Ajax played a friendly against Telstar on Monday afternoon at the De Toekomst training complex. Thanks to goals from Oleksandr Zinchenko and Kian Fitz-Jim, the Amsterdam side won 2-0.
Ajax started the first half with the following line-up: Heerkens; Rosa, Itakura, Bouwman, Zinchenko; Mokio, Fitz-Jim, Gloukh; Berghuis, Konadu, Edvardsen.
After the break, Butera, Van de Pavert, Messori, Kalokoh, Acheampong, Teuwsen, Tomiyasu and Van der Lans came on.
Ajax picked up a point in the VriendenLoterij Eredivisie away match against AZ. Substitute Kian Fitz-Jim was decisive with a header in the very final phase of the game. As a result, the match in Alkmaar ended in a 1-1 draw.
Four youth players from Japan spent the past week and a half on trial at Ajax’s academy. Futa Takeno, Hiroto Matsuura, Jelani Ren McGhee and Yuito Kamo trained with Ajax U19 and also attended matches like Ajax – FC Volendam and attended Ajax’s last three matches against FC Volendam, Olympiakos and Excelsior.
Mariano Juan became the first Argentine to join Ajax after a youth tournament in Toulon, France, in 1996. Thirty years later, Maher Carrizo is the thirteenth Argentine player to make his way to Amsterdam. In this article, you can learn more about the nineteen-year-old winger, who on Tuesday put pen to paper on a four-and-a-half-year contract with Ajax.