He Ajaxgreat among the great in European football, legend among legends, four times winner of Champions36 times champion of Eredivisie, is going through a deep crisis, one of the worst in its 123-year history. A sporting crisis (it is not in the current Champions League and 14th in the current Eredivisie), institutional and social. On Sunday the classic was suspended in the 55th minute Ajax-Feyenoord with 0-3 on the scoreboard at the Johan Cruyff Arena due to disturbances caused by the ‘ajacied’ ultras. The match will continue this Wednesday.
Jaap Stalenburg, football specialist from the Netherlands, told the AFP agency: “The Ajax It’s chaos, absolute chaos. On the playing field and off it. It will take a leader to sort things out.” Flares thrown onto the field were accompanied on Sunday by more unrest inside and outside the stadium. Police dispersed the ultras with tear gas. “The club is on fire”, the fans association wrote on its website. “The instability is reflected in the team and the board.”
According to the NRC newspaper, this classic match Feyenoord “symbolizes the existential crisis in which the Ajax“. He achieved only one victory in 4 games played in the Eredivisie. From 1964-65 (as a young Johan Cruyff) him Ajax He didn’t have a bad start in the league. ‘Ajacied’ is, with one game less, 10 points behind the leader PSV.
On an institutional level, the Amsterdam club fired its director of football this Sunday, Sven Mislintat. Mislitat are being investigated for irregularities in the signing of the Croatian full-back Borna Sosafrom Stuttgartbut Ajax He said that his dismissal was not for this reason, but because the leader did not have the support of the entity. Apparently, there is a struggle for power in the club. AND Mislitat He went to training and told the players that their coach, Maurice Steincan lose his position in case of defeat against Feyenoord.
The truth is the structure of Ajax is weakening after successive marches of Marc Overmarsthen sports director, in February 2022, and Edwin Van der SarCEO, in May 2023. As for the farewell of Erik ten Haag in the summer of 2022 to deal with the Manchester United. In Ten Hagsin 2018-19 the Ajax reached the semi-finals of the Champions League. Since he left over a year ago, the Amsterdam team has had 3 coaches: Alfred Schreuder, John Heitinga and Steijn, whose future is up in the air. Not to mention that the Ajax It’s a sport doomed to lose its best players to other teams year after year.
“It was a dark afternoon,” he said. Steijn on Sunday after the suspension of the classic. Jan van Halst, interim general director of Ajax and also amid the anger of the fans, admitted that the club is going through a deep crisis. “It’s a very difficult time. If everything was as easy as pressing a button and everything would change…”
Source: La Verdad
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