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The Netherlands will always be remembered for its footballing greats -- Johan Cruyff, Marco van Basten, Patrick Kluivert, Arjen Robben to name a few.
Ajax, one of the biggest Dutch clubs in the world, was the first to adopt the unique one-touch style of play -- Total Football as it is popularly known as.
But that is not the only thing that is unique to Dutch football.
The Dutch have commenced a new rewarding system for players!
Recently a Dutch football club was offering their players a free car-wash service by bikini-wearing women if any of them get a 'Man of the Match' award.
According to the Daily Star, the N.E.C's unusual motivation method was revealed by former Red Bulls midfielder Victor Palsson.
Palsson was rewarded for his performance against Spanish side Osasuna during a friendly. Palsson, a former Liverpool youth player, was the first winner of the unusual prize.
The Icelandic Palsson tweeted a photograph of by three scantily-clad women scrubbing his car.
He wrote that his car has never been cleaner after the scrubbing it received as a prize for winning the Man of the Match award by N.E.C.
One of his followers quipped that the prize 'beats a bottle of champagne any day'.
Bikini car washes are generally summer events which are fund raisers.
Restaurants usually have bikini car washes in the summer to attract customers.