{"id":9174,"date":"2017-11-29T02:07:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T17:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=9174"},"modified":"2017-11-29T02:07:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T17:07:32","slug":"ajax-sign-deal-guangzhou-rf-cooperate-youth-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/11\/29\/ajax-sign-deal-guangzhou-rf-cooperate-youth-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ajax sign deal with Guangzhou R&#038;F to cooperate on youth academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four-time European champion Ajax Amsterdam\u00a0announced a five-year partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/07\/14\/icelandic-centre-back-solvi-ottesen-joins-guangzhou-rf\/\">Chinese Super League side Guangzhou R&amp;F<\/a> on Monday that will attempt to build the best youth academy in China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">In a statement, Ajax director Edwin van der Sar said the youth academy &#8220;has been extremely important to Ajax for decades in everything we do,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afp.com\/en\/news\/1361\/china-club-taps-ajax-build-best-football-academy-doc-um8xp4\">as reported by AFP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Youth is the core asset of our club and we are delighted that we can leverage our knowledge with an international partner like R&amp;F,&#8221; the former Netherlands international goalkeeper said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is well known that for a club like Ajax, it is hard to grow in the current European football industry. With initiatives like ACA (Ajax Coaching Academy), we create opportunities to make alternative steps forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four-time European champion Ajax Amsterdam\u00a0announced a five-year partnership with Chinese Super League side Guangzhou R&amp;F on Monday that will attempt to build the best youth academy in China. In a statement, Ajax director Edwin van der Sar said the youth academy &#8220;has been extremely important to Ajax for decades in everything we do,&#8221; as reported by AFP. &#8220;Youth is the core asset of our club and we are delighted that we can leverage our knowledge with an international partner like R&amp;F,&#8221; the former Netherlands international goalkeeper said. &#8220;It is well known that for a club like Ajax, it is hard to grow in the current European football industry. With initiatives &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/11\/29\/ajax-sign-deal-guangzhou-rf-cooperate-youth-academy\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Ajax sign deal with Guangzhou R&#038;F to cooperate on youth academy&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":9175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1089,249,898,95],"class_list":["post-9174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","tag-academy","tag-ajax-amsterdam","tag-guangzhou-rf","tag-slider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}