Maurice Uriel "Uri" Coronel (24 December 1946 – 18 July 2016) was a Dutch

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and chairman of

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, a position he held at the club from April 2008 to 25 July 2011. He was born in

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Uri Coronel was a board member for the Dutch association football club AFC Ajax from 1989 until 1997. He was the driving force behind the relocation of the club from its former home of

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to the now current home at the

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. In 2007, he was the head of the committee which investigated the functionality of the club. Chairman John Jakke and Managing director Maarten Fontein were scrutinized following the investigation, leading to their immediate resignation. Uri subsequently became the new Chairman of Ajax following the dismissal. The function of Chairman of the club became an unpaid position. With the arrival of Uri Coronel, Ajax would once again have a

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Chairman. As a Chairman however, Mr. Coronel came under harsh criticism, as his direction for the club deviated too much from his own initial report which was submitted by his investigative committee. On 30 March 2011 the board of AFC Ajax, including Uri Coronel, announced their resignation, as a result of an impending deadlock, after tensions arose between the leadership of the club and club icon

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. Outside of Ajax Uri Coronel was very successful in the field of insurance. He was member of the

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, an advisory body to the municipal Government and held many other functions in social organizations. Coronel died on 18 July 2016 at the age of 69.Uri Coronel (69) overleden

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