Don't forget that Mom also said not to use sunscreens containing benzones anymore. Use those containing micro-particulate zinc or titanium instead.
Starts for Jong Ajax: We're back at it! 😄📂 Starting XI > #JongAjax! 👀⏳ 20:00h vs. Jong PSV#jpsjaj pic.twitter.com/pMyLkGg2yv— AFC Ajax (@AFCAjax) January 13, 2020
Mendez gets the start too. Still odd to see him with the Jong Team... but it reminds me just how young he still is.
Is this a spectacular demotion, perhaps as punishment for cowardice, or just a useful opportunity to play, with Ajax not scheduled to play until Sunday?
They sent him back to train with Jong Ajax. Might as well play him since he's missing out on game time in Qatar.
Remember how Ajax brass van der Sar (and the other Orange players) was portrayed, as Spartan warriors: or other Dutch Orange players: https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/300-dutch-football-team. No chicken out
He's missing 1st team friendlies in Qatar. You'd expect them to want him to get some game-speed training. If anything it's a vote of confidence. If they were pissed he left Qatar he'd be training with the U7s.
0-0. Pynadath in for Jong Ajax @ 77. 3 Amis on the field now for Ajax. And Pynadath gets a Red at 90.
"Jong Ajax started with Sergiño Dest in the base against Jong PSV. ... In the run-up to the resumption of the Eredivisie, he got playing minutes in the Kitchen Champion Division on Monday evening. The right back was thus allowed to try to get rid of the throne in the Kitchen Champion Division with Young Ajax SC Cambuur. For that, a win of at least three goals difference was needed. It didn't come. ... After the break, Young Ajax insisted most on a win. Jurgen Ekkelenkamp, however, saw his shot blocked at the last minute and a shot by Dest was no more than a corner. It thus remained 0-0 and with that Jong Ajax, which because of a direct red card from Joshua Pynadath (a hard tackle from behind) ended the match with ten men, had to leave a gap of two points with leader SC Cambuur."
https://www.si.com/soccer/2020/01/11/usmnt-january-camp-relocated-qatar-decision “King said: “If you put the best interest of the players and staff in the center of the decision and balance that with the uncertainty of everything going on in the region … it really is important to draw the distinction between the region and Qatar itself, because the security issues within Qatar are extremely buttoned-down. But when you look at what’s going on now within the region as it relates to flight paths and things of this nature, even before the tragedy in Tehran [of a Ukrainian airline being shot down], just within the region it didn’t feel right. Even though we knew that the Qatar authorities would have done an admirable job in making sure every aspect of our stay was safe and secure, as they will in 2022 [if the U.S. qualifies].”
He was surprised at how big the news of his departure became: https://www.ajaxshowtime.com/articl...rtrek-had-niet-verwacht-dat-het-zo-groot-werd
The average Arab, no. Not even the more radical ones. But the headbangers will kill anyone, anywhere. The jihadi mindset is "they love life, but we love [glorious] death." Bin Laden explored attacking the 98 World Cup, with the England team as one of the targets. They thought it was too complicated and abandoned the idea, not because it would have been counterproductive.
Were we to count all the civilians killed by Western bombing campaigns in those countries as 'collateral damage', the number is likely to be 10 times bigger than that of Western people killed in terrorist attacks. Thing is, political strife introduces variables into the situation, and such variables change for each person. In short, for all we know, Ajax knew of a possible direct threat to Dest for whatever reason (fanatic Ajax fan who hates Americans, Dutch terrorist who hates 'traitors', whatever, humans are complex). If they thought it was fine sending him back, they must have their reasons.