... says a guy who sings "hand in hand, comrades" with 40,000 fellow F-word supporters every two weeks.Steef schreef:There's that homo-erotic connection again between Ajax players and its fans.
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Welcome to our Home Dave the Mac.Dave the mac schreef: Hi - let's see if I have any of this right. Somewhat of a unusual site (for me - I'm no techie) so I've no idea if this is a good place to start. I'll have a go however and see what happens. Keeping it short in case I've got it all wrong.
Well then, a little bit about me: Without a doubt, well now that I think about it I'm having doubts, I'm the biggest Ajax fan in my hometown of Seattle. We used to have a pretty good club here in the old NASL days...which may tell you how old I am. All of our good players were from oversea's and started to follow them in our offseason. Then the 1974 World Cup came round and got interested in the Dutch team. By the time the next WC came round in 78' I was hooked and knew most of the players and got to see the Final Live. Which was no small feat in those days!
Anyway, things snowballed and I got to see Ajax play in Vancouver, Canada on Sunday May 22nd 1984 at 7:30 PM. (I still have the ticket stub). I got to see a lot of Dutch players. Rudd Krol played for Vancouver for a year or two and of course got to see the great man Johan Cruyff play several times.
Well I could go on and on, it's actually a fascinating story, but am leaving shortly to go watch Netherlands vs Czech R. play at the only pub in town that shows such stuff.
I love Ajax - I've been to New York (New Jersey actually) to see Ajax - met Jimbo - and on the first Ajax USA trip to Amsterdam - then once again on my own, Meno was so kind to get me a ticket so I could stand in the F-Side with him and his mates! Thanks again for that. I hope to add some more posts soon.
As Kowalczyk has already explained the Bobby Haarms Award is kind of a "cheer up mate" award to the player who has struggled the most with injuries. I had great expectations for Ole when he first came to the club. If I remember right, he even scored in one of his first appearances. The general glassiness of his knees unfortunately meant that the B.A. award was his biggest achievement during his stay with Ajax. Speaking of, Tobiasen is rumored to be moving back to the Eresdivisie (or German 2nd div) after a some years in the Danish league. His game is NOT what it was used to be.SE6Ajacied schreef:Welcome afckeeper95, Always good to have another country on board Ajax-wise, I don't think we had any Danes before. You've got me very confused though, what does "Tobiasen's Ajax memorabilia: The Bobby Haarms Award (x3)" mean????
Welcome Julius, your English is fine mate, a lot better than my Greek or Albanian which is the only score that I look at :xyxthumbs:Julius schreef:
p.s sorry if my english are not good enough :D
Welcome mate, hope you feel at home ;)Julius schreef:i have already made a kind of introducion in another topic and i thank Asg(smth strange-follows) for showing me this topic in order to make a proper one.
Until 21 July i will be 23 years old . I currently sudy in Greece (Civil Engineering). As i've already told u, i was born in Albania and my first Total-futboll Holland memories are back in 1990 italian WC. From there and after i have been supporting them with all my heart no matter the results. A few years after that, Ajax concuisted my heart in the same way. I like very much the policy of this club it seems like it's always strugling to be on the top. Very significant with it's name just like the greek hero Ajax was in the past. We have the most talented academy in the whole World with 18 years old players that was the fear of whole Europe . I'm talking about the 94-95 Ch.L. I have read all the posts and i have been "spying" u guys until i decided to be registered in your nice forum.
If is anything u would like to know about me i will be pleased to answer u. :)
p.s sorry if my english are not good enough :D
I used to live in Athens. I really enjoyed it. Unfortunately I don't live there anymore. I never made it to Xanthi. Is it nice? Do you ever go to Skoda Xanthi matches?Julius schreef:lol Kalos sas vrika :). kolopolitexneio may i say. They r having apergies all the time and i missed my exam seson. Glad to know that someone speaks greek in here. I live in Xanthi currently studing at DUTH university. U?aveslacker schreef:Kalos Orizate Julius. Do you study at the Polytexneio?
well its a small town Xanthi u know, im happy here although. Sometimes i go to see their matches. Skoda is like Ajax, they have the most famous youth academy in Greece. This year they finished fourth.Maybe some Ajax scouts can come over here :D i would suggest their right full back. Fast, young and very good at set pieces.aveslacker schreef:I used to live in Athens. I really enjoyed it. Unfortunately I don't live there anymore. I never made it to Xanthi. Is it nice? Do you ever go to Skoda Xanthi matches?Julius schreef:lol Kalos sas vrika :). kolopolitexneio may i say. They r having apergies all the time and i missed my exam seson. Glad to know that someone speaks greek in here. I live in Xanthi currently studing at DUTH university. U?aveslacker schreef:Kalos Orizate Julius. Do you study at the Polytexneio?
To which SPL replied...Mr_Holte schreef:Just thought I would introduce myself.
My name's Mark, 21 from Coventry, UK. I have a season ticket in the Holte End at Villa Park, but I also follow Glasgow Rangers and Ajax. Rangers because I have family in Scotland who support them, so I go there about 3 or 4 times a season. And Ajax, I've always liked them ever since I was a little kid. Remembering some of the great players over the years, and it was the first non-british kit I ever had. But I have really started to watch them regularly since they played at Villa Park in this years UEFA Cup.
The fans were great, and on the night Ajax played some decent football.
Through a friend, I went to my 4th game at the ArenA on Sunday against AZ, taking up a place in VAK424. That place is crazy but I love it! Im hoping to now make a few trips each season.
Who on here is from the UK?
All the best.
Welcome to Ajax Talk, Mr. Holte!SPL schreef:welcome I am steve and I live in Worthing in Sussex. Pleased to see another english person on this site . Feel free to make your comments etc. At least you support an english team that actually has englishmen in the team.
You would want to die without Ajax and music, but your girlfriend is much more important to you???Kowalczyk schreef:Well, alright then...
My real name is Menno Pot, I am 30 years old, I live in Amsterdam and work as a music journalist and writer.
My family (my dad, especially) was not about sports at all, but more about sixties music, Amnesty International, Greenpeace and left wing politics. We never watched football when I was young. I got into football thanks to Martin, my cousin, who always watched football. I was a few years younger, thought it was cool and watched it with him.
Strange thing is: he was a PSV supporter, so for some reason I 'copied' the habit of watching football from him, but I picked my own club when I was six or seven years old. I remember adoring the jersey and, most importantly, players of PSV and Feyenoord all had moustaches and weird hair. They seemed old. Like uncles. The Ajax players were younger and cooler in my experience (Johnny van 't Schip was one of my first 'heroes'). They were like older brothers, boys next door. There was something irresistible about them that I instantly felt.
My first game in De Meer was a game against Go Ahead Eagles in early 1984 (3-1). I went to a few games a year at first (mostly with my uncle; never with my dad). By the time I was fifteen I spent my money on two things: records and tickets for Ajax games. In the 1991-1992 season I went on my first 'European' trips: two 'home' games in Düsseldorf (Ajax played there as a punishment for the 'bar incident' of 1989) and the away game at AA Ghent (0-0). I also saw all of the UEFA Cup home games that season.
The season thereafter (1992-1993) I received my 'Public Transit Year Subscription', which was free for students at the time. It made it a lot cheaper for me to go and see Ajax and I bought my first season ticket. Also, I went to almost every away game that season (which was easier at the time than it is now: hardly any combis).
I went to almost every domestic Ajax game (home and away) from 1992 to 1997. From 1997 to 1999 I saw the home fixtures only, because I was in the last years of my study and could hardly pay my rent, let alone tickets to Ajax away games... I started doing away games again in 1999-2000 and hardly missed one since. Since 2000 the number of European trips is on the increase also: I think I've seen 60% of all European Ajax away games since 2000 (including five Champions League away games in 2002-2003).
Ajax is not the most important thing in my life: my girlfriend's far more important and so are my close friends and family. As a general thing 'work' is also more important to me than Ajax (in a general sense, like having a job, and making sure it's something that I love). However, one specific job as such is definitely not more important to me than Ajax. I was fired twice so far because I went on a European Ajax trip and took a few days off without my boss' permission (I asked for it, he turned the request down; I went anyway). If Ajax play a European final or something and I know that I will be fired if I go to the game, I wouldn't need a split second to make up my mind: Ajax. Fuck that job. I'll find something else to do. I work for myself anyway; absolutely never for a boss or a company.
I always say that Ajax is the most important detail in my life. Along with music. If I couldn't listen to music anymore and couldn't go to gigs or Ajax games, I would want to die - and I'm afraid I seriously mean that.
K.