After Saturday Sjaak Swart is no longer part of the team that booked the biggest victory in Eredivisie history. At the end of his career, the former attacker was in the base of the Ajax team that recorded a 12-1 victory over Vitesse in 1971/72. That record was broken again on Saturday by Ajax, which recorded a 0-13 victory over VVV-Venlo. “Great”, Swart assures it Algemeen Dagblad.

Swart did not score at the time: Johan Cruijff was good for four hits, while Johan Neeskens made a hat-trick. “I never scored often with such great results. I have once made five against MVV ”, recalls Mister Ajax, who thinks it ‘heavy shit’ for Dutch football that a match ends in 0-13. “For example, we are hardly taken seriously. If it becomes 0-13, then VVV is very weak. “

“They were. The entire match took place in their penalty area. If Klaas-Jan Huntelaar had started as a striker, he would have made ten. ” Lassina Traoré started in the base and was good for fifty hits – Halfway through Ajax already led 0-4 and after a red card for Christian Kum in the 51st minute the score increased very quickly. In addition to five goals from Traoré, Jurgen Ekkelenkamp and substitute Huntelaar were each good for two hits. The other goals in De Koel came from Dusan Tadic, Antony, Daley Blind and Lisandro Martínez.

Swart would have preferred that Ajax had scored twice against Liverpool midweek in the Champions League. “That’s a shame, you would have been better off in the group. The European competition is very important at the moment. If we ever could have won again from Liverpool, it was now. But such a record is always great. ”

The old Eredivisie record has thus been broken after 48 years. “Such a record will sooner or later be set. It’s good for them. They must continue like this ”, Swart emphasizes. “They have to show this hunger every game. And I prefer to keep my other records: play at ten different positions in the field and be the top scorer in the Classic against Feyenoord. They don’t just take it away from me. They can have these from me. ”

VVV – Venlo-Ajax (0-13, 2020)
Ajax – Vitesse (12-1, 1972)
PSV – Feyenoord (10-0, 2010)
PSV – FC Volendam (10-0, 1998)
PSV – Go Ahead Eagles (10-0, 1973)
Feyenoord – NAC Breda (10-0, 1963)
DOS – SHS (10-0, 1958)
Sittardia – Sports club Enschede (1-10, 1960)

VVV-Venlo – Ajax (0-13, 2020)
Sittardia – Sports club Enschede (1-10, 1960)
NAC Breda – Ajax (0-8, 2017)
FC Volendam-Feyenoord (0-8, 1963)
FC Amsterdam – AZ’67 (2-9, 1977)
SHS – Ajax (2-9, 1959)

Ajax – Red Boys Differdange (14-0, 1984)
VVV-Venlo – Ajax (0-13, 2020)
Ajax – Vitesse (12-1, 1972)
Ajax – Omonia Nicosia (10-0, 1979)
Ajax – Sparta Rotterdam (9-0, 2001)
Ajax – Sparta Rotterdam (9-0, 1985)
Ajax – FC Groningen (9-0, 1974)
Ajax – FC Den Bosch ’67 (9-0, 1972)
Ajax – FC Volendam (9-0, 1960)