King Willem-Alexander is a football fan and has always said so, but he has never told for which club he is cheering on the bench. In conversation with Edwin Evers, in the podcast Through the eyes of the Kinghe now says he is a fan of Ajax.
The preference for the Amsterdam club was created by Johan Cruijff: the football icon promised at halftime that he would wave to the then prince when he scored a goal. Willem-Alexander, who was young at the time, was so impressed when that actually happened that he became an Ajax fan.
“I have to be neutral in all areas of my life, except football,” says the king in the podcast. Through the eyes of the King is a special podcast developed on the occasion of his tenth anniversary as king. In the ten episodes he is candid about various aspects of his private life.
Willem-Alexander also says that he and his wife Máxima have made agreements about matches in which the Dutch national team plays. If the Netherlands plays against Argentina, where the queen was born, she is still for the Netherlands. “My wife is Dutch, she is the Queen of the Netherlands.”
Conversely, the king also cheers with Máxima. “When Argentina plays and it’s not against the Netherlands, I’m always for Argentina.”
