2023-09-26 07:05:06
Once a giant of European football, Ajax Amsterdam is today plunged into one of the most serious crises in its 123-year history, with a fourteenth place in the league, managers sacked and supporters unleashed.
The “Classic” at home once morest Feyenoord Rotterdam was definitively interrupted on Sunday by the referee in the 55th minute, while the visitors were leading 3-0, smoke bombs and fireworks having been thrown onto the pitch by fans of the Ajax.
They then broke down the entrance to the field and fought with mounted riot police, who were forced to respond with tear gas.
“The club is on fire“, headlined the supporters’ association’s website, describing the stoppage of Sunday’s match once morest arch-rivals Feyenoord as “a low point in the crisis” which shakes the club crowned 36 times champion of the Netherlands.
We must in fact go back to the 1964/1965 financial year, when the icon of the club Johan Cruyff had just joined the Ajax youth team, only to find a worse start to the season.
The team, which has only won one match in the Eredivisie so far, is already ten points behind leaders PSV Eindhoven.
For the daily NRC, this meeting once morest Feyenoord “symbolized the existential crisis in which Ajax finds itself“.
In the Europa League, the coach’s players Maurice Steijnappointed in June, conceded a draw once morest Marseille (3-3), another club in the grip of a major crisis, and will have a hard time getting out of their group, which also includes Brighton, currently 3rd in the Premier League.
In the wake of the fiasco experienced on Sunday, the club announced the departure “with immediate effect” from the director of football Sven Mislintat.
For the supporters association, “it is clear that instability within the club reigns not only on the field but also on the management side“.
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