Ajax put their own twist on Mother’s Day celebrations in the Netherlands, as players were joined for the traditional pre-game walk-on by their own mothers, before the Eredivisie match against Cambuur Leeuwarden.
A video posted by the club on Twitter showed the team, led by the captain, Niklas Moisander, and the goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen, taking to the field alongside their mothers, with the caption: “MothersDay! If they can’t visit us on #matchday, let’s visit them!”
Ajax won 3-0 against mid-table Cambuur, thanks to a second-half double from Viktor Fischer and a late Lasse Schöne goal. The Amsterdam club are guaranteed to finish second to PSV Eindhoven in the final Eredivisie table.
The Finnish centre-back Moisander, playing his final home match for Ajax before joining Sampdoria this summer, described the day as “very emotional”. The presence of the players’ mums may also have had a positive effect on discipline – Ajax didn’t pick up a single booking in the game.
