As for the Dutch, Ajax may have conquered Europe, but the championship was won by their archrivals Feyenoord. As far as Dutch championship was concerned, no major change – the league was not particularly strong and the top clubs were the same as ever. Feyenoord did not change much their squad – only the Swedish star Kindvall was gone. The club differed from Ajax in policy: they preferred to buy well established players. Ajax preferred to develop their own – either coming through the club’s youth system, or buying young unknown talent from smaller clubs. 
Amsterdam ruled Europe, but in Holland Rotterdam was king in 1971:
top, left to right: Eddy Treijtel, Dick Schneider, Jan Boskamp, Henk Wery, Theo Lazeroms, Bram Geilman
middle: Henk van Leeuwen, Willem van Hanegem, Lex Schoenmaker, Rinus Bosglieter, Hans Posthumus, Joop van Daele, Theo van Duivenbode, Rinus Israel, Gerard Meijer – masseur
bottom: Rene van Eck – assistant coach, Wim Rijsbergen, Wim Jansen, Matthias Maiwald, Coen Moulijn, Franz Hasil (Austria), Piet Romeijn, Ernst Happel (Austria) – coach.Note the spectacles Joop van Daele is wearing. Rarely already, but there were still footballers playing with glasses. Van Daele was a national player as well, and not the only one with glasses in Feyenoord.
top, left to right: Eddy Treijtel, Dick Schneider, Jan Boskamp, Henk Wery, Theo Lazeroms, Bram Geilman
middle: Henk van Leeuwen, Willem van Hanegem, Lex Schoenmaker, Rinus Bosglieter, Hans Posthumus, Joop van Daele, Theo van Duivenbode, Rinus Israel, Gerard Meijer – masseur
bottom: Rene van Eck – assistant coach, Wim Rijsbergen, Wim Jansen, Matthias Maiwald, Coen Moulijn, Franz Hasil (Austria), Piet Romeijn, Ernst Happel (Austria) – coach.Note the spectacles Joop van Daele is wearing. Rarely already, but there were still footballers playing with glasses. Van Daele was a national player as well, and not the only one with glasses in Feyenoord.
