Cruyff's grandchildren
When the smoke from the quarter-final battle in the Champions League was raised, what's left of it? Ajax, Tottenham, Liverpool, Barcelona. Synonyms and variations of explosive, fast football. What a victory for the most beautiful game! Oda total football.
ZORAN KECMAN
Alpha is everything Ajax. Amsterdam. As the alphabet and alphabet begin with the letter A, so does Ajax (not by accident) coming from the city to A, Amsterdam. Where is everything rebellious, open, liberal to the limit. What different football in that city could have begun than such - open, attacking, non-calculative, exciting to the limit?
In a era of football where wealthy owners consider it possible to buy fame with money, which consumes fabulous sums of money, in which sport is seen as an ideal mimicry for many suspicious work, football, like a powerful mountain river, displays its wild, untouchable nature and tells that mastery and talent will always take precedence over the "visions" of the powerful.
The disorder of Avramovic and Nedovic in Italy, Jokic wrote history
" I have not yet seen that the money sack gets a goal, " said the statement of one of the greatest sons of the total football, Johan Koroef.
In two years, it will be exactly half a century from Ajax's first European crown. First of three in a row. Almost five decades later, reminiscences at a time in which Kreutz, Johann Nesens, Johnny Depp and others from the playthings of the then "coins" lifted their moves to Europe and the world on their feet, are stronger than ever.
Ajax's DNA of total football is more present than ever. And not only in his organism, fortunately for all fans of football.
Belgrade, May 1973 and triumph in the grove "Marakana"
As a result of the circumstances, it was just on the day of the 27th birthday of Dragan Džajić, on May 30, 1973, the Final of the European Champions Cup. Ajax - Juventus. The Red Star Stadium, the battle for a big "stomach" cup in front of crowded stands of the Belgrade stadium.
The father, who attended this great event, and who saved the ticket, as a testimony that one big finale was played in Belgrade, told me that the crowd was such that many "stayed without shoes". There were, officially, 89,484 spectators, and our celebrated judge Milivoje Gugulovic was judged. The result, 1: 0 for Ajax, scored by Johnny Reag for the fourth minute of the match.
Why is this match important in this text and why do I mention it at all? The reason is that since then, these two teams have played important and important matches in the elite club competition several times, and which, for the most part, are a symbol of collision two styles, two philosophies, two directions.
On the one hand, Kroef, Nesens, Rep, Ari Han, with the other legendary goalkeeper Dino Zof, Roberto Betega, Franco Kauzio and yes, in the middle of the field Fabio Kapelo. Ajax was then, just like a few days ago in Turin, in the quarter-final match of the quarter-finals, which won 2: 1, played the same formation, 4-3-3.
Much of that has changed since then, of these Kroef's youthful days, one has remained the same, Ajax and his loyalty to their own roots and tradition.
Vienna Ringgit, Night of Patrick Clyverte and Sorrow in Rome
The fate of the young Ajax team under the command of Louis van Gaal on May 24, 1995 at the Ernst Hapel Stadium in Vienna was repeated in the Champions League finals on the Italian, this time Milan.
It was the third consecutive final of the Italians, which was a force from the late eighties and early nineties in European and world football. Again, some symbolism related to the 1973 encounter, Fabio Capello, who played for Juventus in that defeat in Belgrade, was now leading the "ros-nere" from the bench.
The team of Ajax was full of talents, Edwin van der Sar, Danny Rajziger, Ronald and Frank de Bur, Deni Blind, Clarence Sedorf and Edgar Davids, followed by Finn Jari Litmanen and fast-paced Mark Overmars. The match was solved by a player from the bench, Patrick Clayvert, later the Barcelona striker. Goal in the 85th minute for the fourth and so far, the last Ajax crown.
And then, a year later in the Roman "Olympic", again the Italians, again finals and Juventus. Opportunity for Ajax to defend the crown, a tough Row battle and 1: 1 in the end. The extension did not bring anything, but the Italians celebrated the penalties and revived Ajax for that defeat in 1973.
The "sons" of Johann Koroef suffered a defeat that evening, but the spirit of the Amsterdam club game continued to live.
New kids from De Tokomst
And for almost a quarter of a century later, Europe and the world are admiring the new talented generation of Ajax's young men. With more experienced Dušan Tadić and Lasse Šenea, now new pages of history are written by Doni van den Beck, Matthias de Liht, Frankie de Jong, David Neres, Kasper Dolberg.
The tradition of fast, offensive, open-handed football continued smoothly. Dusan Tadic is brilliant since he arrived from the island this year, there is no impossible for the guys who lead Erik Ten Hague from the bench.
De Liht is the best young pawn of Europe, De Jong, who has already bought Barcelona special points, Van den Bek scored a goal for a quarter-final match in Turin some evening, all of which are the product of the famous Ajax Academy "De Tokomst".
How old is Ajax, and this is a full 119 years, has so much to this famous academy where the countless stars of Dutch and world football have stood up. From Chryef, Oro Krol, and through Marc van Basten, Denis Bergkamp, De Bur, Frank Rajkard, Edgar Davids, Edwin van Ser Sara, Clarence Sedorf, to Vesley Snyder, Rafael van der Vart, Jan Vertongen, Luis Suarez, Kristian Eriksen ... The list is long.
Kroef devoted his whole life to the development of the philosophy of total football, one of the venerable Rinus Mihels. Symbolics are that his "sons of the nineties", Edvin van der Sar, Mark Overmars and Deni Blind are now in the third generation since then, included as people in key functions in the club. Blind's son, Daley, is one of the current team's holders.
Nevertheless, the "grandchildren", the 19-year-old De Liht and the two-year-old De Jong, came in line. When they leave, and it will be coming soon, some other talents will come from De Tokomst in the first team. And so, the chain does not break. Ajax resists all the challenges of the modern era. It does not have to divorce millions to preserve the position, honor, fame, reputation. A place in the football hierarchy.
Football DNA
What makes De Tokomst so unique and why is Ajax able to produce so many young and quality players?
The pages and pages of a scientific study can be printed on this, but it is enough to say that everything is based on a carefully nurtured system based on traditional club philosophy. "This is how we play." Everything is possible to change, but Ajax remains Ajax.
Through the central system 4-3-3, Ajax developed in the academy the so-called working model in which the four elements, personality, speed, understanding of the game and techniques are the most important. The first two features are innate, the other two can work and develop them.
Ajax trainings have eight compulsory soccer ingredients - training co-ordination, shot, dodging the ball and throwing, attacking action, gameplay, finishing, positioning, simulating a player's position with a small number of players.
So trained, technically and tactically shoddy, and very talented, they are best coming to the first team. Young players form the core of the success of the Ajax system. Hence, it is not a surprise that many of them are already in the ranks of the most famous and richest clubs.
Final of the Champions League
Semifinals and finals of the Champions League will be a real treat for anyone who truly loves an open attack football. We will be deprived of that blankless throwing of the ball, overcrowded defense lines, tactile based on how to stop an opponent in any way, before taking advantage of his advantage. There is no Jose Mourinho, Diamante Simeone, there is no closure to the frenzy. It follows clean, "genetic football", on goal more.
Tottenham play so, Ajax plays so, the fantastic Liverpool, Barcelona. Who can predict who will find in this spectrum of attack talents after all in the final at Vando Metropolitan in Madrid?
Tadic, who has found a club in his life in Ajax, Pokhetin's dynamic Tottenham with Son, Erikson, Lukas, Klopov explosive Liverpool with a marvelous naval trio Salah - Firmino - Mane, or Barcelona with genius Messiah, a player for all time playing the speed of divine thoughts?
Whatever the outcome is, and whoever sits on the throne of football in Europe, the result will be the same. Winning football. And as some one says beautifully, Johann Koroef, somewhere above, in the heavens, can with a wide smile on the scarlet cap, burn a cigarette and enjoy knowing that his system has once again won.
Zoran Kecman
https://www.b92.net/sport/teme/kecman.php?yyyy=2019&mm=04&nav_id=1532364Cruyff's grandchildren
When the smoke from the quarter-final battle in the Champions League was raised, what's left of it? Ajax, Tottenham, Liverpool, Barcelona. Synonyms and variations of explosive, fast football. What a victory for the most beautiful game! Oda total football.
ZORAN KECMAN
Alpha is everything Ajax. Amsterdam. As the alphabet and alphabet begin with the letter A, so does Ajax (not by accident) coming from the city to A, Amsterdam. Where is everything rebellious, open, liberal to the limit. What different football in that city could have begun than such - open, attacking, non-calculative, exciting to the limit?
In a era of football where wealthy owners consider it possible to buy fame with money, which consumes fabulous sums of money, in which sport is seen as an ideal mimicry for many suspicious work, football, like a powerful mountain river, displays its wild, untouchable nature and tells that mastery and talent will always take precedence over the "visions" of the powerful.
The disorder of Avramovic and Nedovic in Italy, Jokic wrote history
" I have not yet seen that the money sack gets a goal, " said the statement of one of the greatest sons of the total football, Johan Koroef.
In two years, it will be exactly half a century from Ajax's first European crown. First of three in a row. Almost five decades later, reminiscences at a time in which Kreutz, Johann Nesens, Johnny Depp and others from the playthings of the then "coins" lifted their moves to Europe and the world on their feet, are stronger than ever.
Ajax's DNA of total football is more present than ever. And not only in his organism, fortunately for all fans of football.
Belgrade, May 1973 and triumph in the grove "Marakana"
As a result of the circumstances, it was just on the day of the 27th birthday of Dragan Džajić, on May 30, 1973, the Final of the European Champions Cup. Ajax - Juventus. The Red Star Stadium, the battle for a big "stomach" cup in front of crowded stands of the Belgrade stadium.
The father, who attended this great event, and who saved the ticket, as a testimony that one big finale was played in Belgrade, told me that the crowd was such that many "stayed without shoes". There were, officially, 89,484 spectators, and our celebrated judge Milivoje Gugulovic was judged. The result, 1: 0 for Ajax, scored by Johnny Reag for the fourth minute of the match.
Why is this match important in this text and why do I mention it at all? The reason is that since then, these two teams have played important and important matches in the elite club competition several times, and which, for the most part, are a symbol of collision two styles, two philosophies, two directions.
On the one hand, Kroef, Nesens, Rep, Ari Han, with the other legendary goalkeeper Dino Zof, Roberto Betega, Franco Kauzio and yes, in the middle of the field Fabio Kapelo. Ajax was then, just like a few days ago in Turin, in the quarter-final match of the quarter-finals, which won 2: 1, played the same formation, 4-3-3.
Much of that has changed since then, of these Kroef's youthful days, one has remained the same, Ajax and his loyalty to their own roots and tradition.
Vienna Ringgit, Night of Patrick Clyverte and Sorrow in Rome
The fate of the young Ajax team under the command of Louis van Gaal on May 24, 1995 at the Ernst Hapel Stadium in Vienna was repeated in the Champions League finals on the Italian, this time Milan.
It was the third consecutive final of the Italians, which was a force from the late eighties and early nineties in European and world football. Again, some symbolism related to the 1973 encounter, Fabio Capello, who played for Juventus in that defeat in Belgrade, was now leading the "ros-nere" from the bench.
The team of Ajax was full of talents, Edwin van der Sar, Danny Rajziger, Ronald and Frank de Bur, Deni Blind, Clarence Sedorf and Edgar Davids, followed by Finn Jari Litmanen and fast-paced Mark Overmars. The match was solved by a player from the bench, Patrick Clayvert, later the Barcelona striker. Goal in the 85th minute for the fourth and so far, the last Ajax crown.
And then, a year later in the Roman "Olympic", again the Italians, again finals and Juventus. Opportunity for Ajax to defend the crown, a tough Row battle and 1: 1 in the end. The extension did not bring anything, but the Italians celebrated the penalties and revived Ajax for that defeat in 1973.
The "sons" of Johann Koroef suffered a defeat that evening, but the spirit of the Amsterdam club game continued to live.
New kids from De Tokomst
And for almost a quarter of a century later, Europe and the world are admiring the new talented generation of Ajax's young men. With more experienced Dušan Tadić and Lasse Šenea, now new pages of history are written by Doni van den Beck, Matthias de Liht, Frankie de Jong, David Neres, Kasper Dolberg.
The tradition of fast, offensive, open-handed football continued smoothly. Dusan Tadic is brilliant since he arrived from the island this year, there is no impossible for the guys who lead Erik Ten Hague from the bench.
De Liht is the best young pawn of Europe, De Jong, who has already bought Barcelona special points, Van den Bek scored a goal for a quarter-final match in Turin some evening, all of which are the product of the famous Ajax Academy "De Tokomst".
How old is Ajax, and this is a full 119 years, has so much to this famous academy where the countless stars of Dutch and world football have stood up. From Chryef, Oro Krol, and through Marc van Basten, Denis Bergkamp, De Bur, Frank Rajkard, Edgar Davids, Edwin van Ser Sara, Clarence Sedorf, to Vesley Snyder, Rafael van der Vart, Jan Vertongen, Luis Suarez, Kristian Eriksen ... The list is long.
Kroef devoted his whole life to the development of the philosophy of total football, one of the venerable Rinus Mihels. Symbolics are that his "sons of the nineties", Edvin van der Sar, Mark Overmars and Deni Blind are now in the third generation since then, included as people in key functions in the club. Blind's son, Daley, is one of the current team's holders.
Nevertheless, the "grandchildren", the 19-year-old De Liht and the two-year-old De Jong, came in line. When they leave, and it will be coming soon, some other talents will come from De Tokomst in the first team. And so, the chain does not break. Ajax resists all the challenges of the modern era. It does not have to divorce millions to preserve the position, honor, fame, reputation. A place in the football hierarchy.
Football DNA
What makes De Tokomst so unique and why is Ajax able to produce so many young and quality players?
The pages and pages of a scientific study can be printed on this, but it is enough to say that everything is based on a carefully nurtured system based on traditional club philosophy. "This is how we play." Everything is possible to change, but Ajax remains Ajax.
Through the central system 4-3-3, Ajax developed in the academy the so-called working model in which the four elements, personality, speed, understanding of the game and techniques are the most important. The first two features are innate, the other two can work and develop them.
Ajax trainings have eight compulsory soccer ingredients - training co-ordination, shot, dodging the ball and throwing, attacking action, gameplay, finishing, positioning, simulating a player's position with a small number of players.
So trained, technically and tactically shoddy, and very talented, they are best coming to the first team. Young players form the core of the success of the Ajax system. Hence, it is not a surprise that many of them are already in the ranks of the most famous and richest clubs.
Final of the Champions League
Semifinals and finals of the Champions League will be a real treat for anyone who truly loves an open attack football. We will be deprived of that blankless throwing of the ball, overcrowded defense lines, tactile based on how to stop an opponent in any way, before taking advantage of his advantage. There is no Jose Mourinho, Diamante Simeone, there is no closure to the frenzy. It follows clean, "genetic football", on goal more.
Tottenham play so, Ajax plays so, the fantastic Liverpool, Barcelona. Who can predict who will find in this spectrum of attack talents after all in the final at Vando Metropolitan in Madrid?
Tadic, who has found a club in his life in Ajax, Pokhetin's dynamic Tottenham with Son, Erikson, Lukas, Klopov explosive Liverpool with a marvelous naval trio Salah - Firmino - Mane, or Barcelona with genius Messiah, a player for all time playing the speed of divine thoughts?
Whatever the outcome is, and whoever sits on the throne of football in Europe, the result will be the same. Winning football. And as some one says beautifully, Johann Koroef, somewhere above, in the heavens, can with a wide smile on the scarlet cap, burn a cigarette and enjoy knowing that his system has once again won.
Zoran Kecman
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