Ajax made history this Saturday.
It happened during the visit of the Ten Hag team to the border town of Venlo, where they swept their host 0-13.
It was the biggest win in the history of the seven major soccer leagues in Europe.
Symptom of the inequalities inherent in the Eredivisie, the Netherlands First Division, and, above all, a sign of the times of the coronavirus.
Before the empty stands, without the encouragement of the fans, many teams, even the most powerful, experience the temptation to let themselves go.
The decrease in energy and concentration, although imperceptible, can open large gaps in the maximum competition.
The young Lassina Traoré, a 19-year-old Ajax striker, originally from Burkina Faso, was the great figure of the win with three assists and five goals.
Traoré scored all five goals from one touch.
Three of them went headlong.
Unable to anticipate their incursions, the Venlo center-backs fell back so much that they had little to go before they got into their own goal.
Traoré, who had not scored six matches in the Eredivisie, was accompanied by Ekelenkamp (2), Tadic, Antony, Blind, Huntelaar (2) and Lisandro Martínez.
Since May 1972, when Ajax drowned Vitesse (12-1 with four goals from Cruyff), there has not been such an unbalanced score in the Dutch League.
Ajax's record surpasses everything recorded.
In Spain, the most unequal win in the history of the League dates back to the 1930-31 season, when Athletic beat Barcelona 12-1 at San Mamés.
The top scorer that afternoon of semi-professional football was Agustín Sauto Arana, alias
Bata
, who scored seven goals and, after his retirement, posted a chart with 209 goals in 208 games for the Biscayan club.
In the Italian championship, the biggest win was the work of the legendary Torino, when they beat Alesaandria 10-0 on May 9, 1948. Ossola, Mazzola, Grezar, Loik, Fabian and Gabetto scored.
A year later, on May 4, 1949, the team disappeared in the Superga plane crash.
Only Romanian Iosif Fabian, of the 10-0 scorers, survived the tragedy.
The market saved him.
In the summer of 1948 he signed for Lucchese.
Heynckes, Ayoze and Joao Felix
In the Bundesliga, the record is held by another legendary team, Borussia Mönchengladbach, who beat Borussia Dortmund 12-0 at the Rheinstadion in the 1977-78 season.
The first gunner of that evening was Jupp Heynckes, world champion in 1974, who scored five.
In England the record is more recent: it is held by Leicester City, which gave Southampton a 0-9 score at the start of last season, taking advantage of Bertrand's expulsion in the 12th minute. It happened at St Mary's Stadium.
The top executives of the Southampton crush were Jamie Vardy and Canarian Ayoze Pérez, each with three goals.
The Portuguese League does not know a more humiliating score than the 10-0 with which Benfica punished CD Nacional at Estadio da Luz, in February 2019. Joao Felix, now at Atlético, organized a widely distributed bombing.
Seferovic (2), Grimaldo, Pizzi, Rafa Silva, Rubén Dias, and Joao Felix himself scored.