“I still enjoy football. If you stop, you can’t go back,” Ascencion says. He is also lucky that his body cooperates and he has not suffered any strange injuries. What keeps him fit? “I always say: drink a lot of water. That keeps the body fit, haha.”
Yet the 43-year-old Amsterdammer is in his last months with the AFC first team. “I really want to play football with my friends. The young people should also get a chance,” he ends with a wink. Ascencion played four games for the club from Amsterdam-Zuid in the second division this season.
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