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A close friend of Peter Bosz, Ted van Leeuwen looked back on the Dutch coach’s beginnings in the 2000s and his journey with Ajax Amsterdam during the 2016-2017 season.
In an interview for the media 20Minutes, Ted van Leeuwen, current sporting director of NEC Nijmegen in Dutch D2, tells how Peter Bosz has acquired its philosophy and identity. He defines the technician’s attacking football as “his DNA. I will not be surprised at all that he manages to reproduce his attacking game at all costs in a club like OL“, adds the longtime friend of the new Lyon coach. Johan Cruyff and Ajax like “his inspirations. He did not hesitate to play with a lot of space behind the backs of his defenders, with the desire to offer a spectacle to the public. There is one constant throughout his career: his teams are always exciting ” he asserts.
“Johan Cruyff has greatly influenced his work”
Ruben Jongkind is the great architect of the renewal of Ajax at the beginning of the years 2010. Co-author of the “Cruyff plan”, which targeted the dysfunctions of the club by proposing solutions, he is convinced that “Johan Cruyff clearly influenced Bosz’s work a lot. He brought Ajax back to his identity ” he adds for the site 20Minutes. Highlight in the career of Peter Bosz, the Europa League final with Ajax during the 2016-2017 season. “He gave hope to all Dutch football“according to his friend Ted van Leeuwen.
It then guarantees that “new young players will join the OL team next season because he is a builder. If you’re good enough in his eyes, you’re old enough to play“he specifies. A connoisseur of the tactics of the Lyon coach, Pieter Zwart reveals the method of Peter Bosz to test young players. “He will take them from his first training sessions and put them in a hardly favorable context on the ground, for example in a position which is not theirs.The most important thing for Peter is to feel what a young person is worth outside of his comfort zone ” he reveals. Promising statements for the Lyon club renowned for the exceptional quality of its training center.
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