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Just 10 days after the World Cup final in late July, Ajax played Austrian side Sturm Graz and won 2-0. It was not a pre-season friendly, but a Champions League second-round qualifier.

Some of the other victors at that stage were MOL Vidi, Shkendija and Astana. The point is Ajax were not supposed to make it this far.

But here they are, a new generation every bit as exciting as the club's European champions of 1995, Edgar Davids, Patrick Kluivert, Clarence Seedorf et al.

For much of the two decades since that side was disbanded, Amsterdam's biggest impression on Europe has come via its airport. 

But much like the Schiphol Airport of today — fluid movement and clinically efficient, yet stylish — the

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