When I was a very young man, moving from pre-teen to teen status, there wasn't a better team in the world than the Dutch National Team. Ruud Gullit! Marco Van Basten! Etc! They never actually won anything of course.
It was a time when the premier Dutch League (the Eredivisie) had teams that could challenge the powers, and even beckoned back to a time when the Amsterdam team of choice, Ajax (pronounced Eye-yaks) was the premier club of Europe. If you asked my 15 year old self what my favorite soccer club was, I would have said Ajax, without a moment's hesitation.
So I am very excited to see Marco Van Basten getting a four year deal to turn around this once proud franchise. Also exciting, unofficial Van Basten confidante Johann Cruyff promising to do whatever he can to help the turn around.
Why is it exciting? Because if Cruyff can teach people to do what he did, then that team gets black magic on their side. And because Marco Van Basten is fucking Marco Van Basten:
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