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Legend Cruyff returns to boost Ajax
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Johan Cruyff is returning to Ajax, the club he propelled to three straight European Cup victories in the 1970s, to help improve the ailing team''s performance.
In a statement released on Wednesday, Ajax said 60-year-old Cruyff would "give form to the technical side of Ajax''s football policy."
The club did not announce what official position -- if any -- Cruyff would hold, saying it would hold further meetings to discuss his new role.
Cruyff insisted he will not be taking up any full-time post at the club where he made his name in two spells as a player and then as coach from 1985-88.
"I will not become either sporting director, president or coach," said Cruyff, who was the fulcrum of the great Dutch side that reached the 1974 World Cup final where they lost to the then West Germany.
"I am simply going to reorganise the club, change it for the better.
"Ajax is my club and it hurts me when the club is doing badly, when it is not competing in the Champions League. I am going to help it get better."
On Monday in a regular column for top-selling Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, Cruyff lamented the fact that nobody at Ajax had sought his advice.
"Nobody has ever -- and I mean ever -- said: ''You fix it.'' They don''t dare ask," Cruyff wrote. "Because if I have to do it, I will fix it, but I''ll do it in a way many people won''t like. That''s why they keep me at arm''s length."
The decision to call in Cruyff''s help comes as the storied club is in the midst of a slump that this season saw it crash out of the Champions League in the qualifying round to Slavia Prague, then lose to Dynamo Zagreb in the UEFA Cup.
The four-time European champion has not won a European title since the 1995 Champions League and has not won the Dutch league since 2004.
The statement also follows a critical internal report published at the weekend that harshly criticized the Ajax board of directors and its performance in recent years.
After a crisis meeting to discuss the report on Tuesday night, the board, including chairman John Jaakke, agreed to quit by the end of the season to make way for a new business model at the club.
The return of Cruyff immediately led to speculation that his good friend and current Netherlands coach Marco van Basten would be appointed Ajax coach next season. Van Basten has already announced he will leave the national post after the European Championships in the summer.
Cruyff, who lives in Spain, had been mentioned as a possible replacement for Barcelona coach Frank Rijkaard if he is forced to quit, but in an indication of his high regard for Van Basten this week suggested the Netherlands coach would be an ideal successor.
"Van Basten also loves football and the same qualities as well as winning in a certain way," Cruyff said. "As a player he played for some great teams and would not be overawed at all."
Cruyff was named European Footballer of the Year three times in the early 1970s. After he retired from playing in 1984, Cruijff became manager of Ajax and later FC Barcelona

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Van Basten offers Bergkamp trainee post
Amsterdam, 10 apr 2008
Dennis Bergkamp will return to Ajax. The former pro has been asked by Marco van Basten to do a traineeship with the club. ,,I think that Dennis can make players betterâ?, Van Basten said.
When next head coach Marco van Basten heard that Bergkamp had registered for the shortened course coach professsional football, he offered him a trainee post.
Van Basten: ,,I called Dennis a few weeks ago, because I wanted to know how he was doing and if he would want to do something for Ajax, in whatever capacity. It is important to work with as much quality as possible with Ajax and it is obvious that Dennis has qualities. In our conversation, Dennis said that he would come to Holland to take the coaching course. Part of that course is that the participants enter a traineeship. I offered him a trainee post and he was very interested. I hope and expect that this will be good for Ajax and for Dennis. I think he can make players better. His presence will have an impact on the team. For Ajax as a whole it is also good that someone of Dennis'' stature is involved with the club. At Ajax, Dennis can discover how he likes it to be on the pitch in a different role.â?
Bergkamp is a product of the Ajax youth academy. The now 38-year old former player entered the academy at age 12 and made his debut in Ajax 1 on 14 December 1986. In his time at Ajax he won the European Cup Winners'' Cup, the UEFA Cup, two Dutch FA Cups and one national title. He scored 103 goals in 185 league matches for Ajax.
Bergkamp went from Ajax to Inter in the summer of 1993. He joined Arsenal two seasons later and ended his career there with a testimonial against Ajax in 2006.

Bergkamp Back To Football ?" And Ajax

Almost two years after hanging up his boots, it seems that the great Dennis Bergkamp has had a change of heart concerning his future, after been offered a coaching job at former club, Ajax.
Arguably one of the very best Dutch footballers of his generation, Bergkamp quit football at Arsenal by the end of the 2005-?T06 season. Although he then insisted he would not become a coach and even rejected an offer to serve as a scout for the Londoners, it looks like hê?Ts finally reconsidered.
A top player?Ts privilege
Next month the former international attacking midfielder, now at the age of 38, will start attending an intensive course of lessons in Amsterdam specially set up by the KNVB to prepare former top players to obtain a professional coaching diploma, should he of course pass the admission examination first. The legendary Johan Cruijff has graduated from the same course.
And if all goes well, he will have the chance of spending some time at Ajax once again, as his former teammate Marco van Basten has already offered him a traineeship.

Agent confirms
?oObviously his registration is already sufficient for anyone to draw a conclusion. Dennis will do the course, spend that training period at Ajax and then take it from there.? Bergkamp?Ts agent, Rob Jansen, told the online version of Voetbal International magazine.
A product of the world famous Ajax academy, Bergkamp had started his footballing career as a striker. In fact, he was hailed as the ideal successor of Van Basten when the latter moved to Milan. ?oI called Dennis a couple of weeks ago, because I wanted to know how he was doing and if he would want to do something for Ajax, in whatever capacity. It is important to work with as much quality as possible with Ajax and it is obvious that Dennis has qualities,? the next Ajax boss told the club?Ts official website.
?oIn our conversation, Dennis said that he would come to the Netherlands to take the coaching course. Participants have to enter a traineeship, so I offered him a trainee post and he was very interested.?
?oHe can improve players?
?oI hope and expect that this will be good for both the club and Dennis. I think he can make players better. His presence will have an impact on the team. For Ajax as a whole it is also good that someone of Dennis?T stature is involved. At Ajax, Dennis can discover how he likes it to be on the pitch in a different role.?
The only thing that has yet to be decided is the exact duration of the traineeship. The former Internazionale ace has been spending time with his family at their home in Hertfordshire, England, playing golf and travelling a lot since he quit football, but recently told Sportweek magazine that ?oBeing out of the game is beginning to itch.?
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And although he did spend seven years at Ajax, he spent another 11 at Arsenal. So it will come as no wonder that several British bookmakers are already tipping him as a possible Arsène Wenger successor sometime in the future.
Some British media, including The Times, even suggest that Bergkamp will be attending lessons in London, under the French master, and not in the Netherlands.
During his illustrious two-decade career, Dennis ?oThe Menacê? Bergkamp won 17 trophies, including the former European Cup Winners?T Cup and twice the UEFA Cup, as well as 13 individual awards.

After 30 years, the truth behind Cruyff''s World Cup absence
For three decades, it has been one of the most enduring mysteries in world football. Why did Johan Cruyff, widely regarded as one of the three greatest players ever, decide that he would not play for Holland in the 1978 World Cup finals in Argentina? The Dutch reached the final - despite being beaten by Scotland in the group stages - but lost 3-1 to the hosts, and many blamed Cruyff''s absence for their failure to lift the trophy.
At the time, speculation over the reasons for his decision was rife. It was claimed he had fallen out with the Dutch football association over sponsorship. Or maybe he objected to Argentina''s rightwing military junta.
Now 30 years on, Cruyff has finally broken his silence to reveal the real reason for his no-show on football''s biggest stage.
The former Ajax and Barcelona player has revealed that he and his family had been the victims of a kidnap attempt a few months before the tournament.
He said several criminals entered his house in Barcelona at night and tied him and his family up at gunpoint.
The experience changed his attitude to life and was part of the reason he decided not to play in the World Cup.
In an interview with Catalunya Radio, Cruyff said: "You should know that I had problems at the end of my career as a player here and I don''t know if you know that someone [put] a rifle at my head and tied me up and tied up my wife in front of the children at our flat in Barcelona."
The Dutch superstar managed to escape and the kidnap attempt was foiled. But Cruyff said it changed his outlook on life.
"The children were going to school accompanied by the police. The police slept in our house for three or four months. I was going to matches with a bodyguard," he said.
"All these things change your point of view towards many things. There are moments in life in which there are other values.
"We wanted to stop this and be a little more sensible. It was the moment to leave football and I couldn''t play in the World Cup after this."
He was living at the time with his wife, Danny Coster, and their three children in Barcelona when the kidnap attempt happened at the end of 1977.
After he announced that he would not be attending the 1978 World Cup, Cruyff''s wife was blamed by some fans for putting him off playing. But in the radio interview, he said he wanted to put a stop to these rumours, which have surfaced again in a recently published book by another former Barca player, Carles Rexach.
The book claimed Cruyff was influenced by his wife and their children in all his decisions.
In Holland, there is still a lingering belief that if Cruyff had played in the 1978 World Cup finals, Holland may have come home with the coveted trophy. They have never come as close since.
Marteen Wijffels, a Dutch football journalist, said: "If he had played we could have won the World Cup. He would have made us stronger. I think people were very disappointed at the time he did not go."
But last night, Archie Gemmill, whose mazy run to score the winning goal for Scotland in their pyrrhic victory over the Dutch at the group stage is the stuff of Scottish folklore, insisted Cruyff''s presence would have made little difference in that match at least.
"If he had played, it would not have made a blind bit of difference. Maybe we would have beaten them 7-2 instead of 3-2. We won the game, and that is it."
Cruyff enjoyed a glittering footballing career. He was first selected to play for Ajax at the age of 17 and went on to win three European Cups with the Dutch side.
He was a star at the 1974 World Cup for Holland even though they lost the final to West Germany.
He later played for Barcelona before returning as manager, leading the club to the European Cup in 1992. He was voted European Footballer of the Year, three times during the 1970s.
Graham Hunter, a Barcelona-based football commentator, said: "As a footballer, Cruyff was elegant, visionary and skilled beyond measure. He ranks third among the best footballers ever, after Pele and Maradona."
Cruyff, 60, declined to say if the kidnap attempt was one of the reasons why he decided to leave Barcelona in 1978.
But his spokesman, Joan Patsi, confirmed Cruyff''s comments. "Johan had asked police for protection for sometime before this as he had been receiving threats. It is true this happened," he said.
"Another reason he decided not to go to the World Cup was he did not feel he was at his best and you have to be 100%."
In 1981 another Barca star, the Spain forward Quini, was kidnapped and held to ransom until freed by police after a month.
Backstory
Kidnapping for ransom or political gain has become such a universal agony that it is easy to forget that 30 years ago it was the world''s rich nations that suffered most. In the 1970s, the proliferation of leftwing guerrilla groups from the US to Germany, Spain and Italy determined to wage war on wealth, capitalism and the established political order left a trail of victims and instilled fear among the rich and famous that anyone was a target. Patty Hearst, an American newspaper heiress was seized in 1974 by urban guerrillas known as the Symbionese Liberation Army and went on to join her captors. Peter Lorenz, a conservative candidate for mayor of Berlin, was abducted and freed in 1975. Hanns Martin Schleyer a German industrialist, was kidnapped in 1977, held for 43 days while ransom demands were made, and ultimately murdered. The Red Army Faction behind the abduction also counted leading banker Alfred Herrhausen and Karl Heinz Beckurts among its victims. In Italy the communist Red Brigades kidnapped Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro. He was killed after a 55-day standoff. Spain was less acutely affected, though Eta and a shadowy leftwing group known as Grapo also resorted to abductions for political gain. Sports stars and athletes were rarely targeted, though the hostage taking at the Munich Olympics in 1972, which resulted in the deaths of 11 Israeli athletes, arguably set the chilling standards for the next decade. As the tactics migrated, footballers found themselves vulnerable in South America, as family members fell prey to kidnapping for ransom.

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UEFA supports Dutch goal decision
by Mark Chaplin from Basel
UEFA has emphasised that the goal scored by Netherlands striker Ruud van Nistelrooy in last night''s UEFA EURO 2008õ"Â match against Italy in Berne was valid, and that referee Peter Frảjdfeldt acted correctly in awarding it.
Not offside
UEFA General Secretary David Taylor was reacting to claims from some quarters that Van Nistelrooy was standing in an offside position when he scored the first of the Netherlands'' goals in their 3-0 win. "I would like to take the opportunity to explain and emphasise that the goal was correctly awarded by the referee team," he said. "I think there''s a lack of understanding among the general football public, and I think it''s understandable because this was an unusual situation. The player was not offside, because, in ad***ion to the Italian goalkeeper, there was another Italian player in front of the goalscorer. Even though that other Italian player at the time had actually fallen off the pitch, his position was still relevant for the purposes of the offside law."
Still involved
The starting point, said Mr Taylor, is the Laws of the Game õ?" Law 11 õ?" which deal with offside, whereby a player is in an offside position if he is nearer to his opponents'' goalline than both the ball and the second-last opponent. "There need to be two defenders involved," the UEFA General Secretary said. "If you think back to the situation, the first is the goalkeeper, and the second is the defender who, because of his momentum, actually had left the field of play. But this defender was still deemed to be part of the game. Therefore he is taken into consideration as one of the last two opponents. As a result, Ruud van Nistelrooy was not nearer to the opponents'' goal than the second-last defender and, therefore, could not be in an offside position.
Rare incident
"This is a widely-known interpretation of the offside law among referees that is not generally known by the wider football public," he continued. "Incidents like this are very unusual õ?" although I''m informed that there was an incident like this about a month ago in a Swiss Super League match between FC Sion and FC Basel 1893. [It was] initially suggested that this [goal] was a mistake by the referee in terms of the offside law õ?" the commentator later apologised publicly, as he didn''t realise that this was the correct application of the law."
Law applied
Mr Taylor concluded: "So let''s be clear õ?" the referees'' team applied the law in the correct manner. If we did not have this interpretation of the player being off the pitch then what could happen is that the defending team could use the tactic of stepping off the pitch deliberately to play players offside, and that clearly is unacceptable. The most simple and practical interpretation of the law in this instance is the one that is adopted by referees throughout the world õ?" that is that unless you have permission from the referee to be off the pitch, you are deemed to be on it and deemed to be part of the game. That is why the Italian defender, even though his momentum had taken him off the pitch, was still deemed to be part of the game, and therefore the attacking player put the ball into the net, and it was a valid goal. The law in this place was applied absolutely correctly."