AMSTERDAM Last summer, seven of Ajax's brightest stars were summoned to a room at the Dutch club's training facility. Edwin van der Sar, the goalkeeper-turned-chief executive, and Marc Overmars, later than a jet-heeled winger and now the Ajax sporting director, had a video to measure them.Its premise was simple. Each artiste was paired later than an iconic figure from Ajax's illustrious history, one who shared a position, a nationality or (in one case) a bloodline:- Goalkeeper Andre Onana had van der Sar.
- Forward Kasper Dolberg got Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
- Justin Kluivert was juxtaposed later than his father, Patrick.
- Frenkie de Jong had Christian Eriksen.
- Matthijs de Ligt was compared to Barry Hulshoff, a defender from the all-conquering 1970s team.
THE AJAX WAYWe focus always on the individual. We don't think virtually age groups, later than the Dutch federation or later than new clubs.SAID OUAALI, director of De Toekomst, the Ajax academy.Last month, Ajax made unusual video. This time, it was for public consumption, posted on the club's social media channels. It was a tiny more than a minute long, but it showcased every of what Erik ten Hag, Ajax's manager, called de Jong's "special qualities". It was titled Frenkie Futuro and was released to celebrate the official declaration of the 21-year-old's imitate to Barcelona, set to be completed this summer.De Jong is the bright lighthearted of the team, a artiste fittingly promising that he has, more than once, been compared to Johan Cruyff himself.Yet there was no regret at his departure. "Barcelona, enjoy the future, later than we do," Ajax wrote on their qualified Twitter account.Ten Hag might permit himself to astonishment a little, he said, at what could happen if "I could save them for two or three years", into their prime but that is it."I will be proud," he said. "The scouts who found them will be proud. Marc Overmars will be proud. Everyone will be."This is what Ajax have always done. back Cruyff himself left for Barcelona in 1973, they have churned out a stream of facility for others to enjoy: Johan Neeskens, Marco van Basten, Frank Rijkaard, Clarence Seedorf, Edgar Davids, the elder Kluivert, Wesley Sneijder, Rafael van der Vaart, Eriksen, Ibrahimovic, Jan Vertonghen, Luis Suarez.The formula that has allowed it to get fittingly hangs on the wall in ten Hag's office, opposite a series of black-and-white portraits of Rinus Michels, the mastermind of the great team of the 1970s; Cruyff, their star; and Louis van Gaal, the man who restored Ajax to the European top in the 1990s, later than an more or less totally home-grown team.Ten Hag laughs later than he looks at that wall - "They set you a standard," he said, blowing out his cheeks. But he is deafening later than he discusses the Ajacied, a irate between a mission upholding and a creed for the club.These are the traits the club aspire to instil in every artiste who wears their jersey, or who passes through De Toekomst, as capably as their coaches and staff. There are 11 of them; this creature Ajax, they are set out in a 4-3-3 formation. They range from taking responsibility and initiative to enduring disciplined and having fun.The approach usefully works. But that is not to say it has not been adapted, altered, fine-tuned beyond the years. That process started in 2011 later than Cruyff returned to a club that, in van der Sar's words, "did not atmosphere later than Ajax any more".Cruyff and the cadre of former players he brought later than him wanted not deserted to reorganize the focus on puberty development, to shed deeply paid, ageing players, but moreover to change the way Ajax worked.The club recognised, too, they had to measure faster. Players were no longer staying in the Eredivisie until they were 23 or 24; they were leaving at 20 or 21, if not earlier.Their second team - Jong Ajax - who measure in the second tier, no longer would be filled later than senior players; now, most of their members are yet in their youthful years."We had to keenness going on the process," ten Hag said. "They had to be fine quicker."De Jong and de Ligt might not have won a trophy but, by carrying Ajax to a meeting later than real in the last 16 of the Champions League, they have "given something back", as van der Sar put it.When they - and possibly new members of the seven - leave Amsterdam Arena, they will go later than the best wishes of the club, and after that the whole system will begin again.That, after all, is Ajax's real gift: their expertise not to develop one player, or one generation of them, but to save on going. It is what makes players' leaving not deserted desirable but necessary."We have to allow the alleyway to the neighboring one," van der Sar said."If players stay too long, the neighboring one cannot play. The whole business chokes."NYTIMES
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