{"id":30716,"date":"2024-08-17T02:21:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T23:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=30716"},"modified":"2024-08-17T02:21:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T23:21:01","slug":"ajax-keeper-hailed-as-hero-after-crazy-shoot-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/17\/ajax-keeper-hailed-as-hero-after-crazy-shoot-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Ajax Keeper Hailed as Hero After &#8216;Crazy&#8217; Shoot-Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The 40-year-old goalkeeper of Ajax was being hailed as a hero Friday after the Dutch giants won a &#8220;crazy&#8221; penalty shoot-out 13-12 to advance into the Europa League play-offs.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Remko Pasveer saved five penalties and scored one himself to squeeze Ajax past Greek side Panathinaikos in one of the longest penalty shoot-outs in history, said AFP.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The total of 34 penalty kicks was the most taken in a UEFA competition, beating a game between the Netherlands and England in the under-21 European Championship, where 32 were taken.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It was a &#8220;bizarre&#8221; shoot-out, Pasveer said after the match. &#8220;So many penalties and every time someone missed, the other team missed.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;This was crazy,&#8221; said Ajax coach Francesco Farioli. &#8220;But it was also a great evening. We are now definitely playing in Europe.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He joked that Pasveer could expect to be immortalized in the corridors of the Ajax stadium where pictures of some of the greats of Dutch football hang.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;Remko asked why there was never a picture of a goalkeeper who has kept a clean sheet. I told him he should maybe play a bit better,&#8221; quipped the coach.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;But now I think we should quickly hang up a picture of him.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It was a welcome win for Ajax, who are trying to bounce back from one of the most disappointing seasons in their illustrious history.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">At one point the 36-time Dutch champions were bottom of the Eredivisie and suffered humiliating losses to rivals Feyenoord and PSV Eindhoven.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">With new coach Farioli at the helm, the Amsterdam-based club is hoping for a turnaround in fortunes and won their first Eredivisie match 1-0 against Heerenveen on Sunday.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies The 40-year-old goalkeeper of Ajax was being hailed as a hero Friday after the Dutch giants won a &#8220;crazy&#8221; penalty shoot-out 13-12 to advance into the Europa League play-offs. Remko Pasveer saved five penalties and scored one himself to squeeze Ajax past Greek side Panathinaikos in one of the longest penalty &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30717,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30716\/revisions\/30717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}