It is going to be a life-changing few months for Justin Kluivert – and not just because his team, high-flying Bournemouth, are making a push to finish in the Champions League spots on a spell-binding streak of form.
His 2025 will also be dominated by the arrival of his first child. She is expected on February 10 and, given the Kluivert family is male-dominated – Justin, son of legendary Dutch footballer Patrick, has four brothers – the arrival of a baby girl makes for added excitement.
His sea-view house on England’s south coast is already kitted out with memorabilia from his well-travelled career that, aged just 25, has already seen him play in Amsterdam, Rome, Leipzig, Nice, Valencia and now Bournemouth – or, as he says: ‘Every country I have played in, I have picked the nicest place, right?