of the Canadian Soccer League. The team plays home games out of Cove Road Stadium in the city of London, Ontario...

 of the Canadian Soccer League

Canadian Soccer League (current)

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 to replace cancer fighting Harry Gauss

Harry Gauss

Harry Paul Gauss was a German-Canadian football coach.-Early life:The Gauss family, with father Markus and mother Magdalene migrated with him and brother Reinhart from Stuttgart to Canada in 1958, Gauss was raised in Ontario following a short stay in Montreal and Winnipeg...

, but was sacked on June 6, 2008 after a string of poor performances.