Ajax Champions League 1995

The accomplished centre back had an excellent career and retired in 1999 having made over 370 appearances for ajax.

Ajax champions league 1995. Ajax are not just the team of the nineties they are approaching football utopia that was then real madrid coach jorge valdano s assessment following their bernabéu evisceration at the hands of. Players and the coach look back on that ma. The captain and experienced head of the ajax side in 1995 blind was excellent in the final. The tournament was won by juventus who beat defending champions ajax on penalties in the final for their first european cup since 1985 and their second overall.

It was milan s third consecutive uefa champions league final a feat which has since been matched in the champions league era by juventus between 1996 and 1998 and real madrid between 2016 and 2018 milan was also aiming to tie real madrid s record of having won the european cup uefa champions league six times. No other player has won the competition with three clubs and to. See how patrick kluivert made a dramatic impact after coming on as louis van gaal s ajax claimed glory in vienna. He would then be part of the side that lost to juventus a year later.

Clarence seedorf seedorf won the champions league with ajax in 1995 with real madrid in 1998 and with milan in 2003 and 2007. Ajax s victory over milan in the 1995 champions league final earned by that single prod from the 18 year old substitute may not have heralded an era of domination from the dutch side but its. The dutch side s stylish 4 1 win in the bernabeu to seal a 5 3 aggregate win evoked memories of the last of their teams to conquer europe. After 85 minutes the deadlock was broken when patrick kluivert aged 18 years a.

A special day in the ajax history. It was the only champions league title that juventus won in the 1990s despite reaching the next two finals and one of only three italian wins in the final. The 1995 96 uefa champions league was the 41st season of uefa s premier european club football tournament and the fourth since its rebranding as the uefa champions league.