Feyenoord has provided all selection players with a unique gift after winning the sixteenth national title in club history: a personalized ‘Champions Ring’. The team from Rotterdam is the first professional football club in the Netherlands to hand out championship rings to players. This is a common ritual in the NBA and NFL. Because only one bowl is awarded, each player receives a ring to communicate the success. “The more Champions Rings an athlete has collected, the greater his status,” says Feyenoord.
The Feyenoord logo is depicted in diamonds on the ring. In addition, the initials of the player in question, his shirt number, the skyline of Rotterdam, the year of the national title and the championship scale can be found on the unique gift. Feyenoord plans to hand out championship rings more often for future titles, the club says. Feyenoord’s selection includes several basketball enthusiasts. For example, midfielder Quinten Timber closely follows the American competition. The players received their rings on Friday. The copy of trainer Arne Slot will be immortalized in the Feyenoord Museum.
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A personalized Champions Ring for all our players. ?? pic.twitter.com/iXcWZucR42
— Feyenoord Rotterdam (@Feyenoord) May 26, 2023
The selection of Feyenoord returned from Ibiza on Thursday, where the championship was celebrated exuberantly. Several videos surfaced via the Snapchat channels of Lutsharel Geertruida and Neraysho Kasanwirjo. In particular the song ‘What then?!’ van Broederliefde is currently popular in the Rotterdam selection. Captain Orkun Kökçü also went wild on the song ‘Freed from desire’ by GALA. Slot received his players with a start-up training on Friday. Feyenoord will train again on Saturday, after which the last competition match with Vitesse awaits on Sunday.
??We go forward, backward. To the left, to the right…?? The selection is having a great time in Ibiza! ?? pic.twitter.com/ZUB9Xfc5Pc
— 1908.nl (@1908nl) May 24, 2023
No Rolex
After winning the previous national title (2017), Feyenoord rewarded the entire selection with a personalized Rolex worth tens of thousands of euros. Striker Michiel Kramer decided in 2021 to put the unique watch up for sale for 51,010 euros. The tall attack leader later revealed to it General Journal to have done this ‘for security reasons’. Kramer would have been a target of the same ‘Rolex gang’ that also tried to rid René van der Gijp of his expensive watch in April 2020. The watch that Feyenoord gave as a gift in 2017, without the club’s initials and championship, was like this. n worth 34,000 euros. The Stadium club has now treated the selection players to a ‘safer’ championship gift.