That was deep bro....yeah I can relate to what your saying....I lost a couple of tears when Zlatan (or Litmanen) left the team...but thats the way it goes i still yell a goal a t the top off my lungs when Zlatan scores one of his typical acrobatic goals and I still feel great when Jari is on the pitch (whenever his semi-healthy) on whatever team he plays for. But you know what thats what makes a real fan..most people in South America are just "Fair Weather Fans" they support Madrid one year, next year they support Milan and then Chelsea the year after...they are a fan of whatever team is winning. We're diferent... we support a team becuase of what it means to us, we support a team because it's diferent from any other else thus we are often misunderstood and laughed at...but in the end deep inside we all know its worth it...i for one have always enjoyed being the only one in the room rooting for the other team....andy schreef:I'm sorry guys but I just can't bear to let this thread go. Wesley Sneijder was my favorite player for the past two years and now his leaving my favorite team. You know its hard for someone who lives so far way from Amsterdam (I live in Colombia, south america) to really relate to a team like Ajax. I like Ko's words so I'm going to use them, the eredivise is off-radar from a place like this (I bet you know what I'm talking about venezuelan ajacied) and people usullay support the typical european giants. But I always had a special fondness with Ajax and it is the team of my heart. And this love for Ajax grew because of an admiration for the ajax player. The first Ajacied I came to admire was Dennis Bergamp, though he already was an Arsenal player when I first saw him. For some strange reason, (I was a ten year old kid at the time) I fell in love with his original team and not Arsenal. I started to follow Ajax at a very young age because of this and my father, who used to work a lot with dutch business men would travel a lot to the Netherlands and got me my first ajax shirt and a Frank De Boer cap. As i grew older, and since I didn't like to be the weird kid at school who liked Ajax instead of MADRID, I kind of forgot about the team. But after the 2002 campaign I was back with my childhood allegiance to ajax and never left it since. As Zlatan and van der vaart left, wesley became my favorite ajacied. I used to get into long fights with my friends by telling them that one day, he would be the best midfielder in europe. Of course they could'nt undertsand in their "off-radar" minds how a player from ajax could ever be the greatest. But now his in madrid, a team they do understand. and I'm left without my hero. I'm sorry for the extension of this message but I'm kind of REALLY emotional about this. plus Ko's article was beatiful.
LONG LIVE AJAX! Wesley will forever be an Ajacied!!
Dont worry... another player we can all admire will come up sooner or later...its ajax tradition by now...cheer up.
