:quality(80)/cdn-kiosk-api.telegraaf.nl/4a5be5c8-e825-11ec-919a-0218eaf05005.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1 "Sjaak Swart reunited after 53 years with special shirt | Football")
sport">The 83-year-old Swart has kept virtually no relics of his rich career, but through the relatives of Milan defender Angelo Anquiletti, Swart’s shirt came on the shirt collector market a few years ago and a collector from Hong Kong bought the jersey. Especially for the presentation of the bulky book The Ajax shirt. The glory of red & white the shirt had flown in so that Swart could see it up close again.
sport">Swart and Jari Litmanen received the first copies of the magnificent book in the Amsterdam Tower in Amsterdam-North with a magnificent view of the IJ and the old city centre. The Finn had traveled to Amsterdam especially for this. Former Ajax chairman Michael van Praag handed over the first copy to Swart, who in turn provided Litmanen with a luxurious book.
Sjaak Swart and Jari Litmanen receive the bulky book. On the right the Swart shirt from 1969, which was brought to the surface.
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sport">The presentation of the book was attended by many Ajax stars, including Ronald de Boer, Tarik Oulida, Dick Schoenaker, Pim van Dord and Mohammed Nouri, the father of Abdelhak Nouri, whose shirt with number 34 has a separate chapter in the book.
sport">The basis for the Kick Uitgevers book is the collection of four avid collectors of Ajax uniforms, who wanted to share the most beautiful copies of their collection with the general public. Gaps in the collection were filled with a search of shirt collectors around the world. According to the collectors, with 1970 as the starting point – before that there was less of a shirt culture and material was reused – only three Ajax shirts are missing in the collection of more than four hundred tricots, which is shown in the book.
sport">The oldest Ajax shirt in the collection, as well as the book, dates from the 1930s and was still worn by club legend Wim Volkers, who was born in 1899. At the presentation on the eighteenth floor of the Amsterdam Tower, special specimens were shown on mannequins. In addition to Swart’s shirt that had surfaced, there was also a shirt worn by Litmanen in the Champions League away game against Bayern Munich and a special jersey for Johan Cruijff’s farewell match against the same Munich, which turned out to be a painful affair with a 0-8 defeat. .
sport">There are of ‘The Ajax shirt. The glory of red & white’ made three luxury editions, all about Ajax icons Dennis Bergkamp, Jari Litmanen and Stanley Menzo. Litmanen will complete a signing session on Friday, during which he will be present in the Ajax fan shop and in the Stadsschouwburg to provide the Litmanen edition with a signature. Bergkamp was unable to attend the presentation of the book because he is in England with his newly born granddaughter. His daughter Estelle is the partner of Manchester United midfielder Donny van de Beek. Menzo could not be there, because he is working in Suriname with the national team, which plays Nations League games. His brother and sister were present on behalf of the former goalkeeper.
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