Nineteen-year-old Kluivert moved to Roma for 17.25 million euros ($19.54million) in 2018 while De Jong, 21, will join Barcelona later this year for $85 million. There is "the risk that they go in two, three or four years" after being brought through from the academy, says Blind, whose son Daley was a product of the club's academy. But he did so having won 17 trophies in eight years as a first team player at Ajax. "Hopefully, as many Ajax players or ex-Ajax players are going to win the Champions League," he adds. In the shadow of CruyffFor the likes of former Ajax team manager, David Endt, replicating the qualities that make the Ajax Academy unique is not simple.

Source: CNN February 13, 2019 10:52 UTC