Ajax is playing terribly beautiful football this season. The Dutch team has played 28 matches so far this season. Ajax has scored 92 goals so far. Eaten only 13 goals. Excelsior Masluis Club felt the power of Ajax yesterday. Ajax beat Excelsior 9-0 in the Dutch Cup.
The opposing team is supposed to be upset after flying 9 goals. But Devin Planck of Excelsior will always remember one moment of that match. A day in his 20 years of life that has never happened before.
Ajax have beaten first division club Cambur 9-0 in the league this season. Seven times the opponent has lost 5-0 in the league. PSV Eindhofen is also at the top of the league! The team also gave 4/5 goals to FC Porto and Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League. Excelsior, meanwhile, is the third tier club in Dutch football. Against the great Ajax, it is normal to be swept away by the flood of goals.
Ajax dropped the second XI. Ajax scored 9 goals in 63 minutes. But the best moment of the match is 69 minutes. The last time Devin Planck took the field was in October 2020. The striker was not seen on the field for several days due to illness. He went to the hospital feeling pain in his legs, and then he got terrible bad news. He has a tumor on his leg, which is slowly turning into cancer. At the age of 19 his life stopped.
Then he has come a long way. Has taken chemotherapy regularly. Not fully recovered yet. However, his doctors finally allowed him to enter the field. However, they have also tied the time. He said that if you don't want to disrupt the rehabilitation process, you can't play for more than two minutes. Yesterday, with 9 goals behind, the team decided to bring down Planck in the 69th minute.
In the 69th minute, Planck stood on the sidelines of the field. The smile on his face told how much he was enjoying the moment. But there were still surprises. Seeing Planck, the players of his team started coming forward. Gradually everyone stood in a line. Ajax players were not left out either. Gradually everyone stood on the other side. In other words, 22 players have created 'Guard of Honor' for Planck. There was applause with him.
Lulu Statia was in front of everyone. Planck has come down as his replacement. Planck hugged him and entered the field. He hugged everyone in the team one by one. At the end of the match, Planck said, it was the best moment of his life. "I am just happy to be back," he told ESPN. I will never forget this moment. Four of our players were replaced. I thought, I will not go down today. Fortunately, the coach did not forget me. '
But not for two minutes, he wants to come back fully healthy, ‘I am working every day to come back. I hope to play more minutes as soon as possible. '
20 year old Dutchman Devin Plank was diagnosed with a tumour in his leg, and been undergoing chemotherapy. His doctors advised a short run-out would be safe. As he entered the pitch as a sub, players from both clubs formed a guard of honour. Beautiful.
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