A Quote by Toby Alderweireld

At Ajax, they are strict when it comes to using the ball as a defender.

Toby Alderweireld

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Ajax Ball Defender Strict Using

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Toby Alderweireld
Belgian - Athlete
Born: March 2, 1989

I've always liked taking the ball out of defence and I will carry on doing that but at the end of the day I'm a defender, and that's what I want to be known as - a defender, getting in the blocks and the headers that people don't recognise I do, the dirty stuff that every defender should do and should be good at.

John Stones

I love Courtney Lee. He's a very good player. I know that sounds very simple, but it's true. He does things well. He's a good defender, a great team defender, and he shoots the ball very well.

Doc Rivers

There's obviously a push to protect the quarterback, but you have to give the defensive players a chance. All of the quarterback has to do is pull the ball, and he's a runner. How's the defender going to know if the ball is pulled or not?

Jeff Fisher

Ledley King would get the ball off you without you even noticing he's the only defender in England who doesn't hold onto you, and he sometimes still gets the ball off my feet easily.

Thierry Henry

I played a lot of times at the beginning at Ajax as a left full back with a fantastic combination with Mark Overmars but I think as a central defender and a leader in the back it was my best role I think.

Frank de Boer

I've always been a big Ajax fan. It is not very strange - my whole family supports Ajax.

Klaas-Jan Huntelaar

As a big man you may struggle to get much height when jumping for a ball - but by training with your defender team-mates you can develop a technique for making strong challenges in the air, making defenders uncomfortable and work on taking the ball down.

Adebayo Akinfenwa

I am a defender, but I can play the ball. I have a good technique.

Toby Alderweireld

Your No. 1 priority as a defender is to keep the ball out of the back of the net.

Kelley O'Hara

When I was young, the best moment came when I was 10 and I got invited to the academy. I remember getting all this Ajax training gear and suddenly I was able to call myself an Ajax player.

Rafael van der Vaart

What a ball from Frank. Frank and I go back years. He used to do that when I was at Ajax.

Dennis Bergkamp

I just grew up in Ajax with all the players from Ajax. We only had two or three foreigners, so everyone knew each other and knew the system.

Edgar Davids

At Adaptive Path, we've been doing our own work with Ajax over the last several months, and we're realizing we've only scratched the surface of the rich interaction and responsiveness that Ajax applications can provide.