Ajax Amsterdam - Ajax Amsterdam Ajax: Football club from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Honours 3 Famous Ajax players 4 See also 5 Exernal link History Founded on March 18, 1900. Honours Dutch championship: 1918, 1919, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1937, 1939, 1947, 1957, 1960, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1990, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2002. Dutch cup: 1917, 1943, 1961, 1967, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1979, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2002. European Champion Club's Cup / UEFA Champions League: 1971, 1972, 1973, 1995. European Cup Winners Cup: 1987. UEFA Cup: 1987. European Supercup: 1972, 1973, 1995. World Club Cup / European-South America Cup: 1972, 1995. Stadium: Amsterdam Arena, also written in camel case: ArenA (Amsterdam southeast)..
Ajax - Ajax The name Ajax can refer to: one of two figures in Homer's Iliad: Ajax the lesser King of Locris Ajax the great King of Salamis, a legendary hero of ancient Greece; sometimes called "Telamonian Ajax" Ajax, a tragedy by Sophocles Ajax Amsterdam, the major football team of Amsterdam Ajax cleanser, a trademarked line of household cleaning products made by Colgate-Palmolive Ajax, Ontario, Canada This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page..
Ajax Cape Town - Ajax Cape Town Ajax Cape Town are a South African soccer team based in Cape Town, and affilated with the Dutch team Ajax_Amsterdam..
Johan Cruijff - Cruijff (born April 25, 1947 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch football trainer/coach and former star player. Early in his career, he was a silky exponent of the football philosophy known as Total Football, developed by his trainer Rinus Michels. Cruijff played successively for Ajax, FC Barcelona, Los Angeles Aztecs, Washington Diplomats, Levante Union Deportiva and Feyenoord. As a player, Cruijff was known for his graceful play and his tactical insights. He has been named as one of the best football players of his day, alongside Franz Beckenbauer, and Pelé. As a Dutch international he played 48 matches, in which he scored 33 goals. Johan Cruijff trained two football clubs after his active career as a player, Ajax and Barcelona. Cruijff smoked twenty cigarettes a day, then had a heart bypass operation..
Hendrikje van Andel - although she has almost lost her sense of hearing and her eyesight. She is a big fan of the soccer club Ajax Amsterdam. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Edgar Davids - protective goggles during football matches. On May 17, 2001, Davids was suspended by FIFA when he tested positive for a banned steroid. Teams Ajax Amsterdam (1991-1996) AC Milan (1996-1998) Juventus (1998-2004) FC Barcelona (2004-) Honors Champions League - 1995 UEFA Cup - 1992 Serie A: 3 1998 2002 2003 Dutch league: 3 1994 1995 1996.
You'll Never Walk Alone - in the USA. In the UK, the song was recorded in the early 1960s by Liverpool group, Gerry and the Pacemakers, and reached number one in the pop charts. It was adopted by Liverpool F.C football supporters, and is now invariably sung by them at matches, and has spread to other football crowds, such as Ajax Amsterdam..
Dennis Bergkamp - Dennis Bergkamp (b. May 10, 1969, Amsterdam), Dutch football player. Dennis Bergkamp is a striker who stands out more because of the quality of his goals than the quantity. He is the kind of player who can leave the two or three defenders he passed wondering what the hell just happened. He likes to score from outside the box or take the ball from there inside the box to score. A case in point is the goal he scored against Newcastle on the March 2, 2002. Dennis is standing just outside the box, with his back towards the defender. A long pass from the midfield comes flying low over the ground. Without even looking towards the defender, he touches the ball only once, leg out-stretched. The ball curves past the defender,.
1981 in sports - Switzerland Pairs champions: Irina Worobjewa & Igor Lisowski, Soviet Union Football (Soccer) Champions' Cup: Liverpool F.C 1-0 Real Madrid C.F UEFA Cup: Two legs. 1st leg Ipswich Town F.C 3-0 AZ '67 (Alkmaar); 2nd leg AZ '67 4-2 Ipswich Town. Ipswich Town won 7-2 on aggregate Cup Winners' Cup: Dynamo Tbilisi 2-1 Carl Zeiss Jena League champions Argentina: Boca Juniors Brazil: Grêmio France: Saint-Etienne England: Aston Villa F.C Italy: Juventus Netherlands: Ajax Amsterdam Portugal: Benfica Scotland: Glasgow Celtic F.C Spain: Real Sociedad West Germany: FC Bayern München England - FA Cup: Tottenham Hotspur won 3-2 over Manchester City Football (American) Super Bowl XV: Oakland Raiders won 27-10 over the Philadelphia Eagles Canadian Football League Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos won 26-23 over the Ottawa Rough Riders Vanier Cup: Acadia Axmen won 18-12.
1984 in sports - Champions' Cup: Liverpool F.C 1-1 A.S. Roma; Liverpool won 4-2 on penalties after extra time. UEFA Cup: Two legs; 1st leg R.S.C. Anderlecht 1-1 Tottenham Hotspur F.C; 2nd leg Tottenham Hotspur F.C. 1-1 RSC Anderlecht; 2-2 on aggregate, Tottenham won 4-2 on penalties Cup Winners' Cup: Juventus 2-1 FC Porto Super Cup: Juventus 2-0 Liverpool F.C. Copa Libertadores de América: Two legs; 1st leg Grêmio 0-1 Independiente; 2nd leg Independiente 0-0 Grêmio; Independiente won 1-0 on aggregate League champions Argentina: Ferro Carril Oeste (Nacional), Argentinos Juniors (Metropolitano) Brazil: Fluminense Footeball Club (Campeonato Brasileiro) England: Liverpool F.C. France: Girondins de Bordeaux Italy: Juventus Netherlands: Ajax Amsterdam Portugal: SL Benfica Scotland: Aberdeen F.C Spain: Athletic Club de Bilbao West Germany: VfB Stuttgart England - FA Cup: Everton won 2-0 over Watford Football (American).
1983 in sports - 1-0 SL Benfica; 2nd leg SL Benfica 1-1 RSC Anderlecht; RSC Anderlecht won 2-1 on aggregate Cup Winners' Cup: Aberdeen F.C 2-1 Real Madrid C.F (AET) Super Cup: Two legs; 1st leg Hamburger SV 0-0 Aberdeen F.C.; 2nd leg Aberdeen F.C. 2-0 Hamburger SV; Aberdeen F.C. won 2-0 on aggregate Copa Libertadores de América: Two legs; 1st leg Peñarol 1-1 Grêmio; 2nd leg Grêmio 2-1 Peñarol; Grêmio won 3-2 on aggregate League champions Argentina: Estudiantes LP (Nacional), Independiente (Metropolitano) Brazil: Clube de Regatas Flamengo (Taça de Ouro) England: Liverpool F.C France: FC Nantes-Atlantique Italy: A.S. Roma Netherlands: Ajax Amsterdam Portugal: SL Benfica Scotland: Dundee United Spain: Athletic Club de Bilbao West Germany: Hamburger SV England - FA Cup: Manchester United won 2 - 2 (aet); 4 - 0 (replay) over Brighton.
1982 in sports - Villa F.C 1-0 F.C. Bayern München UEFA Cup: Two legs; 1st leg IFK Göteborg 1-0 Hamburger S.V; 2nd leg Hamburger SV 0-3 IFK Göteborg. IFK Göteborg won 4-0 on aggregate Cup Winners' Cup: F.C. Barcelona 2-1 Standard CL (Liège) Super Cup: Two legs; 1st leg F.C. Barcelona 1-0 Aston Villa F.C.; 2nd leg Aston Villa F.C. 3-0 F.C. Barcelona. Aston Villa F.C. won 3-1 on aggregate Copa Libertadores de América: Two legs; 1st leg Peñarol 0-0 Cobreloa; 2nd leg Cobreloa 0-1 Peñarol. Peñarol win 1-0 on aggregate League champions Argentina: Brazil: Clube de Regatas Flamengo England: Liverpool F.C France: A.S. Monaco Italy: Juventus Netherlands: Ajax Amsterdam Portugal: Sporting Clube de Portugal Scotland: Glasgow Celtic F.C Spain: Real Sociedad West Germany: Hamburger S.V. England - FA Cup: Tottenham Hotspur won 1-0 over.
Champions League - also enter at later stages of the competition. For example, the three strongest domestic leagues, as rated by UEFA, place their champions and runners-up directly into the group phase, and their third-and fourth-place teams enter at the third qualifying round (unless the club was promoted to the group phase by winning the previous year's Champions League). Real Madrid CF has won this competition nine times. The next most successful teams are A.C. Milan (6 titles), Bayern Munich, Ajax and Liverpool (4 titles). Formerly, the Cup Winners' Cup (between winners of the national cup competitions) was played, but national cup winners now play in the UEFA Cup (since 1999). Champions League winners Season Stadium Winner (total wins) Finalists Score Remarks 2003/04 Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen 2002/03 Old Trafford, Manchester AC Milan (6) Juventus.
Cup Winners' Cup - 1970 Manchester City (England) Gornik Zabrze (Poland) Vienna 2 - 1 1971 Chelsea (England) Real Madrid (Spain) Peraias Peraias 1 Aet 1 1-0 Replay 1972 Glasgow Rangers (Scotland) Dinamo Moscow (Russia) Barcelona 3 Aet 2 1973 AC Milan (Italy) Leeds United (England) Salonica 1 - 0 1974 Magdeburg (Germany) AC Milan (Italy) Rotterdam 2 - 0 1975 Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine) Ferencvaros (Hungary) Basle 3 - 0 1976 R.S.C. Anderlecht (Belgium) West Ham United (England) Brussels 4 - 2 1977 SV Hamburg (Germany) R.S.C. Anderlecht (Belgium) Amsterdam 2 - 0 1978 R.S.C. Anderlecht (Belgium) FK Vienna (Austria) Paris 4 - 0 1979 FC Barcelona (Spain) Fortuna Dusseldorf (Germany) Basle 4 Aet 3 1980 Valencia (Spain) Arsenal (England) Brussels 0 Aet 0 5 Pens 4 1981 Dynamo Tbilisi (Georgia) Carl Zeiss Jena (Germany).
Sport in the Netherlands - came into existence. A Dutch National Olympic Committee was established in 1912. In the four most popular sports, international successes vary. In football, the Dutch won three Olympic bronze medals in 1908, 1912 and 1920, but new successes only came in the 1970s, when the national team played in the 1974 and 1978 Football World Cup finals, losing to the tournament's host on both occasions. In the same period, Dutch league sides Ajax Amsterdam and Feyenoord Rotterdam won European Cups from 1970 to 1973. In 1988, the national team won the only international title so far at the European Championships. PSV Eindhoven won the European Cup that year too. Ajax again won the European Cup in 1995. Many Dutch football players have gained international fame, such as Johan Cruijff, Marco van.
PSV Eindhoven - from Eindhoven. It is one of the three 'big' clubs of the Netherlands, the other two being Ajax Amsterdam and Feyenoord Rotterdam. The club won the European Cup in 1988. As its name indicates, the club started out as a company-sponsored sports club for Philips employees. However, after some initial success it has evolved into a fully professional football club. In 2003, a former director was arrested for allegedly having been a client of (male) prostitutes below the age of 18, the higher age of consent applicable for prostitutes. Read further Site of PSV Eindhoven Other sports Currently, there are 17 clubs called PSV Eindhoven, all member of the Federatie van Philips Sport Verenigingen (Federation of Philips Sports Unions). The more than 5000 members (2003) participate in 20 different sports. The.
Marco van Basten - a Dutch football player (now retired). Playing for Ajax Amsterdam and A.C. Milan in the 1980s he is regarded as one of the finest strikers of his time. Van Basten was born in Utrecht, the Netherlands. He played very briefly for Elinkwijk before Ajax grabbed him. He played his first game for Ajax in April 1982 and was already being proclaimed as the new Johan Cruijff. In 1987 Silvio Berlusconi brought Van Basten to Milan along with Ruud Gullit, Frank Rijkaard joining them in 1988. In his first season Milan won their first Scudetto in eight years, but Van Basten played only eleven games and was constantly troubled by an ankle injury. Despite this in the 1988 European Championships Van Basten had a dazzling run of form - including scoring three.
Michael Laudrup - for his time in Spanish club FC Barcelona. Laudrup also played in the Dutch side Ajax Amsterdam before leaving the field to become a coach. First he was assistant coach for the Danish national team and currently he is head coach with Broendby in the Danish national leaque. He has a younger brother, Brian Laudrup, who is also a professional soccer player. He was in the Denmark side in their victory european cup in 1992. Michael did not participate in that tournament due to differences with then national coach Richard Moeller Nielsen..
List of Dutch Football League teams - division (eerste divisie). Previously, a second division was also in existence, but it was discontinued after the 1970/1971 season. Most successful teams are Ajax Amsterdam (27 titles as of 2001), PSV Eindhoven (16) and Feyenoord Rotterdam (14). Teams in the premier division (2002-2003) Ajax Amsterdam AZ (Alkmaar) Excelsior Rotterdam Feyenoord Rotterdam De Graafschap (Doetinchem) FC Groningen SC Heerenveen NAC Breda NEC Nijmegen PSV Eindhoven RBC Roosendaal RKC Waalwijk Roda JC (Kerkrade) FC Twente FC Utrecht Vitesse Arnhem Willem II (Tilburg) FC Zwolle Teams in the first division (2002-2003) ADO Den Haag Cambuur Leeuwarden FC Den Bosch Dordrecht'90 Eindhoven Emmen Fortuna Sittard Go Ahead Eagles (Deventer) Haarlem Helmond Sport Heracles Almelo MVV (Maastricht) Sparta Rotterdam Telstar (IJmuiden) TOP Oss Veendam FC Volendam VVV (Venlo).
VOC ship Amsterdam - VOC ship Amsterdam The VOC ship Amsterdam ran aground near Hastings, England in January 1749, on its maiden voyage to Batavia. The ship sank to a depth of 6m, and soon sunk into the mud. In 1969 it was discovered because the ship was exposed by a low spring tide. It is the best-preserved VOC ship ever found. Archeologist Peter Marsden did the first surveying of the wreck, and he advised further excavation. The "VOC Ship Amsterdam Foundation" started researching the wreck, followed by major excavations in 1984, 1985 and 1986, during which huge numbers of artifacts were found. The archeological output was so dense, that new ways of researching needed to be developed, all of which were needed to understand the technological, socio-economic and cultural features of.
