Eleven Ajax players called to World Cup squad: final line-up announced

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Eleven Ajax players have been called up for the World Cup being staged in Qatar from Sunday, 20 November. Monday saw all the World Cup squads finally announced. Seven Ajax players will play for the Orange national team; Edson Álvarez and Jorge Sánchez have been selected for Mexico, Dusan Tadic will represent Serbia and Mohammed Kudus will play in the World Cup for Ghana.

Date: 21.11.2022

Photographer: AFC Ajax

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Of the Ajax players seeing action, the Dutch squad is the first to kick off. They will face Ecuador on 21 November. Up next is Mexico. They face Poland on Tuesday, 22 November. On Thursday, 24 November, Tadic will play for Serbia against Brazil. And a few hours earlier that day, Kudus will appear for Ghana against Portugal.

See below how the group stage looks for Ajax players:

Netherlands (Steven Berghuis, Daley Blind, Steven Bergwijn, Davy Klaassen, Jurriën Timber, Remko Pasveer, Kenneth Taylor)
Senegal – Netherlands (Monday 21 November 2022, 5pm)
Netherlands – Ecuador (Friday 25 November 2022, 5pm)
Netherlands – Qatar (Tuesday 29 November 4pm)

Mexico (Edson Álvarez, Jorge Sánchez)
Mexico – Poland (Tuesday 22 November, 5pm)
Argentina – Mexico (Saturday 26 November, 8pm)
Saudi Arabia – Mexico (Wednesday 30 November, 8pm)

Serbia (Dusan Tadic)
Brazil – Serbia (Thursday 24 November 8pm)
Cameroon – Serbia (Monday 28 November 11pm)
Serbia – Switzerland (Friday 2 December, 8pm)

Ghana (Mohammed Kudus)
Portugal – Ghana (Thursday 24 November, 5pm)
South Korea – Ghana (Monday 28 November, 2pm)
Ghana – Uruguay (Friday 2 December 4pm)

Worldcup Vierkant V2

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