THE AJAX INHERITANCE AJAX AMSTERDAM MICHAEL VAN PRAGG welcome It is with great pleasure that we introduce Ajax Amsterdam. Our club was founded in 1900 and those people that were there at that historic event planted a seed that has grown big and strong. We are proud that the name AJAX ranks so high internationally among the many well- known football clubs in the world. Indeed, when talking about the Netherlands, people abroad are more likely to speak about Ajax than about tulips or the Amsterdamse canals. It goes without saying that this is a matter of great pride to us. At the same time we realise that the club owns this fame to efforts and results achieved in the past and this puts the pressure on the present Ajax-team to live up to its reputation. We have a responsibility of taking this inheritance further. The talents of the players of many great football players of our great era in the early seventies, as well as those of the players active at the time, were nutured in the Ajax youth training programme, which is still, and will continue to be, a vocal point of club policy. According to a familiar Dutch saying, youth holds the key to the future. We are very pleased therefore, to present in this guide a selection, for a major part based on young- players, supplemented with some older, more experienced ones. The fine results achieved at national level in the past two years make us confident that, within a couple of years, our current selection will be able to propel Ajax to the level it once stood. So that in future people can continue to sing the praise of Ajax Amsterdam, the Ajax of the nineties that is. MICHAEL VAN PRAGG President Ajax Amsterdam. Dutch Champions: 1918-1919-1931-1932-1934 1937-1939-1947-1957-1960 1966-1967-1968-1970-1972 1973-1977-1979-1980-1982 1983-1985-1990 Dutch Cup-winners 1917-1943-1961-1970 1971-1972-1979-1983-1986 1987 AJAX AMSTERDAM Founded March 18th 1900 ROLL OF HONOUR Winners European Champions Cup 1971-1972-1973 Winners European Cup Winners Cup 1987 Winners Intercontinental Cup 1972

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