Remko Pasveer is disappointed with the way in which football players are talked about in talk shows. Ajax goalkeeper talks to ELF Football that personal attacks are the order of the day in such talk shows and that it can hit players hard. Pasveer himself tries to shut himself off as much as possible.
The 38-year-old keeper does this, for example, by not looking on social media. “You can put everything on the internet these days, but I’m not working on that at all,” Pasveer says to ELF Football. “The negative reactions don’t bother me either. What I do think is bad is when you are personally addressed in talk shows. Criticism is not bad, but it should not become a smear campaign. People do not realize how bad footballers can feel about that.”
The criticism of Ajax, and therefore also of the goalkeeper, has only increased this season. Last year it was very different, when Lisandro Martínez was still active in the Johan Cruijff ArenA. Pasveer praises him and teammate Edson Álvarez. “These are guys who fight for their livelihood. I don’t get inspiration from them as individuals, but from the collaboration with them. You go along with their mentality and that gives me energy. Last year I regularly thought: nothing will happen to us. happen, let them come. When you have that feeling, it gives a lot of power.”
Where the team from Amsterdam darted through the group stage of the Champions League with eighteen points from six matches last year, this season is very different. After five matches, in which Pasveer had to concede fifteen goals, Ajax already knows that it will in any case not hibernate in the billion-dollar ball. Next week, Rangers have to compete for a Europa League ticket. Pasveer and his teammates are leaders in the competition, but they only managed to keep a clean sheet four times in eleven matches.