Ajax argues that because of his strength and the fighting he has done for the Greeks, including saving the ships from Hector, and driving him off with a massive rock, he deserves the armor.

Johan Cruijff played at Ajax between 1959 – 73 and 1981 – 83, winning 3 European Cups ; his # 14 is the only squad number Ajax has ever retired.

Ajax has also had a satellite club in the United States under the name Ajax America, until it filed for bankruptcy.

However, it has been suggested that Achilles speaks only to Phoenix and Ajax, ignoring Odysseus, to whose guile he bears a considerable dislike.

Supporters of the Dutch football team AFC Ajax met with Feyenoord supporters in what has come to be known as the " Battle of Beverwijk ".

Despite being from one of the traditional three large Dutch cities, it has not been able to match AFC Ajax, Feyenoord or PSV in terms of success in the Eredivisie or in European competition.

The series has portrayed different ways in which he met Duckman: saving his life three times while working at a bakery ; meeting at an airport before Ajax was born ; and the two having attended high school together.

It has been said that Ajax is the only member of the family to whom Duckman can truly relate.

This has caused confusion, as one of the population centres of the original township, Pickering Village, is now found in Ajax, along with its eponymous secondary school.

He was born in Ajax, Ontario, to Marg and Phil Jocz, and has an older sister named Jenn.

Amanra tells Ajax that Kastor has been tricked, and that they must find him.

During his club career he has represented Reipas, HJK, MyPa and Lahti in Finland, as well as Ajax, FC Barcelona, Liverpool, Hansa Rostock, Malmö FF and Fulham abroad.

Litmanen has the honour of being one of just three players presented in a special video featurette at the Ajax Museum.

Rijkaard has played for Ajax, Real Zaragoza and Milan, and represented his national side 73 times, scoring 10 goals.

Ajax — Pickering is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2011 by Conservative MP Chris Alexander.

While Buckingham was one of the first English managers to coach top European sides like Ajax Amsterdam and FC Barcelona, and has Johan Cruyff as one of his biggest fans, he remained largely unremembered in his native England.

Since 2007 de Boer has taken up a coaching role at his former club Ajax where he is in charge of the club's youth sector.

Through such appointment, Koeman has notably become the first man ever to serve as both player and head coach at all teams of the so-called " traditional big three " of Dutch football ( AFC Ajax, PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord itself ).

Vitesse ( French for speed ) has enjoyed some success in Eredivisie and featured in the UEFA Cup competition, but has never been considered a close competitor of the top three clubs of Netherlands football, namely PSV, Feyenoord, and Ajax.

Almost in the style of a speech balloon he has both players announce the numbers they cast with their dice — Ajax a three and Achilles a four.

In later traditions, this Ajax is called a son of Oileus and the nymph Rhene and is also mentioned among the suitors of Helen.

Pausanias also relates that a gigantic skeleton, its kneecap in diameter, appeared on the beach near Sigeion, on the Trojan coast ; these bones were identified as those of Ajax.

* Ajax ( mythology ), son of Telamon, ruler of Salamis and a hero in the Trojan War, also known as " Ajax the Great "

* Ajax Orlando Prospects, also known as Ajax America, an American soccer team from Orlando, Florida

* Aspen Mountain ( Colorado ), United States, also known as Ajax Mountain

* Kanichee Mine, Temagami, Ontario, Canada, also known as Ajax Mine

Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax (), also referred to as AFC Ajax, Ajax Amsterdam or simply Ajax ( after the legendary Greek hero ), is a professional football club from Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Cruijff departed prior to the second Cup Winners Cup final and with most of the 80's stars such as van Basten also leaving, Ajax once again declined.

Dutch national first-team players Ryan Babel, Wesley Sneijder, Rafael van der Vaart, Maarten Stekelenburg, Eljero Elia, André Ooijer, John Heitinga and Nigel de Jong had also came through the ranks at Ajax and all are now playing for top-flight clubs.

Ajax also regularly supplies the Dutch national youth teams with local talent.

:: 1973, 1995 *( Ajax also won in 1972, however, UEFA only sanctioned the UEFA Super Cup for the first time in 1973 so the 1972 edition was an unofficial one.

That victory meant Ajax had won every tournament ( 5 in total ) they entered that year, a feat Celtic achieved in 1967 ( with 6 trophies ) and Barcelona ( also 6 trophies ) repeated in 2009.

Ajax also hunted the Trojan flocks, both on Mount Ida and in the countryside.

The alternative term, telamones, also is derived from a later mythological hero, Telamon, one of the Argonauts, who was the father of Ajax.

Feyenoord also have a fierce rivalry abroad in Tottenham Hotspur, who following several violent clashes with the club coupled with a link to Ajax are not popular with the Rotterdam club.

Ajax is also the name of the escaped gorilla who appears in the short film Donald Duck and the Gorilla ( 1944 ).

This was due to both Dutch Cup finalists Ajax and PSV qualifying for the recently expanded Champions League.

The original Greek chorus sang its part in Greek drama, and fragments of works by Euripides ( Orestes ) and Sophocles ( Ajax ) are known from papyri.

Soon afterwards, Foscolo's tragedy of Ajax was presented, with little success, at Milan, and because of its supposed allusions to Napoleon, he was forced to move from Milan to Tuscany.

Built with an original capacity of 42, 000, it hosted its first game against Dutch team Ajax.

While the coup is commonly referred to as Operation Ajax after its CIA cryptonym, in Iran it is referred to as the 28 Mordad 1332 coup, after its date on the Iranian calendar.

In a March 1997 incident as the two teams met in the 1996 – 97 Champions League quarterfinals, Gil referred to Ajax Amsterdam, due to its many players of Surinamese origin, as FC Congo.

The Invision's team also continues to employ Ajax in its software.

: Ajax, Feyenoord, and PSV have been members of the Eredivisie since its formation in 1956.

AZ had the best defensive record in the Eredivisie and the second-best goalscoring record, behind Ajax, thanks to its offensive duo of league topscorer Mounir El Hamdaoui and Brazilian Ari.

Ajax accepted the penalties, and announced that it had given the fan a 30-year stadium ban and a lifetime ban from the club and its season ticket list.

The Ajax came standard with engineering and quality features that included a L-head Nash straight-six engine with a seven main bearing crankshaft, force-feed lubrication system, three-speed transmission, four-wheel brakes ( at that time unusual for a car of its price ), steel disc wheels, as well as mohair velvet upholstery and an electric clock.

The Ajax Six produced " genuine 60 mph " ( 97 km / h ) driving, and its features were not found on cars of this size and low price.

Anderlecht and Ajax Amsterdam on its defeat-less way to the semifinal, where it lost 1-3 on aggregate to eventual trophy winners Celtic F. C ..

Wouldham school celebrates this connection with history in many ways, its four sports teams being named after ships at the Battle of Trafalgar ( Victory, Ajax, Sovereign, Brittania ), students being assigned into a house named after one of four famous figures at Trafalgar, which they are able to earn merit points for, and by holding an annual event at the nearby church to commemorate Walter Burke.

Manager Martin Bader's professional and sometimes even spectacular work till spring 2007 ( the signing of former Ajax Amsterdam captain and Czech international Tomáš Galásek, for example, was greeted with enthusiasm ), as well head coach Hans Meyer's tactically modern understanding of football, helped Nuremberg to its most successful time in almost 40 years.

The hardware was Rogers but the drum shells were supplied by Ajax from its UK production.

It was at PSV where he led the team to its first ever European Cup triumph in 1988 ( and The Treble ) affirming the Eindhoven club's ranking as one of the three giants of Dutch football, alongside rivals Ajax and Feyenoord.

In 1994 Brazil won its 4th FIFA World Cup title in the United States and club teams AFC Ajax ( in 1995 ) and Manchester United F. C.

Ironically, Borie was a Philadelphian associated with the town of Manayunk ( now a Philadelphia neighborhood ), and one of the vessels that was never given back its original name was USS Manayunk, which permanently kept its new name of USS Ajax.

In 2003, it was given its current boundaries as described above, and Whitby-Oshawa was drawn out of Durham and Whitby — Ajax.