Yuri Heerkens has suffered a major setback. The 19-year-old Jong Ajax goalkeeper injured his ankle during Monday evening\u2019s away match against Vitesse and will not feature again this season, Ajax announced on the club\u2019s website.<\/p>\n
The keeper was forced to leave the pitch early in the match in Arnhem. After around twenty minutes, things went wrong during a goal kick, after which Heerkens was visibly in pain and unable to continue playing.<\/p>\n
A day later, medical examinations brought bad news. The ankle injury appears to be so serious that surgery is necessary, bringing his season to an immediate end.<\/p>\n
Heerkens has been first choice for Jong Ajax this season and has made nineteen appearances in the Keuken Kampioen Divisie.<\/p>\n
In those matches, he conceded 31 goals and kept five clean sheets. With 1,639 minutes played, he was a key player in the team.<\/p>\n
Heerkens made the move to Ajax last summer, with the club signing him from Sparta Prague for around two million euros. In Amsterdam, he signed a contract running until mid-2030.<\/p>\n
The goalkeeper came through the youth ranks in the Czech Republic at clubs including Hradec Kr\u00e1lov\u00e9 and Sparta Prague.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yuri Heerkens has suffered a major setback. The 19-year-old Jong Ajax goalkeeper injured his ankle during Monday evening\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[101],"tags":[749,199,30594,31528,9666,200,31527,31516],"class_list":["post-57046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-amsterdam","tag-ajax","tag-amsterdam","tag-eerste-divisie","tag-j-heerkens","tag-jong-ajax","tag-netherlands","tag-vitesse","tag-vitesse-vs-jong-ajax"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116365901842013702","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}