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INTERVIEW. Ria Mattheeuws, mother of Jan Vertonghen, on the hard road to the summit: “Jan bore the pain for his father from a distance. This is the price he paid” | inland

Our Red Devils are known all over the world, but success has come at a price. Even with their parents, who talk about the tough road to the top here. Part 2: Ria Mattheeuws (60), mother of Jan Vertonghen (35). “The price Jan paid in his youth? That he had to bear the pain of his sick father from a distance,” says Ria Mattheeuws, Jan Vertonghen’s mother. “He will always gnaw on Jan that his father was not allowed to live his beautiful football career.”


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