Remko Pasveer will leave Vitesse after this season, the club announced through official channels. The 37-year-old goalkeeper, working on a very strong season, has indicated that he is going for a new challenge. He received a contract proposal that, according to Vitesse, ‘does justice to his stature as captain and supporting player’, but still opts for a summer departure.
Technical director Johannes Spors regrets the departure of Pasveer. “We have made a very good offer to Remko. It is his right to accept or not and we respect his decision to take on a new challenge. Remko is a top professional. weeks to give everything in the battle for European football. “
The news is surprising there Football International last month reported that Pasveer was facing an extension of his expiring contract. Pasveer is one of the leaders at Vitesse this season and also makes an extremely strong impression from a sporting point of view. This season he kept the zero eleven times, the highest number of all goalkeepers in the Eredivisie. He was under the bar in 28 of the 29 games. In those 28 games, Vitesse conceded 27 goals. After Ajax, the Arnhemmers have the least passed defense of the Eredivisie.
Pasveer is in his fourth season with Vitesse, after he completed the youth academy at FC Twente. Between 2014 and 2017 he wore the PSV shirt, where he had to compete with Jeroen Zoet. In total, Pasveer would wear the PSV shirt eighteen times in an official match, after which he switched to Vitesse in 2017. His first year under Leonid Slutsky was difficult, but now he is a permanent fixture and even wears the captain’s armband after Bryan Linssen’s departure to Feyenoord last summer.
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