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Inside Cruyff’s boyhood home where Ajax hero grew up and fans can rent

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FOOTBALL fans have been offered the chance to rent Johan Cruyff’s house… for just £150 a week.

Ajax, Barcelona and Holland legend Cruyff was born in Amsterdam in 1947.

Locals and tourist alike can read a plaque in tribute to Cruyff on the building
Flowers were laid at the house in tribute to the icon when he passed away
The Ajax legend grew up on a street five minutes away from the club's stadium

He spent his first 12 years in the city’s Betondorp suburb, where his parents ran a greengrocer’s shop.

Future Ajax and Barca coaching icon Cruyff died in 2016, aged 68.

Fans from around the world have made pilgrimages to the modest three-room property at 32 Akkerstraat, Amsterdam.

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It has been covered with fan messages, and its windows display pictures of its famous former resident.

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Plans had been made to turn the house into a museum honouring the World Cup star.

But it has now instead been put up for rent by Amsterdam’s Ymere housing association for 762 euros a month.

Ymere spokesman Coen Springelkamp said: “Given the long waiting lists for social housing, the best solution is to rent this house out.

“You don’t have to be a football fan to answer the advertisement, although of course that would be nice.

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“But don’t worry – we won’t ask you to do keepy-uppies before we rent it to you.”

The house offers two bedrooms, a living room, kitchen, toilet, bathroom and a back garden.

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And neighbours include devoted fans of Ajax, who Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag led to the Eredivisie title last season.

One local told De Telegraaf: “If a Feyenoord fan comes to live in the house, I’ll throw a firebomb through the window.”

The football icon finished his playing career in 1984 and died in 2016

Source: The Sun

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