Marco Van Basten (58), a Dutch soccer legend who was forced to retire as a soccer player in 1995 due to serious injuries, on the local television program ‘Rondo’. The former striker, who had a career with Ajax and Milan in the 1980s and 1990s, took issue with the big three in the Netherlands: ajax (3rd), PSV (2nd) and feyenoord (1st). Instead, he praised a AZ (4th) who are having a very good season
Van Basten attacked the matter of quarry from the Dutch clubs: “In the past years, the Eredivisie was full of Dutch players, but now the big three are usually made up of foreign players. If you look at AZ they have youngsters, they are building team using their own youth and they are all good. That is also possible with Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord, but it is not done. They prefer to buy players and now half of their squads are foreigners.”
The former footballer added: “It’s very strange that Ajax is proud of its own youth academy when at the moment hardly any players from the youth academy are coming in. At the moment they have a very weak team.” “I think it’s great that AZ have their own culture. They stick to that. Two years ago many key players (Koopmeiners, Myron Boadu and Calvin Stengs…) left and went to the academy and it’s working well for them. ” .
Source: La Verdad
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