Endang Witarsa
Endang Witarsa was an Indonesian former football player and coach.
Career
Witarsa trained as a dentist, but discovered that his passion lay with football. During his youth, Witarsa joined UMS, a Chinese Indonesian football club, in 1948 as a halfback.In his later years, Witarsa became a goalkeeper, playing as such for the Indonesian national team in the Association football at the [1956 Summer Olympics|football tournament] of the 1956 Summer Olympics, becoming, at the age of 40, the oldest-ever player in the history of the Olympics. Witarsa is sometimes confused with fellow Indonesian footballer Aang Witarsa, who scored three goals for Indonesia in 1957, which led to some news outlets to wrongly claim that Endang was one of the oldest ever international goalscorers, aged 40 years, 7 months, and 21 days.
After retiring in 1957, Witarsa became a coach, taking over the likes of UMS 1905 and Persija Jakarta in the 1950s and 1960s, before taking charge of the Indonesian national team in 1967, a position that he held for nine years, until 1979.