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Young Ajax winger Kiran Bechan loaned out to Sparta Rotterdam

03 February: Kiran Bechan will play for Dutch First Division side Sparta Rotterdam for the rest of this season. The winger from the Ajax youth was a member of the Young Ajax squad coached by John van 't Schip.

Bechan (20) made his debut for Ajax-1 on 01 April 2001, in the Eredivisie away game at NEC in Nijmegen, which Ajax lost 1-0. It was his only first team performance so far. Bechan returned to Young Ajax, with whom he won the Dutch championship for reserves teams in 2002 and made it to the semi final of the Amstel Cup.

This season, four of his team-mates (Nigel de Jong, Maarten Stekelenburg, Stefano Seedorf and Wesley Sneijder) made it to the first team. The technical staff thinks it's time for Bechan to also make the next step in his career. With Sparta, he will play at least one professional game every week, which is not the case with Young Ajax.

In Rotterdam, Bechan will be re-united with another former Young Ajax team-mate: central forward Brutil Hosé, who plays for Sparta on an amateur basis. (MP)

(Source: Ajax.nl)