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The Dutch club has established a tradition of playing talented
footballers from Denmark, and the current squad has a number
of players from the Scandinavian country in their ranks
Words: OleDall
'WE are red. We are white. We
are Danish dynamite!'The
song from the supporters
of the Danish national team
was regularly heard when
Denmark enjoyed a lot of
international success. It
peaked when the Danes won
the European Championship
with a 2-0 victory over
Germany in 1992.
Those glory days have gone for
the national team of Denmark, but
Danish dynamite - dressed in red
and white and including talent and
quality - can still be found,
You just have to look at Ajax, a
team with a proud European history
and a club with both a current and
historical link to Danish players,
When Celtic face Ajax at Celtic
Park in the UEFA Champions League
tonight, the Danish presence at the
Dutch club will be evident, It could
have been even stronger if the
most famous Danish player at Ajax,
Christian Eriksen, had not decided to
go to Tottenham this summer,
Still, four or five Danish players
will be in the Ajax squad for
tonight's game and three or four
of them are likely to be among the
starting XI, Christian Poulsen among
them,
The 33-year-old played all six
group-stage UEFA Champions
League games for Ajax last season,
and in a young team, his experience
as a defensive midfield player is
important to the team,
But apart from him, it's young
and talented Danes that Ajax have
recruited and developed into
first-team players,
Nicolai Boilesen, the 21-year-old
left back, has returned to the side
after injuries, and at the same time
he seems to be the solution for a
left-back problem in the Danish
national team,
AJAX'S GREAT
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