Ajax Get the Marco Van Basten-Johan Cruyff Dream Team
By: Daryl | February 22nd, 2008
Looks like Ajax are getting it together. After bringing in the legend that is Johan Cruyff in a sort of grand overseeer role, the Eredivisie club have now found themselves a proper manager to replace current caretaker Adrie Koster. And his name is Marco van Basten. We already knew MvB was stepping down from the Netherlands job post-Euro 2008, but until today we didn’t know where he was going. Now he’s signed a four year contract to start work at Ajax on July 1st.
Van Basten has been a controversial figure as national team boss, but he’s still a legend at Ajax. The striker began his career there in 1982, and briefly played under Johan Cruyff the manager in the late eighties (where they won two Dutch Cups and the 1987 Cup Winners’ Cup together) before heading off to AC Milan and European Cup glory.
Van Basten doesn’t have much (or any) club experience. He coached only the Ajax reserve team and the Dutch under 21 team before taking the big national team job, so his reunion with Cruyff could be a genuine dream team. The two legends are apparently very good friends, so despite both being stubborn as a mule they offer a winning combination of enthusiasm and experience and the increasingly rare situation of a coach and a “director of football” type that actually want to work together.
And since we reminisced about Cruyff the player recently, there’s no excuse not to relive some of Marco van Basten’s finer moments. Despite a career cut short at the age of 29 by a persistent and worsening ankle injury, Van Basten won Euro ‘88 with the Netherlands, two Euopean Cups and four Serie A titles with Milan, and three Eredivisies, three Dutch Cups and the Cup Winniers’ Cup with Ajax. Feast your eyes on one of the greatest goalscorers of all time.
Category: Dutch Eredivisie
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Can’t really argue with the two best Dutch footballers of all time. Would be nice to see Ajax get back to being a big club and breaking the hegmony of the big three in Euopre.
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I would love to see a strong Ajax again also, but I wonder if a true outsider to the old “glory days” would not have been a better pick. So many old boys already surround the club and drown it with their opinions and comments to the media. This is certainly not a step away from that.
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If the turd didn’t work for Holland, then the turd ain’t gonna work for Ajax. A turd as stubborn as Van Basten belongs in the toilet.
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