The 1988–89 season saw Dennis Bergkamp, a young forward who had first appeared under Cruyff in 1986, establish himself as a regular goalscorer for Ajax. Despite these losses, Ajax reached a second consecutive Cup Winners’ Cup final in 1988, where they lost to Belgian club KV Mechelen. After this, Cruyff left the club to become manager of Barcelona and Rijkaard and van Basten were sold to Sporting CP and Milan respectively. The following season, Ajax again lost out on the Eredivisie title to PSV, but won the European Cup Winners’ Cup, its first continental trophy in 14 years. After Cruyff’s sale to rivals Feyenoord in 1983, van Basten became Ajax’s key player, top scoring in the Eredivisie for four seasons between 1983–84 and 1986–87.
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The only thing left of the old stadium are the letters “AJAX”, which nowadays is in place on the façade of the entrance at the Johan Cruyff Arena. During the 2008–09 season, ground staff introduced an artificial lighting system that finally reduced this problem considerably. For notable European and national fixtures, the club would often play at the Olympic Stadium, which could accommodate about twice the number of spectators. It was designed by architect and Ajax-member Daan Roodenburgh, who had also designed the club’s first stadium. Eddie van Schaik heads the organization as coach and consultant, introducing the Ajax football philosophy at the andrew tate merch shop various football training camps of the country. The offices are based in Nea Smyrni, Attica, with the main training facility located on the island of Corfu, hosting a total of 15 football youth academies throughout Greece and Cyprus.
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The team also won its first European Cup since its 1970s era, defeating Milan in the 1995 UEFA Champions League final 1–0, with the winning goal scored by 18-year-old Patrick Kluivert. The team regained the Dutch championship in 1993–94, and won it again in 1994–95 and 1995–96 to become the first Ajax side to win three back-to-back championships since 1968. Under the management of Louis van Gaal, Ajax won the UEFA Cup in 1992 to become the second club, after Juventus, to have won all three major European club competitions.
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Both teams have fanatic supporters, and clashes off the pitch are more often the rule than the exception. Although the rivalry is more felt on the Utrecht side than with Ajax, matchups between the two sides are often quite intense. Ajax have several other rivalries, although in most cases the sentiment is mostly felt by the opposition and is more directed towards Ajax, with one of them being Utrecht. When technical director Martin van Geel left AZ for Ajax in 2006, AZ director Dirk Scheringa nl banned him from the club’s stadium. AZ coach Gertjan Verbeek took his players off the pitch in protest, following which the match was definitively abandoned. An Ajax supporter ran onto the pitch and attacked AZ goalkeeper Esteban Alvarado, who defended himself by kicking the pitch invader twice and received a straight red card from referee Bas Nijhuis.
