Edries Burton (born 13 December 1968) is a retired

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defender who played professionally for Santos Cape Town,

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and

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Early life

He matriculated at Belgravia High School in 1987, Lyle Lakay also matriculated at the same school. He also studied at

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Club career

Burton joined Santos from amateur club Moonlighters AFC in 1989 and featured regularly when Santos won the

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in 1990. He later joined Cape Town Spurs and later won a league and cup double that won the 1995 National Soccer League and the BobSave titles in 1995. When he was at

in 1992, he also worked as a financial manager at Josman and Seidel until late into his

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spell in 1996. In his second spell with Santos, he led Santos to the BobSave Knockout Cup (2000/01), PSL league title (2001/02), BP Top Eight Cup (2002) and Absa Knockout Cup (2002/03). When Burton retired in 2007, Santos boss Goolam Allie disclosed that no other Santos player will wear jersey number 23 which was worn by Burton.

After retirement

Shortly after retiring he became the Chief Operations Manager at Santos. In 2012, he took up a Financial and Accounting course at

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Burton quit as the COO of Santos on 6 August 2014. On 7 August 2014 he became the CEO of

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side,

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. After resigning from Cape Town All Stars FC, Edries was appointed as Chief Executive Officer at

side,

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in 2015.

was later renamed in 2016 to Stellenbosch F.C.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Burton, Edries 1968 births Living people Men's association football defenders South African men's soccer players Santos F.C. (South Africa) players Soccer players from Cape Town Cape Coloureds South Africa men's international soccer players AmaZulu F.C. players