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If is true that no individual is bigger than any club, then perhaps Johan Cruyff comes closest to challenging the old cliché. His connection to Ajax, his hometown club, is -- if not unique -- then ce …
How Johan Cruyff and Ajax thought 'outside the box' to reach the top
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Johan Cruyff, Marco van Basten, Dennis Bergkamp, Edgar Davids -- by no means an exhaustive list, but a snapshot of Ajax's regal lineage. Matthijs de Ligt is the latest -- not so much a cab off the ran …
Matthijs de Ligt: Ajax's latest homegrown hero
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Johan Cruyff, Ruud Krol, Arie Haan and Jonny Repp helped win three European Cups in the 1970s. Marco Van Basten and Frank Rijkaard starred in the eighties before making way for Patrick Kluivert, Edgar …
From Cruyff to de Ligt: The evolution of Ajax's $500 million football factory
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"You never know [how good he could have been]," says a visibly emotional Danny Blind, Ajax's former manager and the head of its academy, as he remembers the impact Abdelhak Nouri had at the Dutch club …
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Appie Nouri: 'You never know how good he could have been,' says Danny Blind
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