It is the first Western European championship which has already announced that it will not resume. While the government announced the cancellation of various sporting and cultural events across the country earlier in the week, the Dutch Federation had no choice but to formalize what many fans feared: the season 2019/2020 is canceled. Concretely, this decision was already awaited by many players in Dutch football, starting with Marc Overmars, the sports director of Ajax, who had instructed the football authorities who wanted to force a return to competition. PSV, Feyenoord and AZ Alkmaar were also positioned for a football stoppage.
But inevitably, this decision does not only make people happy. First of all in Ajax, which will not be champion this season. Ajax CEO Edwin van der Sar said the decision made sense in front of the camerasAjax TV : “We have been in the lead all year round but it is understandable given the current situation. There are more important things for now ”. But within the workforce, you don’t see it that way. ” After 25 games, we are at the top (ranking, editor’s note). I play football to win prizes, as do players from AZ, PSV and Feyenoord. And the championship is a great price. It’s a big disappointment for me “, Said Dusan Tadic in particular to AD.
Players do not agree
“There is no officially champion. Of course I would have preferred to win the title on the field but if I had to choose a champion, for me it is Ajax “, for his part explained Hakim Ziyech, who will not be able to say goodbye to his club on a title, he who will join Chelsea this summer. “We are first despite all the stories that AZ deserved it because they beat us twice. Would the goal difference, as it always does, no longer count? Bullshit of course ”, he concluded. But if there are those who feel particularly injured, it is the small clubs. This is the case of Utrecht, sixth in the championship, who was to play the Cup final against Feyenoord. In addition to being able to win a title, the club could have claimed a place in the Europa League. But everything fell into the water.
“We can do that on September 1, what can it do?” Why can’t we? What would it change? It may be in October that UEFA will decide which clubs will play in Europe, how and where ”, launched owner Frans van Seumeren. And if there will be no relegated, there will therefore be no promotion. There too, there is controversy. “NAC Breda had won, on the ground, their opportunity to fight for the climb. Teams like Den Haag and Waalwijk, for whom maintaining Eredivisie was very complicated, are therefore favored, it doesn’t seem fair to me. It is not normal that the classification is used to qualify the teams in Europe, but not to relegate them “, launched Roger Riera, defender of NAC Breda, fifth of Dutch D2 at AS. Suffice to say that we may see a nice string of declarations of the same style and even legal action in the coming days …
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