Toure: We want to emulate Ajax 1995

Written by Jonathan Chong on Monday, April 27, 2009

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Date	Time	C	Opponent	F	A	R	S
29 Apr	7:45 PM	CL	Manchester United (A)	0	1	Lost

Defender Kolo Touré is aiming to emulate the Ajax team of 1995 that won the European Cup with a relatively young and unknown team.

The Ivory Coast international was answering questions regarding the lack of star quality in the current Arsenal team, something similar with the Ajax team of 1995.

But Touré says that there is enough firepower to see them through against current champions Manchester United.

Touré said: "It's true that we lost a player like Thierry Henry, which is difficult, but Emmanuel Adebayor is playing really well.

"We lost a player like Robért Píres but we have samir Nasri. All those players have been replaced. think the good thing about this team is that we have a lot of young players who want to show they have the quality.

"I remember that Ajax were a team that nobody was expecting to win but they won and had a really young team as well. I think we can do that."

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Roy Ho

Posted on 28 Apr, 2009 at 12:47 AM - Reply

Toure's on drugs.

Ajax team of 95 had a great squad.

Van der Sar
Reizeger
Bogarde
Frank de Boer
Danny Blind
Ronald de Boer
Edgar Davids
Marc Overmars
Jari Litmanen
Clarence Seedorf
Patrick Kluivert.

And on their bench the backbone of the 94 world cup nigerian squad - Kanu, Oulida. Not to mention the evergreen Rijkaard, and Overmars.

That's a first class squad. No depth, but then they never got injured. Davids and Seedorf ran midfield, Litmanen played like Bergkamp and Lampard rolled into one, and Kluivert was like Eto'o. And when they needed it, Overmars and George were like Walcott and Henry on the wings, and Oulida was certainly up to scratch with the likes of modern day Flamini. More importantly, Danny Blind and Frank de Boer were rock solid ball playing defenders, and while the fullbacks were a little suspect, Ronald de Boer on the right and Seedorf on the left never lost a ball.

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