Winning against Helmond Sport is a wish, but of secondary importance at SC Cambuur on Friday. It is much more important for everything and everyone to say goodbye to the old Cambuur Stadium in the last competition match there.
A few minutes into the interview when Henk de Jong is asked whether he, an emotional man, can keep all emotions under control on Friday evening.
“I don’t know. I notice it now when I tell you,” De Jong begins. Then his voice starts to shake. “This is really special. You shouldn’t ask me, that’s difficult. It’s a special club, you want to do this well.”
The emotions are also in thinking about the past fourteen years, a large part of which De Jong worked for Cambuur. He thinks of Keimpe Vellinga and Siepie Lijzinga, two real club people. But also to his fishing friend Cor Spinder, sponsor Rienk Waaksma and former footballer Chris de Wagt.
They will also be remembered on Friday, when the match is stopped briefly in the twelfth minute. “They are all real Cambuur people, who are no longer there. You think about that for a moment.”
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