Johan Cruyff How Johan Cruyff and Ajax thought 'outside the box' to reach the topCNN - By Nick Friend and Sean Coppack, CNN(CNN) — If it 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
AFC Ajax Matthijs de Ligt: Ajax's latest homegrown heroCNN - By Nick Friend and Sean Coppack, CNN(CNN) — There are few football clubs like Ajax. There are even fewer, perhaps, with as clear a pathway between academy and greatness. Johan Cruyff, Marco van Basten, Ronald Koeman, Dennis Bergkamp, Edgar
AFC Ajax From Cruyff to de Ligt: The evolution of Ajax's $500 million football factoryCNN - By Sean Coppack and Eoghan Macguire, CNNAmsterdam, the Netherlands (CNN) — Former Ajax player and coach Danny Blind sits down in the club's boardroom and begins to reel off some of the most prominent players to have contributed to its success
AFC Ajax Appie Nouri: 'You never know how good he could have been,' says Danny BlindCNN - By Nick Friend and Sean Coppack, CNN(CNN) — "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
