Ajax rounded off their the trip to Curaçao with a practice match against Team Curaçao. In the Ergilio Hato Stadium, the Ajax players overpowered the home team with a final score of 1-5. The Amsterdam team's goals came were scored by Mohamed Ihattaren and Christian Rasmussen (4).
The squad attended a training session on Thursday evening local time at the SDK stadium in Curaçao. The team from Amsterdam were in training in the run-up to the exhibition game against Team Curaçao. The match, against the specially-formed team, made up of Curaçao footballers from home and abroad, will be played on the night of Friday to Saturday at 2am Dutch time.
Children in Curaçao are celebrating new goals, as Ajax and Sandals Resorts International (SRI), together with its philanthropic arm, the Sandals Foundation, launch an island-wide program that creatively turns fishing nets sourced from the ocean and plastic waste into colorful football goals.
The first few days on Curaçao are already behind us. The Ajax team flew to the island on Tuesday, where they were given a warm welcome. Several Ajax players also held a coaching session for locals, and Daley Blind and Maarten Stekelenburg appeared on TV.