Johan Cruijff elected to Ajax board

Johan Cruijff has been elected to the new supervisory board at Amsterdam football club Ajax, but will have to stop writing about the club in his weekly newspaper column, the Volkskrant reports on Monday.


Cruijff was not at the shareholders’ meeting where the vote was taken and was not elected unanimously, the paper says.
Former Ajax player Edgar Davids was also elected to the board, alongside Steven ten Have, Marjan Olfers and Paul Romer. They will all serve a five year term.
Steven ten Have is a professor of strategy at Amsterdam’s VU university and tipped as new board chairman. Romer is head of public broadcasting group NTR and Olfers is a lawyer specialising in sport and government regulation.
Ajax’s management and supervisory board and general director all stood down after refusing to implement a plan to improve technical standards at the club drawn up by Cruijff, who has been very critical of the club’s performance.
In the past, Cruijff has used his column in the Telegraaf to criticise Ajax and its management.

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