CRUYFF'S DEBUT, KEEGAN DEBUT, SEAGULL DEAD

Johan Cruyff, at 17 years old on November 15th 1964,  made his debut for Ajax, when they played GVAV and lost 1-3, although Johan scored the goal and the attendees quite liked what they saw. 

The next season, he totalled 25 goals as Ajax won the League and soon top coach, Rinus Michels built his revolutionary "Total Football" philosophy around the club which earned 14 trophies in seven years.

His playing career included: 

Total number of senior games		518	(goals 294)

 and for the Netherlands 48 apps/ 33 goals 1966-77

Ajax was the second-most successful European club of the 20th century. The club is one of five teams to have earned the right to keep the European Cup (as it was known then) and to wear a multiple-winner badge. In 1972, they completed the continental "treble" by winning the Eridivisie, KNVB Cup, and the European Cup, as it was then known. They also won the first (albeit unofficial) European Super Cup against Glasgow Rangers in January 1973. Ajax's also won international trophies such as the 1995 Intercontinental Cup, 1995 European Super Cup and the 1995 Champions' League, when they defeated Milan in the final; they lost the 1996 Champions' League Final on penalties to Juventus. In 1995, Ajax was crowned as World Team of the Year by World Soccer magazine.

Ajax is also one of four teams to win the continental treble and the Club World Cup in the same season/calendar year; this was achieved in the 1971–72 season. Ajax is one of five clubs to have won all three major UEFA club competitions. They have also won the Intercontinental Cup twice, the 1991-2 Uefa Cup, as well as the Karl Rappan Cup, a predecessor of the UEFA Intertoto in 1962. The club, Ajax, plays at the Johan Cruyff Arena, which opened as the Amsterdam ArenA in 1996 and was renamed in 2018. Throughout their history, Ajax have cultivated a reputation for scouting, spotting and developing young talent, and have remained focused on developing a youth system, something that coaches world wide admired (Total Football). 

Like Cruyff, Kevin Keegan became a bit of a super star and he was named European Footballer of the Year twice and it was TODAY that he made his debut in a World Cup qualifier versus Wales at Ninian Park which England won 0-1. Keegan scored his first goal for England six mnths later and he went on to become captain of his nation. Below his natioinal figures:

1972–1982	England	63 apps	goals 21

On this day in 1970 during a derby against Sparta Rotterdam, Feyenoord goalkeeper Eddy Treytel

launched a goal which hit a passing seagull and killed it. After the game, he  retrieved  the seagull from behind the goal, had it stuffed and planted it in the club's museum. Sparta claimed that the seagull was their property, since it was "shot" down over their stadium but then suggested that the museum "gull" was not "Treytel's gull" and biologists have been squawking over it since! 

Gull, Goal.