Ar’jany Martha – Curaçao
Martha came through Sparta Rotterdam and Ajax, playing more than 100 times for Jong Ajax before making his first-team breakthrough in 2023. A move to Beerschot followed, then Rotherham United brought him to League One in 2025 on a three-year deal.
I really liked Martha in the first game he featured against the Imps, for Rotherham, as they won 3-0. He scored a long-range effort, his only league goals og the campaign. By the time we returned the 3-0 thumping later in season, he was really poor and hooked at half time.
He represented the Netherlands at youth level before switching to Curaçao, earning a first call-up under Dick Advocaat in 2024. By 2026, he was part of the squad for the country’s first-ever World Cup appearance.
Curaçao are in Group E, and it is a brutal introduction. Germany are first in Houston on June 14, Ecuador follow in Kansas City on June 20, then Ivory Coast await in Philadelphia on June 25.
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