Ajax has previously had to deal with complaints from Marc Overmars with regard to the matter with Marc Overmars transgressive behavior of a prominent Ajax player. Assistant coach Winston Bogarde has ‘maneuvered himself and the club into a vulnerable position’ at an earlier stage, an external investigation concluded. At the time, Ajax labeled this as a private matter.
That writes NRC† The Amsterdam club was informed in October 2020. The woman then sent a written complaint about “severely transgressive behavior” between August 2019 and September 2020.
Ajax then had the complaint investigated by an external agency. The researchers concluded that Winston Bogarde behaved ‘in the course of contact’ with the woman ‘with little respect and over time in a verbally aggressive manner’. He also ‘ignored the objections and objections’ of the woman.
private matter
After seeing the results of the external investigation, Ajax regarded the matter as a private matter. That is why Bogarde was allowed to stay on as assistant to trainer Erik ten Hag. Bogarde himself does not want to respond to the questions that NRC has submitted to his lawyer.
The woman in question did not work at Ajax, but did come into contact with Bogarde because of his position. According to a psychologist, the woman experienced ‘serious psychological damage’. Not only Ajax, but also the KNVB, sports umbrella organization NOC*NSF and the institute for sports justice are aware of the case. The woman also made an anonymous complaint to those authorities.
Dickpics
The news about Bogarde follows two weeks after the departure of director of football affairs Marc Overmars. He left Ajax after it became clear that he sent cross-border messages, including dickpics, to female employees.