It was silent in the AZ stadium when Bas Dost lay on the ground during the match. All alarm bells went off and the players formed a human shield. It was fifteen tense minutes, but in the end the NEC striker left the field on a stretcher amid loud applause. “I found this really scary,” says an AZ supporter.
Just before the end, Dost collapsed, after which the stadium held its breath. “At first I was angry, but then I thought it was quite intense,” said a supporter. “I immediately thought of Abdelhak Nouri,” another supporter looks back on an incident from a number of years ago when the Ajax player collapsed on the field. “It was a tense atmosphere.”
At the time, AZ was trailing 1-2 against NEC Nijmegen. The match will be played at a later date. “I don’t think I could have been on the field anymore as a football player,” says a supporter about the permanent strike.