Senn Schilder has little excitement for the tournament on Wednesday morning. “We just shouldn’t complain about each other and play well,” says the 9-year-old attacker.
What percentage of players make it to professional football?
Senn lives up to his words and even scores a beautiful goal. But if he is on the list at AZ today, what are the chances that he will make it to professional football?
“There is a chance that he will be invited to train and then he could be in the under-11s,” says Dennis Zwagerman. “If he also makes it to the under-13s, then statistically the chance that he will make it to professional football is 55 percent,” concludes the youth coach.
In any case, Senn and his teammates had fun during the tournament. “It remains my dream to become a professional footballer,” says the young player. “But that is also allowed at Ajax,” he says secretly.