"I am inspired by Cruyff's football in the seventies, by the Dutch team coached by Rinus Michels," Bosz said. "It is important for Dutch football that Cruyff is remembered for this way of playing. I have the same clear vision. Our way of playing is similar. An attacking style."

With the 53-year-old Bosz, who succeeded Frank de Boer last summer after spells at Dutch clubs De Graafschap, Heracles Almelo and Vitesse, Ajax had a difficult start of the season, with a different line-up than now, but during the course of the season Bosz found the team he could play with according to his attacking principles of football, by putting pressure on the opponent, also in the final.

"Of course we want to win the final, but like all season we try to win in an attractive way," Bosz said. "Some people say we play naive. If you lose, they are right. This season we show we can win with attacking football. Bayern Munich and FC Barcelona also show it."

With summer signings Davinson Sanchez, a Colombian defender, Hakim Ziyech, a Dutch-Moroccan playmaker as key players, alongside the 19-year-old Danish prodigy Kasper Dolberg as convincing number one striker, goalkeeper Andre Onana from Cameroon and Dutch captain Davy Klaassen, Bosz has a base he could build his team on.

In addition, some new exciting Dutch talents showed themselves in the first team, like the 17-year-old defender Matthijs de Ligt, the 20-year-old midfielders Van de Beek, Abdelhak Nouri and Frenkie de Jong and the 18-year-old winger Justin Kluivert, the son of former Ajax player Patrick Kluivert, who produced the winning goal for Ajax in the 1995 Champions League final against AC Milan.

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