National title beckons for Ajax-routinier Stekelenburg after fear of the end of career | Football

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‘After the diagnosis I was a bit broken’

In the first competition match after his lingering hip injury – away from NEC on April 23 – Maarten Stekelenburg wrote history. The keeper was the first 39-year-old Ajax player ever in the Eredivisie. Nice, he thinks. But being the first at that age with the championship scale seems even more honorable to him.

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