Ajax Fined: Fireworks Incident vs Heerenveen

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Ajax has been fined fifteen thousand euros by the prosecutor of professional football. This is in response to the fireworks incident during the home match against SC Heerenveen on November 1. A month later there were fireworks again in the stands at Ajax. That was during the match against FC Groningen, and no punishment has yet been pronounced for that.

During the match against SC Heerenveen, the match was temporarily stopped due to fireworks. These fireworks were to honor a deceased supporter. A month later, the F-Side again wanted to honor a deceased supporter. Then the match was permanently stopped after several fireworks were set off and thrown onto the field.

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Tijani Babangida will hold a signing session in the Ajax Fanshop next to the Johan Cruijff ArenA on Saturday, December 20, reports Ajax Life. The former Ajax player signs his new book ‘BABA, between sun and shade’. The book will of course also be for sale next Saturday.

The Nigerian winger will be present in the Ajax Fanshop from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM. He then takes the time to sign his new book. There will of course also be plenty of time to take a photo with the former Ajax player.

Henk Spaan has in his column in Het Parool lashed out at Ajax’s director of football Marijn Beuker. ‘The article about Marijn Beuker, director of football at Ajax, in Saturday’s NRC is shocking. It turns out that, contrary to what he says about his education on LinkedIn, he does not have a bachelor’s degree in “Sports Management” and “Sport Psychology”. And he replied to the NRC that on LinkedIn you always present things a little “rosier”.’

Spaan would actually find it normal if there were consequences for Beuker’s actions. ‘I do know that in any industry other than football, someone who lies about his education can clear his desk. No wonder that the head of the Football Analytics department at Ajax, Vosse de Boode, recently left the club because she doubted the academic substantiation of Beuker’s views.’

Spaan saw De Boode, who is a sports scientist at the VU, acquire a certificate from the world-famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology this year. ‘It seems that Ajax has let the wrong data analyst walk away.’

Rob Jansen, agent of John Heitinga, among others, believes that the four matches that Ajax won in a row under the leadership of Fred Grim should not be given too much weight, he says in the podcast KieftJansenEgmondGijp. He indicates that he is not looking for credits for predecessor Heitinga, who has now been fired from Ajax.

“I don’t really need that, but I wouldn’t overvalue it now either,” said the well-known Dutch player’s agent. ‘I wouldn’t go too far with the Grim effect. That’s going a bit far. Ajax has to get points and you can continue to build from there.’

Of KNVB announced the referee for the NEC – Ajax match on Monday afternoon, as can be read on the website. Allard Lindhout will try to manage the match between the numbers three and four of the Eredivisie. The leader receives support on the sidelines from Rogier Honig and Johan Balder. Alex Bos will be the fourth official. Finally, Pol van Boekel and Patrick Inia are responsible for the video arbitration. The match starts on Saturday evening at 8 p.m.

Ajax is well represented in the Team of the Week Football International. The Amsterdam club won 2-0 against Feyenoord on Sunday afternoon and several players managed to excel. Such that the four players from Ajax received a place in the Team of the Week Football International has delivered. They are Ko Itakura, Lucas Rosa, Davy Klaassen and Mika Godts. Ajax is the purveyor of the VI Team of the Week for the first time in nine (!) months, as Ajax watcher Lentin Goodijk reports.

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Willem van Hanegem saw that Feyenoord fell short against Ajax. ‘Yes, Ajax has its back in its own sixteen. In Amsterdam they also think it’s a good idea at the moment to push the balls into the second ring. The pro-Ajax press even calls it “playing with courage”. Of course, that is not the case at all, but they can do it as they want,” the Feyenoord legend begins in his column in the Algemeen Dagblad.

Van Hanegem sees an effective way of playing at Ajax. ‘In the long term, this is not a way of playing that makes people happy, but necessity breaks laws for a while. And the other side is also: Feyenoord does try to attack, but what does that actually achieve? Van Persie had counted many chances, but then I was certainly just in the kitchen.’

‘Yes, Ueda was alone in front of the goalkeeper. And yes, Smal shot just wide once,” Van Hanegem lists a number of Feyenoord’s chances. ‘But Ajax also got a lot of chances, didn’t it?’ The former international also saw a positive point at Ajax. ‘That Sean Steur is a nice player, he played well at the age of 17. That is what Ajax should stand for. Training talents and letting them play.’

Henk Spaan saw Youri Regeer excel against Feyenoord. ‘In this Farioli variant of the Grimbal Regeer was able to excel in tactical and defensive areas’, his column begins Het Parool. ‘I myself mentioned Resink and once Proper, currently on the bench at NEC because of Sano and also El Karouani as possible “sixes”, but now I think: are they better than Regeer? No, right?’

Regeer has clearly made an impression on Spaan. ‘Against Qarabag, number 6, coincidentally or not his shirt number, immediately brought stability when he came on as a substitute and on Sunday afternoon (against Feyenoord, ed.) he was a silent force in the sweltering Arena. The unity in the team created unity in the stadium, or vice versa.’

Spaan saw even more highlights on Ajax’s side. ‘Gloukh played well, including a monumental solo, as did Steur who grew into the match after the first five minutes, Bouwman was a superior 18-year-old with effective rushes forward, Dolberg is the real Ajax striker, Itakura was good, as was Klaassen mentally and the spectators felt en masse as a confident twelfth man.’