da apostebet： Former Ajax and Holland great Johan Cruyff has returned to the Dutch club in an advisory capacity.
da supremo： Ajax, who are third on the Eredivisie table and a mere three points from leaders PSV Eindhoven, have set up three ‘sounding board’ groups in an effort to help them recapture their world-beating glory.
Cruyff, who won eight league titles and three European Cups with Ajax as a player, will serve as a technical advisor.
The other boards will focus on financial and association matters.
The former Holland international also led Ajax to four league titles, a Cup Winners’ Cup and a European Cup as a manager before leaving Amsterdam Arena in 1988, and has since been critical of the club’s move away from attacking, technical football.
Ajax are also believed to be discussing the possibility of expanding Cruyff’s role into the future, with the aim of ending their decade-long European trophy drought.
Ajax’s last international title was the 1995 Champions League, won over AC Milan in Vienna.
Cruyff was famously discovered by Ajax as a teenager kicking a football in the streets of Amsterdam.
He is equally revered at Barcelona, where he won the 1974 La Liga crown as a player and guided the Catalan club to four Spanish titles and their first European Cup as a coach.