Eljero Elia made a nice gesture on Tuesday evening after the won cup match against VV Gemert (4-2). Afterwards, the attacker awarded his shirt to Willem den Dekker, who took both hits on behalf of the third divisionist and last week in an item at ESPN al begged for the attacker’s shirt. Elia told Cristian Willaert not to give the shirt, but made fun of the ESPN reporter.
Visited in the run-up to the cup match with ADO ESPN last week a training of the amateurs of Gemert. It turned out that exchanging the shirts was a theme. “I don’t know about the ADO shirts and whether they can exchange them, but I have discussed with our material man that we can hand them over,” Den Dekker said at the time with a wink. “If there are players from ADO who want my shirt, they can always get it. Elia’s shirt would be nice, played the World Cup final. Nice to have it hanging in your room at home.”
Whether Elia is still going to exchange a shirt with Willem den Dekker now that he has to pay for it himself? #ADOGEM pic.twitter.com/qPjW1r4uhI
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Christian Willaert presented Den Dekker’s statements after the game to Elia, who initially did not seem to intend to give up his uniform. “No, I have to pay that myself. I’m not going to pay that for him,” said the winger with a straight face. “No kidding, he already has the shirt. I’ll pay for it for him, it doesn’t matter. It’s okay. You were shocked, weren’t you?” Gemert seemed close to a stunt visiting ADO for a long time and even took the lead twice, but saw the cup adventure come to an end when substitute Thomas Verheydt scored twice in the last quarter.
According to Arnold Bruggink, exchanging a shirt is no longer a matter of course, he said after the cup match in the studio. ESPN when the subject was broached. “That is a bit overestimated in the Kitchen Champion Division,” said the analyst. “Everyone always thinks that those shirts can be given away to everything and everyone, but players usually have to pay for that themselves. Because it happens in the Champions League, it seems like it should be everywhere, but it doesn’t work that way. Elia can do it by the way miss it.”