Published on 24 September 2018.
History — The beginning
Ryan Gravenberch (16) had just turned 8 years old when he joined the Ajax academy. Before joining Ajax, he played for Zeeburgia, one of the clubs who delivers a lot of young players [U8-U12] to professional football clubs. Ajax has a partnership with the club, and every year a few of their talents join Ajax. Examples from recent years include Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Juan Familia-Castillo and Kenny Tete. After Ryan’s first few years in the academy, he was promoted to older teams quite quickly, a process that has continued until this day. He made his debut for Ajax U17 when he was 14 years old, he impressed with his performances and was fully promoted to the U17’s in January 2017. After the following summer, Ryan made his U19-debut already and once more he showed his class in good performances.
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