After the benefit match between the BIF All Stars and the Ajax Legends (2-4), Simon Tahamata looked back on his departure from the Amsterdam team. The 67-year-old Vughter native left Ajax earlier this year, after more than ten years as a technique trainer in the youth academy.

It has now been a month and a half since the departure of Tahamata, who was also active as a footballer for Ajax at the end of the 1970s. In conversation with SBS he looks back on the past few months.

“I don't miss the club, to be honest,” he begins. “But I do miss the volunteers who work there, the people from the restaurant. I actually miss that the most. The club is no longer the club where I started, I think. I just talked about DNA, and we are too easily pushed aside by people who don't have it.”

Ajax is having a difficult season. The club was even last six months ago, but has now risen to fifth place. The fact that many people are enjoying the malaise at Ajax has not gone unnoticed by Tahamata.

“We didn't invent it, but we always want to be the best,” he refers to people with Ajax DNA. “That has nothing to do with being shy, because I also know that a lot of people were happy when we were eighteenth.”

“But are we allowed to have haircuts or not?” he continues. “There are three stars on our shirt. So are we allowed to have haircuts, or not?”

“If the first one goes poorly, we all feel it. If you are a bit of an Ajax player, you feel that. Then you get the wind from the front. But if all goes well you don't hear them, of course not. Do you think it's crazy?” Tahamata concludes.

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