As many Football fans around the world would well know, Ajax are renowned for turning youngsters through there academy, year upon year. Placing another unknown commodity in to the First Team line up. In recent years players such as Cristian Eriksen who have now moved on to Spurs and Gregory Van Der Wiel who is currently at French giants Paris Saint Germain.
But the name that has been boosted about or been thrown around in the papers is that of young Dutch U21 midfielder Davy Klaassen. Klaassen began his early stages of development in football playing for his local amateur side HVV de Zebra’s, where he developed further and further before joining HSV Wasmeer in 2003 after spending 4 years his local side. After spending just one year with HSV Wasmeer clearly impressing the scout that went to watch Davy, where he was then recruited by Ajax after a successful trail with the Dutch giants. Klasseen was then placed in the Academy to further develop some of his outstanding attributes, such as. His technical ability with the ball at his feet and how he can dribbling the ball with such dominance and power, he also has a fantastic first touch which allows him to dictate some phases of play for Ajax.
After signing for Ajax Davy was left to develop under the watchful eye of at that current time, Arsenal legend Dennis Bergkamp funny that being the player who recently Klaassen has been compared to. With Bergkamp’s former club said to be keeping an eye on the progress in which Davy is making. And where recently seen at his performance NAC Breda where Klaassen scored a marvelous hat-trick. It will most certainly be interesting to see if Davy will be include as a surprise player for Holland’s World Cup squad.
Davy has broke in to the Ajax first team set up under Frank De Boer, with some outstanding performance somewhat keeping him in the squad. Klaassen has played only 15 times for Ajax but scoring in 10 of those occasions, with the experience head of Siem De Jong helping the progression of the player in the centre of the pitch.
Take a look at Klaassen’s hat-trick >>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDhq1er35qc
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