Steven Bergwijn will most likely make his debut in Ajax’s main squad tonight. The right winger does that against his old club PSV. In 2011, Bergwijn exchanged Ajax’s youth academy for that of the Eindhoven players. After his departure from Ajax, the 24-year-old attacker felt resentful for years, he says in an interview with the General Newspaper. Bergwijn even hated Ajax.
“Not because I played for PSV, but because of how I left and treated it, I still hated Ajax in the beginning. Inside, I was done with it for the first few years after I left.” In conversation with the newspaper, Bergwijn elaborates on that departure. “The fun was gone because certain things happened.”
The then fourteen-year-old Bergwijn thought it was time for a different environment. “I am an emotional person and I was no longer happy at Ajax at the time. That had little to do with playing time. I played regularly. This has been going on for a long time. Things happened. The connection with the trainer, whose name is not important, was not there either.” Bergwijn and his father did not have a good relationship with Orlando Trustfull, who was a youth trainer at the B1 of Ajax.
In the end, Bergwijn opted for a switch to arch rival PSV. “It wasn’t difficult for me, but it was for my parents. My father drove up and down from Amsterdam every day. The rest of the family also did a lot for me. That paid off in the end.” Bergwijn eventually broke through in Eindhoven and played in the spotlight at Tottenham Hotspur. After three difficult seasons in London, Bergwijn can make his official debut in Ajax’s main squad tonight, more than eleven years after his departure from the youth academy.
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