Beautiful images on the Ajax club channels: Davy Klaassen and Wout Weghorst play a game of darts with former world champion Gerwyn Price and Ross Smith, also a professional darts player. It turns out: the Ajax players can throw quite a dart.
Price and Smith came to target the World Series of Darts Finals in AFAS Live at the Johan Cruijff Arena for the Ajax Darts Challenge. Klaassen and Price competed against Weghorst and Smith. “My favorite darts player is The Iceman“, the striker responds, referring to Price’s nickname. “I would have liked to have him in my team.”
“I wanted to put on headphones,” Klaassen jokes, referring to an action by Price from the past. In 2023, Price wore headphones at the World Cup after he got tired of the cheering from the crowd. Klaassen enjoyed the match. “Just like Wout, I have been watching darts from an early age,” he says. “At the time Barney (Raymond van Barneveld, ed.) grew up, I watched with my brother and we tried to imitate him. I’m a big fan of darts and the boys. It was an honor.”
The darts players also enjoyed playing with football players. “It was a lot of fun, even though I wasn’t really in top form,” laughs Price, who is supported by Smith, who was impressed by Weghorst. “Absolutely brilliant. He scored well and finished it. Even if he missed a double, it wasn’t much difference.”
