After the incident, the black player walked to trainer Henk de Jong from SC Cambuur and walked after the game with attacker Tony Rölke from the home team to a grandstand. Bamba complained to Instagram.
“I am disappointed and angry that after my very first competition for Willem II I have to talk about something like that,” he reported. “Maybe you shouldn’t go to a stadium, but to a zoo, if you want to talk to ‘monkeys’. I want to thank my friend Tony Rölke and I sincerely hope that this does not happen to other players. We are going to the stadiums to have fun, whether you are a player or supporter. I am a person like everyone else.”
Trainer Henk de Jong of SC Cambuur recorded it for Bamba. “This was not respectful from one or two supporters of ours,” he said ESPN. “That is not what we want at Cambuur. I don’t know exactly what they have said, but when it comes to dark guys, that is not allowed at all. We also have dark guys ourselves, so that would be terrible. I am not used to this at all from our supporters.”