<p class="bodytext">Dutch international footballer Quincy Promes has been arrested in connection with a stabbing at a family gathering earlier this year, a Dutch news report said Sunday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The 28-year-old Ajax forward Promes "is suspected of assault resulting in serious physical injury," popular daily tabloid De Telegraaf said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The incident happened at a family party at a shed in the scenic town of Abcoude, just outside Amsterdam in late July, the newspaper said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"A relative was seriously injured and suffered, among other things, very serious knee injuries," in the incident, the newspaper said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Promes allegedly got into a scuffle after an argument with the relative and other family members immediately intervened, the paper said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The relative laid charges a month ago, it added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Amsterdam police spokesman Jelmer Geerds told AFP a "28-year-old man has been arrested" but declined to give further details.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He said the suspect was in custody and a decision whether he would be released on bail would be taken later on Sunday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ajax could not immediately be reached for comment, but the NOS public broadcaster said the club confirmed that Promes was not at training on Sunday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Before that he played for Spartak in Moscow, where he was named Footballer of the Year in Russia in 2017.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He played his first match in Dutch national colours in March 2014 against France.</p>
<p class="bodytext">Dutch international footballer Quincy Promes has been arrested in connection with a stabbing at a family gathering earlier this year, a Dutch news report said Sunday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The 28-year-old Ajax forward Promes "is suspected of assault resulting in serious physical injury," popular daily tabloid De Telegraaf said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The incident happened at a family party at a shed in the scenic town of Abcoude, just outside Amsterdam in late July, the newspaper said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"A relative was seriously injured and suffered, among other things, very serious knee injuries," in the incident, the newspaper said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Promes allegedly got into a scuffle after an argument with the relative and other family members immediately intervened, the paper said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The relative laid charges a month ago, it added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Amsterdam police spokesman Jelmer Geerds told AFP a "28-year-old man has been arrested" but declined to give further details.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He said the suspect was in custody and a decision whether he would be released on bail would be taken later on Sunday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ajax could not immediately be reached for comment, but the NOS public broadcaster said the club confirmed that Promes was not at training on Sunday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Before that he played for Spartak in Moscow, where he was named Footballer of the Year in Russia in 2017.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He played his first match in Dutch national colours in March 2014 against France.</p>