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‘I just want to make my father proud’
FIGHT – Gerald Vanenburg needed seven words to keep the unpolished diamond Mo Ihattaren (20) for football. “Players with your qualities cannot stop,” said the ex-international, who prevented Ihattaren from the disastrous plan to end his football career. Ihattaren rediscovered the joy of football at Ajax. “I am fit and I feel happy. I think that’s the most important thing,” he says in the beautiful Landhuis De Bloemenbeek, where the Amsterdammers have set up their training camp.