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Wednesday 19 June 2019

Two Stars of the Dutch Ajax Women's Professional Football Team on Aruba

By Clyde Harms Soraya plays wingtip in the year Soraya damaged the months for me, physically and watch her team run
ORANJESTAD — Kelly Zee- Ajax team. She played for crotch bands and psychologically." Ac- onto the playing field to
man and Soraya Verho- the Dutch national team cording to Soraya, nothing compete in an important
eve, two stars of the Dutch that won the O19 (<19) EK and was out of action for is more painful for a profes- match.
Ajax women's professional - Europe Cup in Slovakia about nine months. "These sional sportswoman than to
football team are currently in 2016. At the end of that were difficult and painful have to sit on the sidelines In a Dutch TV program
spending their vacation in where she was interviewed
Aruba. last October, Soraya,
whose mother is Aruban,
Kelly, an attacking mid- mentioned with pride
fielder, is recovering from her Aruban heritage and
a surgery to repair a knee named Aruba as her favor-
that was damaged during ite vacation destination.
a training session in Octo-
ber 2018. "This is a terrible Soraya and Kelly are
blow for the team", ac- spending two weeks at the
cording to Benny Nihom, home of friends of Soraya's
the team's trainer. "We are parents.
talking about months lost."
Meanwhile Kelly signed a To keep their muscles in
renewal of her contract shape, they train six morn-
with Ajax thru the 2010 - ings a week at the gym in
2021 season. the Guillermo Prospero Trini-
dad Stadium, and swim ev-
As member of the Dutch ery day at one of the beau-
national team that won the tiful beaches of Aruba.
EK Europe Cup for the first
time ever, Kelly was award- Aruba Today wishes Sora-
ed the honorific Knight in ya Verhoeve and Kelly
the Order of Oranje Nas- Zeeman a pleasant and
sau. Kelly has played in 24 relaxing vacation on our
international games. island.q