03 Aug 2005: Ajax - FC Omniworld

[Kowalczyk]

Wednesday 03 August: the traditional Open Day at De Toekomst. My personal advice: skip all the kids' stuff early on the day at De Toekomst, but make sure you're at the ArenA (free admission!) by 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Two friendlies will be played there:

14.00 CET: Young Ajax vs AFC
15.30 CET: Ajax-1 vs FC Omniworld

For your information: AFC are one of the Amsterdam clubs in the Hoofdklasse of amateur football. They're known as the 'elite club' from Amsterdam-South (DWV, for example, are very much a working class club).

FC Omniworld are, as you know, Ajax's new 'technical partners'. See the news report on Ajax USA:
http://www.ajax-usa.com/news/2004-2005/ ... world.html

They will make their début in professional football (First Division) this season.

These two games will probably not be 'official', as in 2 x 45 minutes. They might be 2 x 30 minute games or something like that, but what the hey? A few hours of free Ajax football on a beautiful summer day - not a bad idea.

The Omniworld game will be Ajax's very last friendly. After that it will be for real, starting with the Johan Cruyff Shield (Dutch Super Cup) game against PSV on Friday 05 August.

K.

[Kowalczyk]

A few hours of free Ajax football on a beautiful summer day - not a bad idea!

I may have to correct this statement... :sad:

K.

[carcajou]

A few hours of free Ajax football on a beautiful summer day - not a bad idea!

I may have to correct this statement... :sad:

K.

Closer to the reality would be : Paying crap football under the classical greyish Fall Dutch sky, slitting your veins because your team makes you want to :D :D

[The Purple Cow]

"slitting your veins because your team makes you want to..."

Remember to slit along the length of the veins, rather than across them.

Also if you hold your wrists under luke-warm running water, this will prevent clotting, and thus hasten your death.

Hope this helps ...

[Kowalczyk]

Ladies and gentlemen, about half an hour ago the gates of De Toekomst have opened. The Ajax Open Day 2005 has started and my God, am I glad that I'm not there... Check back to Ajax USA later today for a match report of the Omniworld friendly, which will also contain a few paragraphs on the rest of the Open Day.

K.

[bluedaddy19]

Ladies and gentlemen, about half an hour ago the gates of De Toekomst have opened. The Ajax Open Day 2005 has started and my God, am I glad that I'm not there... Check back to Ajax USA later today for a match report of the Omniworld friendly, which will also contain a few paragraphs on the rest of the Open Day.

K.

are we meeting up before the friendlies?

[Kowalczyk]

are we meeting up before the friendlies?

I will have to skip 'em, I'm afraid... I'm just too busy. Working my balls off at the moment...

K.

[Kowalczyk]

It's 16:05 already and SE6 Ajacied has just texted me that the game between Ajax and FC Omniworld has not started yet. No idea what's going on.

The game between Young Ajax and AFC ended perfectly on time: just before 15:30 after 60 minutes of football. Final score: 2-0 to Young Ajax.

K.

[Kowalczyk]

Update from SE6 Ajacied...

Lindenbergh off injured in the 14th minute (nothing serious, he thinks). Boukhari replaced him. While he was texting me that Ajax scored - and he missed it! :D

1-0 after 18 minutes, scorer as yet unknown. X'D

K.

[Kowalczyk]

That's more like it: two goals in one text from SE6 Ajacied:

25' 2-0 Yannis (his hero!)
28' 3-0 De Ridder

Must be the half-time score!

K.

[Kowalczyk]

Some thoughts on this 'game' (was it a game? more like a public training...)

http://www.ajax-usa.com/matches/m05-06/ ... world.html

K.