AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — Slumping in final place within the Dutch league, four-time European champion Ajax named former participant John van ‘t Schip as coach Monday for the remainder of a so-far calamitous season.
Ajax mentioned in a press release van ‘t Schip will likely be interim coach “earlier than stepping right into a operate in technical administration” in July.
The appointment got here someday after Ajax misplaced 5-2 to league-leading PSV Eindhoven and one week after coach Maurice Steijn was fired simply seven league video games right into a three-year contract.
Ajax’s solely league win was on the opening day in August and fan dysfunction compelled a house recreation in opposition to defending champion Feyenoord to be stopped and accomplished three days later as a 4-0 loss. The Dutch large is also final in its Europa League group with no win in three video games.
Van ‘t Schip’s earlier teaching job was with the Greece nationwide crew two years in the past. His assistant then, Michael Valkanis, rejoins him for the remainder of the season after leaving Hapoel Tel Aviv, Ajax mentioned.
Van ‘t Schip performed in midfield for Ajax for greater than a decade and was within the Netherlands squad that gained the 1988 European Championship.
He was an assistant coach to his long-time former teammate Marco van Basten with each the nationwide crew and Ajax from 2004 to 2009.
“John is an actual Ajax man,” chief government Jan van Halst mentioned in a press release, including “for the long run we see a unique technical function for him.”
Van ‘t Schip mentioned Ajax “wants to seek out the way in which up once more and I am glad to assist in that matter.”
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