Dani de Wit covered no less than fifteen kilometers in last Sunday’s competition match against Ajax (2-1 win for the midfielder’s AZ). The Alkmaar club proudly reports this on Twitter on Tuesday. That number is unprecedented, as most field players reach about ten kilometers in ninety minutes.
De Wit was the driving force behind AZ on Sunday, which was the dominant party in its own AFAS Stadium for the first sixty minutes and took a 2-1 lead against Ajax thanks to goals from Jens Odgaard and Mees de Wit. Mohammed Kudus had opened the scoring early in the game. De Wit’s zest for work is also expressed in the number of kilometers he walked, because AZ proudly reports that he completed the fifteen kilometers during the ninety minutes of last Sunday. That is a very high number for a footballer.
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?? Dani de Wit ran no less than 15 (!) kilometers against Ajax.#AZ #azaja #DDW10 #NHDerby pic.twitter.com/rJlmwyMfxo
— AZ (@AZAlkmaar) September 20, 2022
Most players come to about ten kilometers in a full match. To indicate the special performance of De Wit: in 2020 Joshua Kimmich set the record for most kilometers walked in the German Bundesliga since opta started measuring and he did it by covering 13.73 kilometers in the match against rival Borussia Dortmund. De Wit is still far above that. It is not clear which player in the Netherlands holds the record for the most kilometers in a football match and how many kilometers were covered at that time.
The meeting with Ajax was a special match for De Wit. The attacking midfielder from AZ went through the youth academy of the team from Amsterdam and in 2019 was part of the team that reached the semi-finals of the Champions League. In that tournament series, trainer Erik ten Hag also granted De Wit playing time as a substitute and labeled him Draufganger, because he never gives up and always makes his mark. The Hoorn-born midfielder proved that again on Sunday, this time against Ajax.
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