Patrick Kluivert is generally regarded as one of the greats of Dutch football. He was their all time top scorer for ten years (2003-2013) until that pesky Robin Van Persie came along. He won the Golden Boot at Euro 2000 to add to four domestic titles and a Champions League across a 14-year career.
While best remembered for his goals at Barcelona, Kluivert was born in Amsterdam and, as expected, started his footballing career at AFC Ajax. He established himself as one of the 'golden generation' alongside the De Boers, Clarence Seedorf and Marc Overmars amongst others.
Although they're not the unstoppable machine that they were in the late 90's, Ajax still regularly finish in the top three of the Dutch Eridivisie. They currently sit second, eight points off of Feyenoord. Earlier they took on relegation threatened PEC Zwolle and Kluivert was on the teamsheet.
No, not that one. His 17 year old son. Yep. Do you feel old yet?
Justin Kluivert came off the bench just before half time to make his senior debut. And he's the spitting image of his father.
Justin Kluivert, 17-year-old son of Patrick, has just come on to make his full debut for @AFCAjax 👍 pic.twitter.com/SszzqUoFrf
— B/R Football (@brfootball) January 15, 2017
It didn't even look like Ajax were preparing to use him. They had to get him an extra chair in the away dressing room!
The Kluiverts aren't the first father/son duo to play for Ajax though. Danny and Daley Blind have beat them to that statistic.
Patrick Kluivert scored the winner in the 1995 Champions League final against Milan at the age of 18. Justin is 17. So there's no pressure whatsoever on his shoulders.
