Rob de Wit scoresMost probably won't think that's a wonder goal, but it's such a special one, by such a special player. The player that you all should have known, but probably don't. Rob de Wit. A Dutch Ajax player, a left winger, who should've become one of the best the Dutch ever had.
Rob de Wit had just turned 21 when he joined Ajax from Utrecht in 1984. He was brilliant in a team with players like Van Basten, Rijkaard and Koeman, managed by Cruijff. That first year at Ajax he got his first call up for the Dutch national team. And he really started to show his quality, becoming important for the national team too, of which that goal is proof. It was a very important goal against Hungary in the qualification run for the World Cup in 1986. They didn't qualify however, but Rob de Wit had it all as a player. Then that summer of 1986 during a vacation Rob de Wit experienced a haemorrhage at the age of 22, and would never play again.
2 years later the Dutch national team won the European Championships in 1988, a team he should and would have been part of. It's so sad to think what could have been.
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