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LONDON — In the first few seconds of his first Champions League semifinal, the biggest game of his career, the brightest stage, with Tottenham Hotspur Stadium baying and roaring around him, with the eyes of the world upon him, with the weight of Ajax’s gilded history on his back and the hope of the present on his shoulders, Frenkie de Jong controlled the ball. He looked up. And he shimmied.
That is where it all started. Ajax would need far more than that one move to beat Tottenham Hotspur, of course, and take a small but significant step toward a first Champions League final in more than two decades.