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Team Focus: Homegrown Talent Key to Ajax's Chances in Milan

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Team Focus: Homegrown Talent Key to Ajax's Chances in Milan There was something uplifting about Ajax's win over Barcelona. It rekindled memories of when the Amsterdammers were a force in Europe captivating their opponents and audience with spellbinding football. Outstanding, the Ajax school is very much alive, El Mundo Deportivo wrote. We beat Barcelona with...

Team Focus: Explaining Ajax's Style Under De Boer

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Team Focus: Explaining Ajax's Style Under De Boer The secret of long-term success lies in cultivating a distinctive set of values, as Jim Collins put forward in his bestseller Good to Great. This usually means promoting from within and laying down deep local roots. It’s advice that has been followed in Amsterdam; next month Frank de Boer will...

Player Focus: Vermeer's Position as Ajax Sweeper Keeper Under Threat

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Player Focus: Vermeer's Position as Ajax Sweeper Keeper Under Threat Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling, the celebrated author, recently penned the first biography of Johan Cruyff in German: Der König und sein Spiel (The King and his game). He concluded that the Dutchman has been the single most influential figure in football history: no one made a bigger impact as a pl...

Player Focus: Daley Blind - Netherlands' Most Improved Player

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Player Focus: Daley Blind - Netherlands' Most Improved Player There was a moment towards the end of Ajax's game at Willem II last season that would have been unimaginable eighteen months ago. The hundreds of supporters, tightly packed into a corner of the stadium, broke into song – as they had done throughout – a familiar melody with new words. Dal...