Ajax Amsterdam News

Costa Rica and Uruguay waged a war of silence rather than words as they prepared for the first leg of their 2010 World Cup playoff at the Saprissa stadium on Saturday .

Italy will attempt to follow its blueprint from four years ago by starting off its World Cup preparations with a friendly victory over the Netherlands on Saturday.

Benni McCarthy is excited to be back. BACK IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT: Re-appointed Bafana Bafana coach Carlos Parreira, photographed shortly after his arrival back in the country yesterday Picture: DANIEL BORN He will be joining Bafana as they face Japan, and later Jamaica The prodigal son of South African football could hardly contain himself yesterday ...

FC Twente preserved their two-point lead at the top of the Eredivisie after beating free-scoring Ajax 1-0. Steve McClaren's side just about deserved the win given to them by Bryan Ruiz's solitary goal two minutes into the second half.

Dutch giants Ajax Amsterdam, Belgium club Anderlecht and Hapoel Tel Aviv on Thursday closed in on a place in the knock-out stage of the Europa League with good victories.

Mark van Bommel returned to the Netherlands squad Friday for the first time this season for friendlies against Italy and Paraguay.

Red cards dominated Thursday's action in the Europa League as several clubs ended their matches with just nine players after having two men sent off.

Ajax put themselves on the brink of qualification for the last 32 with a comfortable Europa League win away to nine-man Dinamo Zagreb.

When Luis SuA rez scored AFC Ajax's fifth goal in the 5-1 victory against Feyenoord on Sunday, the penalty was the forward's 16th league goal of what is shaping up to be a potentially record-breaking season for the Uruguayan international.

Former Netherlands international Johan Cruyff has been named coach of Catalonia, the autonomous Spanish community's football federation said on Monday.

Ajax moved within three points of Eredivisie leaders FC Twente with a 5-1 thrashing of nine-man Feyenoord.

Manchester United have joined the chase for Ajax's serial goal scorer Luis Suarez, according to a report in The Sunday Times this morning.

Photograph: Michael Kooren/Reuters The Dutch midfielder Edgar Davids will not be joining Leicester City , the Championship club have announced.

Ajax Amsterdam's Urby Emanuelson broke the hearts of second division Dordrecht by curling home a freekick in the final minute of extra time to secure a 2-1 win in their Dutch Cup third round tie on Thursday.

Q.P.R. v Leicester. Click here to bet. Leicester chairman Milan Mandaric has told Edgar Davids he must decide in the next 24 hours whether he wants to join the club.

Ajax came from behind to beat AZ Alkmaar and extend their unbeaten run to 14 matches.

FC Twente beat FC Groningen 4-0 on Sunday to stay top of the Dutch league and extend its unbeaten run to 11 games.

Uruguayan sources say Milan have held a new round of talks with the Dutch club and Suarez's minders about a January move.

NK Dinamo Zagreb haveA left the Amsterdam ArenA as winners twice before and coach Krunoslav JurA iA is determined to keep that fine record going at AFC Ajax on Thursday, saying with a smile: "Yes, for sure we will beat them for a third time." 'Even better' The 39-year-old coach and his assistant Tomislav Rukavina both featured in the Dinamo side ...

Luis Suarez inspired Ajax to a comfortable 2-1 victory over Dinamo Zagreb in Group A of the Europa League.