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Ajax
Club Name	Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax
PES Name	Ajax (Licensed)
Nickname(s)	The Jews, The Sons of the Gods
Year Founded	1900
Manager	Martin Jol
Stadium	Amsterdam ArenA
Country	Netherlands
Division	Eredivisie

AFC Ajax (pronounced EYE-ax) have been licensed in the PES series since Pro Evolution Soccer 5 and are a very good team with top quality players. The club from Amsterdam is four times European Cup winner and former club off Dutch Football Legend Johan Cruijff. World class players like Van Basten, Bergkamp, Davids and Sjaak “Mister Ajax” Swart played at Ajax Amsterdam. You can see the head of the Greek hero Ajax in the Club Logo.

Youth

The is club known for the finest footballing academy on the planet. For years now, the club always bring new talents on the field. In 1995 Ajax won the Champions League with a young squad with very unknown but young talents lead by Frank Rijkaard and Danny Blind. Modern well known players like Edwin van der Sar, ibrahimovic, Sneijder, van der Vaart, Chivu and Maxwell developed and shaved their talents at the club. Players such as Huntelaar, Vermaelen, Heitinga, Stam, Davids have all been involved with the club the last decade.

Big Spending Clubs

Since a lot off players left without a transfer fee Ajax had a hard time keeping up with teams from foreign countries when earning money became a big issue for the Club. All the clubs in Holland suffer form these developments in de football world.

"De Klassieker"

The Amsterdammers have a huge rivalry with former title contender Feyenoord. The match between these two clubs is called the Classic.

Style of Play

Ajax introduced the 4-3-3 formation. Two forwards on the wing and one forward in the centre. Always attacking and playing on the side of the opponent. Cruijff introduced that style in Barcelona when he was trainer and Barça still plays with three forwards nowadays. Maxwell and Ibrahimovic adapted quickly to there Spanish club, because they played for Ajax before.

Players

After the departure of key players like Sneijder, Huntelaar they are arguably not as good as they should be. They have a consistent goalkeeper with Maarten Stekelenburg. In front of him Gregory van der Wiel, Alderweireld, Jan Vertonghen and Emanuelson. All these players are from the Youth Academy of Ajax. Ajax is now building a team for the future after a downfall the last 5 years. Luis Suarez is their most important player in 2010. He scored 9 goals in Ajax first 4 matches in season 2009-2010. The club have signed there first korean player, 18 year old target man Hyun Jun Suk, since januari 2010. Suk is not available in PES.

Ajax Team 2007

Selection Ajax 2010

Current Squad

Transfers In

Transfers Out

 ===See Also===
ADO Den Haag | AFC Ajax | AZ Alkmaar | Feyenoord Rotterdam | FC Groningen 
SC Heerenveen | Heracles Almelo | NAC Breda | NEC Nijmegen | PSV Eindhoven | Roda JC
RKC Waalwijk | Sparta Rotterdam | FC Twente | FC Utrecht 
Vitesse | VVV-Venlo | Willem II

Major portions of this page were written by: singhisking and tritri15