Evald Tipner
Personal information
Full name Evald Tipner
Date of birth (1906-03-13)13 March 1906
Place of birth Tallinn, Governorate of Estonia, then Russian Empire
Date of death 18 July 1947(1947-07-18) (aged 41)
Place of death Tallinn, Soviet-occupied Estonia
Position(s) Goalkeeper, Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Sport Tallinn[1] 112 (18)
International career‡
1924–1939 Estonia[1] 66 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 January 2000
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 1 January 2000

Evald Tipner (13 March 1906 – 18 July 1947) was an Estonian footballer widely regarded as one of the greatest Estonian goalkeepers of all time.[2][3] He was capped 66 times for Estonian national football team, 7 times for bandy national team and once for ice hockey team. Tipner was also a good track and field athlete.

In 2012, the Estonian Football Association named the Estonian Cup competition after him.

Some sources report him as the first goalscorer in the history of World Cup preliminary competition, having scored what would be an own goal for Sweden against Estonia 7 minutes into the game, on 11 June 1933, in Stockholm. Some other sources consider this was not an own goal, and that it was actually scored by Swedish captain Knut Kroon.

Football career

Evald Tipner (on the left) facing Finland in 1934

Despite allegedly having offers from foreign clubs, Evald Tipner played for Tallinna Sport his whole career, throughout which he was crowned Estonian champion 8 times. Tipner also lifted the first ever Estonian Cup, after beating TJK in the 1938 final. Tipner was mainly a goalkeeper, but he also played in his club as a striker. He was a good penalty taker as well.

After his death on 18 July 1947, Estonian newspaper Noorte Hääl remembered Evald Tipner in the following tribute (translated from Estonian to English):

"As a result of a long and serious illness, one of the most popular athletes of our older generation, Evald Tipner, died in Tallinn on Friday. /.../ Evald Tipner's fame was not limited to his homeland. His rare abilities were admired in Paris, Stockholm and many other European centers. In Estonia, Tipner was known even in places where there was no interest in sports. When Tallinn was visited by the famous Vienna football team WAC in 1931, then the team's goalkeeper Hiden, considered the best in the world at the time, said of Tipner after the game, "A person can only play as phenomenally as Tipner once in a lifetime." That was not right. Tipner always performed brilliantly - at home and away. /.../"

Bandy career

Tipner played 7 games and scored 9 goals for the national team during 1927–1934.

Ice hockey career

In 1924 he played one game for national hockey team.

Honours

Football

Club

Sport Tallinn[1]

International

Estonia[1]

Bandy

  • Estonian Champion: 1924, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1935

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Jalka 06/2009, p42. Tipner – puurivahtide hirm. Eesti Jalgpalli Liit 2009. ISSN 1736-7379
  2. ↑ "Jalka suur edetabel: Eesti kõigi aegade 100 parimat jalgpallurit". Jalgpall (in Estonian). 5 April 2016. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
  3. ↑ "Evald Tipner". Olympedia. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
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