Reports emerged today revealing that Edwin Van der Sar’s wife, Annemarie, suffered a stroke last week and is now seriously ill. Edwin has been at her bed side in Holland as they await test results.
Our goalie hasn’t played since November, ruled out with a knee injury, and has been excused from any further duty for United until more is known about his wife’s condition. The couple have two children, Joe and Lynn.
Depending on the results, fans may have to prepare themselves for Van der Sar’s retirement.
“Annemarie had a problem over in Holland a week ago and has been admitted to hospital,” Ferguson said today. “That is the best place for her to be. They have examined her twice and are trying to get to the root of it. I have told Edwin to stay over there. There is no point in him being here. The best thing is for him to be with his wife. Hopefully she will make a good recovery.”
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I hope she recovers and recovers fast… I pray for both them for smoother and faster recovery.. Get Well Soon… Poor EVDS definitely not the kind of Holiday season and New Year he would have wished for…
Seconded.
Get well soon Annemarie
Forget his retirement. His wife’s health is much more important. Edwin is still a great keeper but has won everything there is to be won and should consider spending more time with his wife if her health dosent improve quickly.
All United fans are praying for your wife’s health Edwin, sure she will get well soon
My prayers are with you and your family, Edwin
God be your wife Edwin. I hope and pray for your and family’s sake that she survives this ordeal and bounces back stronger than ever. You’ve done United a great service and we all respect and wish you nothing but the best.
God bless your family. Every true United fan in the world should remember your wife in their prayers. It is the least we can do to demonstrate our gratitude.
Show the world why United has the most faithful fans to the players, team, coach, club and ofcourse their families.
my prayers go out to your wife evds..hope she gets well soon..
Best wishes and our thoughts are with you and your family.
All the best to the pair….God grant her a speedy recovery.
I hope so very much that she recovers fully but fear that she will need a lot of rehabilitation and support. I will be very surprised to see Edwin return to play ever again as his family will always be more important than United.
That is how it should be as he has a young family and despite Shankley claiming otherwise, football is not, and never will be, more important than life or death.
He knows he has the wishes and support of millions of United fans worldwide and our prayers are with his wife and the battle ahead.
Good luck to them all.
puts silly litle things like football into perspective
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my taughts are with the van der sar family
Tragic news, thoughts and prayers are with Edwin and his family.
Really saddening news. I hope she recovers fully well. It must be awful for him and his wife to spend the remaining days of this year in a hospital.
@the big man
God Bless God Speed for the recovery – we are all thinking and praying for you – do whatever it takes
Thoughts are with Van Der Saar and his family hopefully his wife recovers sooner rather than later.
At this moment we must all reverse our order of priorities. Now it’s the wife, the kids, United, in that order. It is at moments like this that the word “united” takes a deeper meaning. God bless EVDS and his family.
May God grant her a full recovery.And thanks evds 4 ur service.
tragic event to happen to any family. all man utd fans, & i believe all football fans over the world will pray for Annemarie’s quick recovery. God bless Edwin & give strength to him & his family to last through this ordeal. We will wait for your return one day, no matter how long it takes.
Wishing Annemarie a full and speedy recovery. Also hope that the Almighty grants Edwin and his children the strength to cope during this trying period.
I am sure that every member of the United family will be praying for all of them.
A friend’s mother suffered from the same thing a couple of years back. Thankfully, she made a full recovery but it wasn’t easy. It could be a long road ahead, but if anyone can cope, VDS can. I hope for the best.
Edwin you are always our number 1 no matter what.
Praying for Annemarie’s full recovery, and know that all our thoughts and prayers go to the Van der Sar family.
Sorry VDS.how i wish there was a way we could help.of course we can only pray to almighty God for the quickest of your wife’s recovery.we offer you our support during this trying moment & we hope that you’ll emerge stronger from this.
get well soon annemarie. hang tough edd….
thoughts and prayers with you Edwin.
agree with RCWIS.
Its a times like this you remember that something’s really are more important than football…
…thoughts and prayers…
Prayin for a quick recovery and return to fine health and strength. Peace.
Let us all pray for speedy recovery of his wive. Hope VDS can cope with this tragic accident and i wish this new year will bring the happiness to your family.
God? ?
My taughts are with himself and his kids and my best wishes go to his goodlady wife , this tore my family to bits almost 2 years ago. To the point like today I can’t get out of bed. God? Footballers get paid alot and it pisses some off but we know that Annemarie will get the greatest care that can be given due to that fact. I cannot see van der sar in uniteds goal again and I understand it but this thing has nothing to do with me and weither I understand it or I don’t it means nothing. Edwin all my best
We are United with you Edwin.
The best wishes of all true supporters are with you.
Our love and best wishes to your wife, yourself and all your family.
All the best to VDS and his family
Get well soon Annemarie
terribly sad news, but hopefully there will be a happy ending for annamarie, edwin, their children, and all their family.
all our support, love, and prayers for a speedy recovery go out to edwin and the van der sar family.
wer al prayin 4 u all
Best wishes to Annemarie, Edwin & family. They’ll be in my thoughts and prayers.
I think the best option for edwin is to retire whether the results are either positive or negative
Best wishes to the van der sar family. You’ll find some real strength in the united family to help get you through this. Good luck and keep fighting
this year 2009 has been utter shit! so many ppl died, so mny ill, so many left disastrous.
even the other day, Sneha, one of the biggest fans of United I knew, had past away.
Get well soon. :’(
Wish EVDS’s Wife quick recovery so that they contineu staying peacefully with his family.
Let’s all through as much support and as many well-wishes to them as we possibly can…let’s show our support!!!
All our best to the VDS family…love and support!!
i hope she recovers very fast. my prayers are with u van der annemarie
Edwin, you’re a good man and you don’t need or deserve so much upset in your young life. All over the world members of the United ‘family’ are wishing you and your wife the best for her speedy recovery.
godpye
Best of wishes to the Van der Sar family. I hope Annemarie will make a full recovery.
She is suffering from an embolism in her brain, right? My father suffered from the same kind of illness. He never fully recovered and it could be a long journey ahead of Annemarie, this isn’t always easy to recover from. The brain is such a complicated organ.
My thoughts and prayers are with her and Edwin and his family. It sure isn’t easy seeing your loved ones seriously ill. I hope she makes a full recovery, Edwin should stay with her as long as needed, family is the most important thing in the world.
Famous words: “A man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man”.
Stay strong Edwin, we’re all rooting for her.
My prayers are with the Van der Sar family i hope for Annemarie’s speedy recovery. Whatever Edwin decides to do best of luck to him. I hope she gets better quickly and he comes back to us at full strength but no one would think any less of him if he hung it up to be with his family. He has been a huge part of our success as well as those great Ajax teams of the 90′s and I for one thank him for it.
Like so many others my thoughts and prayers are with Edwin and Annemarie at this terribly difficult time. I am so glad United have given Edwin as much time as he needs to be with his wife, thus upholding the best traditions of the club as ‘family’. I’ve always liked Edwin , not just as a great goalkeeper but also as a man, and also Annemarie, who has avoided the trashy excesses of being a WAG and always maintains a quiet dignity. I really do hope she makes a full recovery and there are early indications of a good outcome to relieve the current awful stress on the whole family. It would be nice if those supporters able to go to Old Trafford for the Wigan game can put up some sort of message for Edwin and Annemarie to show that we are with them in our prayers.
I hope Annemarie gets well soon and wish Edwin and the children all the best results. This could not happen to a nicer bloke than Edwin and Im sorry that it has. A true united legend.
Rick
Thoughts go out to Edwin and family.
One of my first ever footballing memories was Van Der Sar saving penalties against Sweden and his young son running onto the pitch in delight
Such a great keeper and man whose provided us with wonderful memories(Who will forget his save at Anfield? the save from Anelka? and just the general coolness and calmness he bought to our defense)…I am really expecting retirement, I hope it doesnt happen that Annmarie pulls through but he will need to care for her even if she does so…God be with Edwin
Easily one of the best keepers we have ever had
thoughts are with you and your family edwin
@Gudjohnsen:
Yeah, I think it’s probably embolism we are talking about. I am sorry to hear about your father and for everyone else who has gone through the same. As I said, a close friend had the same happen to his mother. The worst thing about it is that there isn’t much you can do to prepare for it. Hopefully Annemarie will make a full recovery. But it won’t be easy. She will need a lot of work and I am sure Edwin will be by her side through all this.
The more I think about this, the more it dawns on me that we have probably seen Edwin’s last match for United. I hope that’s not the case, but if it is, I am thakful for everything he has done for us and that the United-Van Der Sar chapter will remain open somehow.
Van der sar will remain a legend for us even if he does retire,if so his highlight of his courier will be the save in moscow
Wishing you and your family well Edwin.
The thing about Brain Hemmorhage is that complete recovery does take place in most of the cases, however the recovery is slow which will be the worrying part for VDS and United fans. And there should not be any complications in the mean time otherwise things can get worse.
Think VDS should take the season off and come back next season if possible. It will time for his wife to recover and he should be with her for the entire period.
@ aig
VDS said that he was thinking about retiring, yet why should he return next season…..I say sell Ben “The Hole” Foster, bring Neuer or Akinfeev and we can do some business..
shocking news!…I hope she makes a full recovery and VDS saves us in a penalty shoot out in May
so sad..
ArmaDino
I said if he wants to he can return. He is and will always be a top keeper.If he wises to continue he can always come back next season.If he wishes to retire then he can retire. Its his choice. I was just saying incase he wants to because he was mulling over whether to extend his deal or not before this tragic think happened and it was looking like he may continue for one more year.he looked very good when he came back this season.
My best wishes are with Edwin Van Der Sar and his family, I hope his wife makes a full and complete recovery.
Re : The keepers.
Not the best place to put it as it is a sad one but it IS relevant.
Out of all the three keepers they did a table thing on telly the other night for minutes played, goals conceded, clean sheets etc. Thomas K has the best record of the lot. Interesting.
If only we had bought Edwin ten years ago. A top top keeper.
As ghtt said, puts football in to perspective.
Let’s hope his wife gets better.
I think Edwin has been an unsung hero for United. You need players like this when you have so many glitz and glam players.
However, I think United need to start thinking long term.
Find out why Cesc Fabregas is statistically the most in form player
Looks like weve seen the last of edwin so
Thoughts are with you big man, I pray I never have to go through something as traumatic as having your loved one suffering with something so serious.
Come back when you’re ready or not at all, I keep thinking about Martin O’Neill when I hear this story and how he quit his Celtic job to nurse her.
The Binocular
what a fantastic post to advertise your website and some stupid fricking post on it about an arsenal player
why dont i post a video about emily singing a nice little ditty about steven hunt.
I cant get this news out of my head as i said earlier it puts football into perspective and 3 points tomorrow we often score 6 but we seldom score 10 game or another fulham away means nothing in the grand sceam of things.
I dont think i have kissed my daughters forehead since reading this news collectivly in the last year and i love my daughter more than air.
I feel so much for a giant in my eyes to be in such a vulnerable and helpless state but my best wishes go out to the man. my taughts go to his lady life
some things are beyond football.
thoughts with the family and wish you a speedy recovery.
my thoughts are with Edwin at this tough time
well.. on the long run it will mean that Kuszczak will get more playing time, and i think he is in need of that..
BillyMCFCDavey – Fair play mate.
Patrick – So do I. He is improving and getting more confident every game. Even his decision making has been good. I never thought he would be the one more likely to make it than Foster. Not being awful but I wouldn’t be too bothered if I never saw Ben in a United shirt again. Just don’t think he can handle United. He gives me the fucking willys every time he plays. Still having nightmares from Citeh at home.
sad news , hope his wife a speedy revovery!
I reckon it’s the last season for vds ,if so, then will remembered 4ever as a legend EDWIN
Hope she recovers well and the lads play their asses off for her tomorrow.
Hope Edwin’s wife makes a full and speedy recovery, from Will Liverpool fan. YNWA.
Best of wishes to the Van der Sar family.
I hope his wife will recover soon, above anything else.
thoughts and prayers with you and your family edwin..greatest keeper in the world imo
Our thoughts are with you,we pray for the speedy recovery of your wife.
my prayers and thoughts to VDS family, all the best and speedy recovery of our great hero’s wife
Boys did him proud out there today
Hoping your wife will be better soon. You are a humble and good man Edwin, and may God Bless you and your family.