[3] Van den Eynde made his debut in 1929 as a striker in the first team at Beerschot VAC.

Due to a serious injury, a broken leg, sustained in the 1934 FIFA World Cup qualification game Ireland–Belgium, he had to stay in Dublin for three months and was absent from the football fields from 25 February 1934 to 22 November 1936.

Van den Eynde played a total of 134 matches in the Belgian First Division, in which he scored 48 goals.

[6] Between 1931 and 1938, Van den Eynde played 26 matches with the Belgium national football team, scoring a total of 9 goals.

Their mother, Evelyn Goodman, came from London in England, while their father Henri Van den Eynde was a Belgian born in Antwerp.