“It may be strange to say,” he realizes just before a training of the Dutch national team in Zeist. “But that’s how I finally got peace to get fit.”
After various injuries, the reserve captain of Oranje is back with the national team for the first time in nine months. He suffered a hamstring injury in his last international match against Germany. “And at City we had so many injuries that I always started too quickly. I was not obliged to do that. I felt it was necessary. It didn’t go, it didn’t run.”
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After four national titles in a row, City performed so moderate at one point that it only won twice in fourteen duels. Aké did not just keep hamstring complaints. “I also had a stress fracture in my foot since October. I played with painkillers and kept it up until March, until I sustained that break and had to be operated on.”
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With a third final classification in the Premier League, Manchester City has qualified for the Champions League. “That was very important,” says Aké, who knows that his team has not yet closed a long debilitating season. World Football Association FIFA has found a place for the World Cup for clubs on the calendar. That tournament will start in a week and a half in the United States
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“I am fit again and I think it is an important tournament for our club,” says Aké. “I am looking forward to it, but for boys who have played everything with Internazionale, for example, it may feel different after a final of the Champions League.”