Wouter Eiting (43) from Borger died last Saturday, after he had become unwell in the Euroborg in the presence of his father Jan and hundreds of fellow supporters prior to the competition in FC Groningen-SC Heerenveen. “Wouter was a real green-white,” says John de Jonge, chairman of the Supporters Association (SVG) of FC Groningen.
On Saturday they drove back to Groningen. They had visited another museum along the way, ate a snack together in Groningen and then went to the Euroborg for the Derby FC Groningen – SC Heerenveen.
“Normally he always goes to football with a comrade,” says Harjo van der Valle, one of his friends. “But because of that father-son outing, he went with his father this time. He said: it was really nice and it was very cozy. But on his way from the supporters home to his place, at the very top of the stadium, went The last bit up was fatal. “
Once upstairs, Wouter was not tasty. “Well Wouter was someone who, if he had to go up the stairs, soon was out of breath. But now he immediately felt that it was really wrong.” You have to get help, it’s not going well, “he told his father. “
In retrospect, Wouter had had some stuffy complaints all week. Harjo: “On Tuesday night he had even woken up a few times as a result of stuffiness, his wife Monique said. But he did that like a flu. On Thursday he was still home, but on Friday he felt good enough again with z again a father to go to Den Helder. “
Harjo received a phone on Saturday evening. “It was wrong with Wouter, we were told. So with a few friends we immediately drove to Groningen. We didn’t even know where exactly. Just to Groningen. When we arrived at the UMCG we were taken care of by the neighbor.” They can’t do anything anymore, “he said immediately,” they stopped treatment “… bizarre, really terrible.”
Since Saturday evening, the family and friends have experienced the death of Wouter as in a intoxication. The statements of support and reactions from people they receive are heartwarming.
Harjo: “From the village, from SV Borger, but certainly also from FC Groningen supporters. It is incredible what we all receive for messages, from people we don’t know at all …”
It all has to do with the person Wouter Eiting, says Harjo. “Wouter was a huge social person, who really only had friends. I don’t know anyone who was more social than him.”
At SV Borger, Eiting was really ‘a man from the club who entered his soul and bliss there’. The canteen of the club is about to be demolished. “This Saturday, a party would be given for the last time, as a farewell. Wouter had, of course, offered himself to stand behind the bar again.”
In addition to Borger-Clubman in Hart en Kidden, Eiting was crazy about FC Groningen. “He was a real green-white,” says De Jonge. And Harjo: “As long as I know him, he already went to the FC.”
Wouter Eiting was married to Monique for six years, whom he had eleven years old. “They had a home in Borger and had everything nice for each other. In the back of the garden he had built his own Irish pub. If the coffin fits through the door, we would like to lay Wouter in his own pub, so that people Being able to say goodbye to him there on Thursday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. “
The funeral will take place next Saturday in Borger. “In the Grote Kerk, although it will not be a church service, because we arrange everything ourselves,” says Harjo. “The entire village will end, just like everyone else involved in SV Borger, people from other associations, people from his work, from FC Groningen.”
It will really be a crazy house on Saturday, Harjo thinks. “It will be, with people with torches on the route from the church to the cemetery, you name it. That is exactly what he would like to have wanted, I know that for sure. Wouter would have loved that totally.”