'The way they play, they make it look so easy, they constantly read the game two steps before anyone else on the pitch so they read the game constantly and they get the ball in good spaces and they hardly lose the ball, you can't get near them so these small things made them a good player.'Īlready, Bonevacia has flourished in the spotlight at Western Sydney. 'The guys that affected me the most was Gabri, Sneijder and Suarez,' Bonevacia said. Now at the Wanderers, he has a chance to showcase the lessons he learnt first hand from this mentors in The Netherlands with the attention firmly on him. I can prove myself in these big games and I love to prove myself to the world and the fans,' he said.įor the bulk of his career since leaving Ajax, Bonevacia had to capture the attention at smaller clubs within their respective leagues.

It's good for me to play a game like this.

'In the big games you see, I can show people my skills, my qualities and I love to play with pressure. Save for a match against Willem II, Bonevacia has never had first-hand experience of playing in a heated rivalry despite growing up with the concept of derbies firmly ingrained in his football education and that pressure is what the 26-year-old craved. However, Bonevacia was limited to just two games for the famed Dutch club before moving to NAC Breda, Roda JC and then Wellington Phoenix, meaning he would never get to replicate his mentors' feats in derbies of his own. They taught Bonevacia how to read the game on the training pitch and as he watched from the reserves bench at the Amsterdam Arena, he saw how they applied that awareness in Ajax's biggest games, particularly in derbies against Feyenoord and PSV. During his teens, he trained alongside Christian Eriksen, Luis Suarez, Wesley Sneijder and Toby Alderweireld where he had to survive against those who would go on to play at the highest level.

As a kid, he watched the likes of Aaron Winter, Edgar Davids and Rafael Van der Vaart, scribbling notes and watching with inspiration. From the age of 10, the midfielder progressed through the famed halls of arguably the world's greatest football factory. For the better part of 12 years, Western Sydney Wanderers midfielder Roly Bonevacia watched in admiration of the stars at Ajax.

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