Ajax History

[Cruijff]

Ajax celebrates the 120th birthday today.
All party's organised for this are cancelled. AC Milan was invited to play a match 25 years after 1995, but of course this is also cancelled.

[SPL]

120 years old today .Happy Birthday to a very special and beautiful football club.

[SPL]

25 years today Kluivert's goal got us that 4th CL title. Blimey where have all those years gone .

[Cruijff]

25 years today Kluivert's goal got us that 4th CL title. Blimey where have all those years gone .

Jep.
This will always remain a very special date in Ajax history.

The documentary Ajax 1995 we are the Champions is also with English subtitles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWur3h9sqG0


The 5-2 victory over Bayern was brilliant of course. And together with Kluiverts goal this still is the moment of the final:

[Cruijff]

Blimey where have all those years gone .

Yes, 25 years gone by very fast.

Also it is very cruel that with just a few shitty little details going the other way we were not looking back on a 25 years old Champions League victory on 24 May 2020.
On 1 June 2020 we would have remembered becoming the greatest of Europe again only 1 year ago.

[SPL]

Only time we have played Liverpool was in 1966 and my paper has a big article on that night 7th December 1966 when Cruijff and Co tore Liverpool apart 5-1 in the Amsterdam fog. Evidently Suurbier went off injured so we really played with 10 men.

Nunninga scored 2,De Wolf,Groot Cruijff one each.

In my opinion this was one the most important games in history .The football world became aware of this beautiful club ,total football and a genius called Cruijff.Sadly they did not play in that magical unique shirt that night!

Only 3 of the 1970's winners played Cruijff,Suurbier,Swart with Keizer missing injured.

[Cruijff]

Today our 121th birthday.

Also today... an European match. Not a jubilee year, but 2021 is the 50th anniversary of our first European cup.
The 2th and 3th followed quickly and exactly 14 years after the last one with Johan Cruijff as player we won the for the first time one with Cruijff as coach:




When a club celebrates jubilee like for example existing 100 years it often is a terrible year.

2000 was a super weak year for Ajax, 2008 brought pretty shit results for Feyenoord ( shitty as just above an average year in Rotterdam ) and for PSV 2013 was a disaster.
But perhaps we can celebrate the 50th birthday of Ajax European win on Wembley now in 2021 in Gdansk with our first European trophy of the century!

26 years without an European trophy is long enough!

[Ayman]

Yep 26 years without European silverware means that the pressure is building on Ajax to do better this time. This season Ajax seem to be on par with most of the other clubs who are likely to qualify for the quarter finals of the Europa League. I wasn't expecting Ajax to get past Lille but here we are. I mean to do that, and to breeze through a tie with a team that knocked out Leverkusen, Ajax may be the top two out of the remaining teams.

[Amol]

Happy Birthday to the most amazing football club in the world!

[Cruijff]

Yep 26 years without European silverware means that the pressure is building on Ajax to do better this time.

Jep!
Longer dry period than we all hoped for.

I refuse to accept that randomly throwing around money would bring thropies in automatically. In case Ziyech and Chelsea win this years CL their history still contains not half of what we have.

PSG and City are still without CL win and City even without a final.

Back in 1994 Ajax was eliminated by Parma that kicked our asses in Europe. All kids that missed the early 70's got veryyy bored of the stories (grand)fathers told about a golden age of football when newspapers were still printed in black and white.


The 70's were a long time ago, a clearly once and never again thingie and then in 1994 Fabio Capello, Ruud Gullit and AC Milan came to Olympic Stadium and the rest is history.

In 2019 non of the Champions League finalists were any better than Ajax.

Between 1987 and 1996 5 European finals (3 won) by Ajax in a decade that all Italian, German, Spanish, British, French and even the Belgian sides were throwing around a lot more money than we.

[Cruijff]

Ajax seem to be on par with most of the other clubs who are likely to qualify for the quarter finals of the Europa League. I wasn't expecting Ajax to get past Lille but here we are. I mean to do that, and to breeze through a tie with a team that knocked out Leverkusen, Ajax may be the top two out of the remaining teams.

Ajax may be the top two out of the remaining teams

After the win against Lille Bookmakers did make this top 4:

1. Man U
2. Spurs
3. Arsenal
4. Ajax

Man United will have a difficult night against AC Milan and Bookmakers almost always rate English teams too high.

[SPL]

Happy Birthday to the most special football club in the world.

[Orange14]

Yep 26 years without European silverware means that the pressure is building on Ajax to do better this time.

In 2019 non of the Champions League finalists were any better than Ajax.

I still think about 2019, I still don't understand how the home tie against Spurs ended up as it did. Ajax would have given Liverpool a better match in the final.

[Ayman]

Yep 26 years without European silverware means that the pressure is building on Ajax to do better this time.

In 2019 non of the Champions League finalists were any better than Ajax.

I still think about 2019, I still don't understand how the home tie against Spurs ended up as it did. Ajax would have given Liverpool a better match in the final.

Yes, Ajax kept on attacking instead of time wasting, running down the clock etc. Ajax wanted to finish them off. But Tottenham were also a different team in the second half.

[Cruijff]

In 2019 non of the Champions League finalists were any better than Ajax.

Ajax would have given Liverpool a better match in the final.

Sure thing.
This final was a bloody shit match. Liverpool got a very easy penalty early in the game and after Salah scored it, Spurs directly gave up.

Super boring final for any football lover. Just like EL finale 2017 Ajax - Man United 0-2 was for a neutral spectator just horrible to watch and as an Ajax fan also awful, of course.
Finals are often only about the result and almost no football. That City lost to Spurs in quarter final was a miracle, how FC Barcelona loses 4-0 in Liverpool when the return seemed a done deal, was also 'special'. Ajax vs Barcelona played in Madrid would of course been the finest CL final ever played in history (and Frenkie de Jong + De Ligt would chase forward very agressive on almost every ball, so that Barça would probably not be able to even reach Messi with passes forward)


I still think about 2019, I still don't understand how the home tie against Spurs ended up as it did.

I still think about 2019, I still don't understand how the home tie against Spurs ended up as it did.

Of course you do.
Did all of you already make time to watch AFC Ajax • Champions League 2018/19 • Our Story (English Subtitles) ???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgVqeJrz6-8

100% sure you will enjoy every minute of it!

[Ayman]

Today in 1997, the battle of Beverwijk, where Ajax and Feyenoord hooligans clashed resulting in the death of Carlo Picornie. He was the leader of the gang, and some ultras, especially the youth looked up to him. The world is a better place without Carlo Picornie, he was evil. His sons hide themselves, and rightly so, I would be ashamed too if I was related to Carlo.

[SPL]

Look at Ajax showtime today a lovely article with Johnny Rep about winning the Super Cup 6-0 v AC Milan ,this day 1974.Magic days .

[Orange14]

Ajax legends were at Anfield today to play Liverpool in a charity match. Replay is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6JlF51ETPc and it's an interesting watch. Edgar Davids looks better than any other MF of the current Ajax first team. Dirk Boerrigter had a nice goal in the first half and Kiki Musampa can still bring it. Richard Witschge had a nice cameo in the second half with a couple of great passes. Ryan Babel did what he does best, missing two great chances on goal. Liverpool scored 3 late goals to win 4-2.

[SPL]

Today is Rudi Krol's 75th birthday and of course today is 8 years since JC died.

[Orange14]

Here is a great podcast on the first American to every play for Ajax, Eddy Hamel: https://www.belhamelpodcast.com/home He was a right winger who played under Jack Reynolds in the 1920s and later coached the precursor to FC Voendam and several other Dutch clubs during the 1930s. He was likely the first Jewish player for the club as well and because of this he perished at Auschwitz along with his wife and two sons. The Podcast is extremely interesting and well put together by our former moderator of this section ajaxusa who also interviews his co- former modereator Menno Pot in a couple of the episodes. I did not know that Jaap van Praag, former Board Chair of Ajax (who brought int he Golden Era in the 1960s by hiring Rinus Michels and also is the father of Michael van Praag, also a Board Chair), escaped the Holocaust by hiding out in a room over a photoshop.

[Amol]

Another big announcement yesterday was that Ajax will go back to the old Ajax logo starting next season. I know a lot of supporters were fighting for the change, but I still liked the new logo a tad bit more than the old one. I suppose it will need to grow on me again.

[SPL]

Happy 125th Birthday to the most beautiful and special football club on the planet. Being 74 I am one of the lucky fans who saw Cruijff and co and total football , that team played the best football I have ever seen and a 21 year old English lad was hooked and I still am .

Hope we can celebrate in May with the title but 2nd place would still be amazing after last year when we allowed Mislintat to nearly bankrupt the club.

I still want to see real Ajax style football next season ,Italian Catenaccio style gets results but this is not an Italian club . At least we are using youths again, that is what every football fan knows us for.

[Orange14]

Agree with @SPL!!! Happy birthday to my favorite club. I saw Cruyff once for Ajax in 1971 and later when he was playing over here in the US for the Washington Diplomats. He was still better than everyone else when he was with the old North American Soccer League.

It will be interesting tos ee what Farioli can do next season if he stays with Ajax. I do think he will head back to Italy.