Ajax Wereldclub, a wonderful book…

Sounds excellent. Do you know if there is an English version at all?

In any event, the photo begs me to throw out anoher quiz question: Who’s shirts are hanging out to dry? Obviously given the fact we don’t have an exact date but, Rinus, the shirt design etc are all clues that can at least put a possible date range to it.

So who wore 8, 14 and 15 for Ajax in this timeperiod?

Finn ?? Do you really need to know who wore No 14 for Ajax ??

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I’ll keep the quiz running a bit longer or until someone gets it right, even though Carlos is refusing to tell me who wore number 14

Obviously the genious JC wore the number 14. @Jan: Gerrie Muhren was a good guess, but he wore number 9. Van Dijk is also incorrect. So we are still left with number 15 and number 8. Who were they in the period we are looking at. It is actually possible to nail it pretty much to the exact season this photo must have been taken.

Tscheu La Ling?

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@Bart, nope.

I’ll give a hint, it was before La Ling and at Rinus first stint as Ajax coach.

You’d be surprised how little info there is on Ajax from 1965 :p Can’t seem to find a squad list. That said I’m guessing Piet Keizer and Wim Suurbier

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@Bart: Good guess, as they were both in the team in question. However, Wim Suurbier was number 3, Piet Keizer was number 11 (and captain).

Further hint: One of the two was a young and coming star that became a manager after his career ended and is currently managing in Europe.

The other never became a manager, and never played for Oranje in a World Cup.

That should be more than enough hints. We are looking for number 8 and 15. You guys seem to know what each Oranje and Ajax player ate for breakfast yesterday, so a little surprised no one has nailed this already

Mini correction: After further thinking, I’m not entirely sure on Keizer being the captain actually, it could also have been Vasovic. What I am sure about is that Keizer wore 11 though, so we still need 8 and 15.

in 71 velibor vasovic was the captain,and the game against pana was his last game. 15 – maybe johnny rep? or arnold muhren? 8 – blankenburg? hulshoff?

too many and not too many ideas…

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@ferenc: You are hitting the right team(s). At this time Muhren was 6, Johnny Rep was 16,Blankenburg was 12, Hulshoff was 13 (4 in his earlier days), and by the way 4 was Vasovic’s number.

Still need 8 and 15. You pretty much have listed the entire team by now from the possible period

stuy – suurbier,hulshoff,blankenburg,krol – haan,neeskens,gerrie muhren – rep (swart),cruijff,keizer

haan 8
swart 15

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We have a winner!!!

Ferenc is correct (which doesn’t surprise me ) ,although swart was 8 and Haan was 15 at the time.

This has to be a photo from either the 69-70 season (won the double) or 70-71 season (but Feyenoord won the league that year, so I am leaning towards 70 as Ajax was completely dominant that year. Double + won the league by a mile and a half. Jerseys with the small white collar, and in fact there were small adjustments but mainly in the front so hard to tell or I could have nailed it exactly. I’m big into jerseys Anyway only used late sixties and early seventies seasons, then it changed to small red collar. Michels became coach in 65, first year was a mediocre mid table, so my guess is we are looking at the tail end of his first stint at Ajax. The jerseys were very different in his second stint in 75, so that is out.

In addition the Tulips are in full bloom which means late March – May. This rules out 71-72 as Michels had by then already departed to Barca so I doubt there would be much washing of the shirts. Which means we are looking at spring 1970 or 1971.

What I do love though, is the mediculous hanging of the shirts to dry. All in a row. It is even like they are hanging in a 4-4-2 formation or something…

Looks like the lady was as organized as the general…

you’re right,Finn. michels was already at barcelona. so this ajax was something like this: stuy – suurbier,vasovic,hulshoff,krol – neeskens,cruijff,gerrie muhren – swart,van dijk,keizer. haan and blankerburg were subs,johnny rep was too young. krol got injured,and i think rijndeers (?) replaced him. or suurbier played left back,and neeskens went sometimes back to play right back.
what a team! but i’m a little bit proud because they guy who replaced michels was a hungarian,stefan kovacs. actually he had the roumanian citizenship but he was hungarian with a tipical hungarian name (it means smith).

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Finn/Ferenc – what great reading – you guys amaze me !! Just on a totally different note just read the story on Puskas who must have been one of the best yet one of the saddest tales of football history.

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