Career
In a 14-year professional career, he played in 433 games (33 goals) both major levels of German football combined (286/11 in the Bundesliga), representing 1. Football Club and Eder appeared with West Germany at the 1986 World Cup. Born in Bibergau, Dettelbach, Eder joined 1.
Football Club "s youth system at the age of 17.
In the 1984 summer, aged almost 29, Eder signed with Football Club, for 150,000 Deutsche Mark. In the 1986-1987 season, he appeared in 44 official games, including nine in the season"s European Cup – he played the full 90 minutes in the final 1–2 loss against F.C. Porto in Vienna.
Eder retired in June 1989, after one year in Switzerland with Football Club Zürich. In the following decades he worked as a manager, exclusively in amateur football.
Eder made his debut for West Germany on 11 May 1986, in a friendly game with Yugoslavia played in Bochum (1–1).