The Champions League season is starting again this week and since my favourite club Ajax are playing Real Madrid in Madrid this week it’s time to look back on one of my favourite matches ever, from the 1995/1996 season.
22 November 1995, Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid
1995, Ajax won the Champions League, European Super Cup, World Cup for club teams and what not. 1994/1995 was one the most succesful seasons in the club’s proud history but probably Ajax’s best ever match was in the season after, against Real Madrid. In Madrid.
I still remember the match, even though I was only 7 at the time. I was in the car with my parents, brother and sister as we came home from a holiday or something and thus listened to the first half of the match via the radio.
Patrick Kluivert scored the opening goal but for still unknown reasons the referee disallowed the goal. Later in the first half Ajax scored another goal (Litmanen’s free kick was clearly a goal) but neither the referee and the linesmen noticed it. 0-0 at half-time. In the second half two brilliant attacks are enough to humiliate the biggest club on earth in their own stadium, 0-2. After the final whistle the Ajax players received a standing ovation from the shocked Real Madrid audience.
Untill this day videos of this match are being used in Real Madrid’s youth academy, to show the youngsters how football should be played.
Jorge Valdano, Real Madrid’s manager at the time, said after the match: “Ajax are not just the team of the nineties, they are approaching football Utopia. Their concept of the game is exquisite yet they have a physical superiority as well. They are Beauty and the Beast.”
Tags: 1995, afc ajax, champions league, estadio santiago bernabeu, football, jari litmanen, patrick kluivert, real madrid
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