Ajax striker Brian Brobbey: ‘They have never kicked me like that’ | Football

It was a big death kick with which AZ midfielder Tijjani Reijnders pulled the emergency brake in the second half. ,,I still have a lot of trouble with it”, Brobbey reacted.

“My right ankle still hurts a lot,” said the 20-year-old Ajax player, while he gently rubbed the offending joint. “I came here to see if it’s okay.”

‘Very dangerous’

Brobbey had nothing good to say about Reijnders’ foul. “Incoming with your leg is very dangerous. I don’t think you can do such a thing. Maybe it happened by accident.”

View the images of the tackle below:

Normally the Amsterdammer knows how to dodge the kicks nicely. But Reijnders’s hit. ,,They never kicked me like that. No never. Normally they pull on my shirt or something.” Full of disbelief: ,,And he didn’t get a red, no. But yeah…”

Question mark

Perhaps the practice match with Belgium’s peers next Friday (Leuven, 6.30 pm) will come too early for Brobbey. Jong Oranje coach Erwin van de Looi believes that Brobbey, who was still part of Louis van Gaal’s 32-man pre-selection, shows character by showing his face in Zeist.

Because: ,,The fact that he is here, that he wants to play and that he will do everything to make it to the match, whether against Belgium or Romania (Cluj, 27 september, red.) is, I think it’s nice of him”, says Van de Looi.

‘Brobbey understands’

“The fact that Brian is going for it tells me that he understands,” said the coach, who grabbed a ticket with his team in June for the European Championship in Georgia and Romania. “By the way, that’s right. When he was in a much lesser phase in Leipzig, we helped him from the Dutch Juniors to build up competition rhythm.”