On Thursday evening, Ajax removed a striking tweet towards Willem II from its own account. The team from Amsterdam responded to a promo video that Willem II had published for the match against Rangers FC on Thursday evening in the third heat of the Europa League. Ajax posted a meme insinuating that Willem II was making a bad copy of an earlier Ajax video.

Willem II published a video on Thursday afternoon in honor of his own return to Europe. The club warmly welcomes ‘Europe’ to Tilburg. “I hope you have not forgotten us. Our colors, the stripes … We have become alienated from each other because we had some difficulties. But we have grown and we have learned our lessons,” said the English speaker, among others. voice over.

The video is reminiscent of a promo that Ajax published on May 24, 2017, the day of the Europa League final against Manchester United (0-2 defeat). There are several similarities between the videos: Ajax called the promo ‘We Are Back’ and referred to its own shirt, among other things. The club therefore concludes that Willem II was inspired by the work of Ajax, but that the video does not reach the ‘original’. The tweet was deleted within 15 minutes. The photo showed the result of a failed restoration of a fresco of Jesus Christ in 2012.

Europe… Welcome back, in Tilburg#WILRAN #UEL pic.twitter.com/tN4npO9PTn

– Willem II (@WillemII) September 24, 2020

The old video of Ajax from 2017: