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“Does everybody nonetheless have their coronary heart?”, asks presenter Sjoerd Mossou to a packed Grote Markt in Breda. “No coronary heart assaults?” asks the journalist and avid NAC fan once more. “Everybody continues to be alive? Nice then we will begin!”
Grote Markt in Breda crammed up for the NAC celebration
Hundreds of individuals wearing yellow and black gathered on the Grote Markt in Breda on Monday followingnoon to have a good time the NAC soccer membership.
After 5 years, the Brabant membership returns to the Premier League, following a loopy denouement of the play-offs for promotion and relegation in opposition to Excelsior (7-6 over two matches).
The complete sq. sang from left to proper to the well-known Snollebollekes music and sang loudly that Brabant nights are lengthy. “They typically begin slowly. Sure, however then, sure, however then!”
“Hopefully I might be understood a bit,” says Leon Deckers. “As a result of my voice is totally screwed up,” the NAC supporter chuckles hoarsely. Deckers is on the board of the supporters’ affiliation Breda Loco’s and is editor of NAC fanzine De Rat.
“I behaved calmly final evening. It was half previous two, I believe, by Breda requirements. I additionally needed to work a bit at the moment.”
Unnecessarily thrilling
NAC began the second recreation within the play-off closing on Sunday with a 6-2 lead in opposition to Excelsior. What might go mistaken, folks mentioned to Deckers. However he was positively not snug with it. “At NAC it all the time needs to be unnecessarily thrilling. We went via all of the feelings that exist yesterday.”
ANPNAC followers watched the match in opposition to Excelsior in a parking zone behind the Rat Verlegh Stadium in Breda
What’s referred to as: Excelsior scored one purpose following one other on Sunday, inflicting the staff of outgoing coach Jean-Paul van Gastel to all of the sudden discover themselves 4-0 behind.
When Casper Staring made it 4-1 on behalf of NAC, the strain was nearly insufferable for greater than half an hour, says Deckers. “However we nonetheless obtained it over the road. What an apotheosis of feelings and sound, I’ve seen huge guys fall into one another’s arms crying.”
What makes NAC so stunning? “It sounds possibly tacky, however NAC is extra than simply soccer. For many individuals it’s their supply of help, all they’ve. We’ve not actually been handled to good soccer lately, and but the stadium is totally full. That claims lots.”
Mediocre season
The promotion got here fully unexpectedly for NAC. The membership carried out poorly this season and completed in eighth place within the first division. “We did not give a cent extra for it. I even thought: let these play-offs move us by. That will probably be an embarrassing story, one huge humiliation.”
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Nevertheless it was something however that. Within the first spherical of the play-offs, NAC gained 8-1 in opposition to Roda JC over two matches. After that, FC Emmen additionally misplaced 4-1.
“The 5 video games within the play-offs had been nice,” mentioned coach Van Gastel in dialog with Omroep Brabant. “Yesterday was a dramatic match. However I’ve all the time believed in it. And I’m extremely proud, as a boy from town, I used to be born and raised right here. That I can expertise that is actually nice.”