Top Facts about Daley Blind, Born to be an Ajax Player

The story of a football prodigy known as "Scholletje Junior" is presented by Sportmob.

Our Daley Blind Childhood Story with Untold Facts gives you a complete picture of his life from childhood to the present.

His life background before celebrity, his family life, family ties, and other details about him are all addressed.

Everyone is aware of his versatility. However, just a select few fans are informed of Daley Blind's fascinating story.

All the Top Facts about Daley Blind with Details

Here is some quick info about Daley.

Quick Facts

• Full Name:

   Daley Blind

• Nicknames:

   Scholletje Junior

• Date of Birth:

   9 March 1990

• Place of Birth:

   Amsterdam, Netherlands

• Age:

   31

• Nationality:

   Dutch

• Height:

   1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)

• Weight:

   72 kg

• Marital Status:

   Married

• Wife: 

  Candy-Rae Fleur

• Position:

   Defender, Midfielder

• Current Team:

   Ajax

• Jersey Number:

   17

Net Worth:

8 Million Euro or 6.8 Million Pound

 (According to WTfoot)

Daley Blind Upbringing Years and Family Roots

Daley Blind was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on March 9, 1990. His mother, Yvonne Blind, and father, Danny Blind, gave birth to him.

Our Daley Blind childhood story is about a young and bright youngster who was discovered to be genetically gifted with exceptional football talent at birth, thanks to his father.

Danny, his father, enrolled him in a school where he could play competitive soccer during sports hours.

Blind began his professional career in the Ajax youth academy, the same club where his father Danny established his mark as a professional player, one of the Top Facts about Daley Blind.

Despite his father's influence, Daley was adamant about realizing his dreams, and his ambitions were not merely a passing passion.

In his words:

“MY DAD WHO IS ALSO MY BEST FRIEND USE TO TAKE ME OUT ON IMPORTANT MATCHES AS HIS PERSONAL MASCOT DURING HIS PLAYING DAYS.

HE NEVER BOUGHT ME TOYS OR GAMES WHEN I WAS YOUNGER, JUST A FOOTBALL.

I’M ENTIRELY GRATEFUL FOR EVERYTHING HE DID. HE ALWAYS PUSHED ME.

WITHOUT HIM, I WOULDN’T HAVE THIS INCREDIBLE JOURNEY THAT I'M ON SO FAR.’

Daley Blind Career Buildout

Blind played for

(Amsterdamsche Football Club) from the age of five to eight (1995-1998), which provided him with a solid foundation in soccer.

He bonded well with youth coach Edwin Tielman, who became a father figure to him at the academy.

Danny chose to enroll his son at Ajax academy, where he was a trainer, in order to keep a close eye on him.

One of the

Top Facts about Daley Blind

is that it can't be easy for a young footballer to be the son of Ajax and Netherlands icon Danny Blind.

The footballer has always been surrounded by high expectations, and it seemed early on in his career that he would struggle to meet them.

He began a successful career at

thanks to his father's support, rising through the youth ranks to win a senior position in the squad.

During this time, his father progressed through the ranks of the club to become a board member.

The Dutch served as a utility player, playing left-back, left wing-back, center-back, and defensive midfield.

With the club, he was able to win four

titles in a row, another one of the Top Facts about Daley Blind. His father later became the assistant coach of the Netherlands thanks to strong football links in his family.

Blind is an Ajax youth product who, while still a B-junior, became a regular in the A-juniors during the 2007–08 season before earning promotion to the Ajax first team for the 2008–09 season.

Throughout his Ajax youth career, he was mostly a midfielder, often filling the role of 'No. 6' or 'third center-back.'

As a youth, he showed potential and was named captain of Jong Ajax in 2007. At the age of 17, he signed his first professional contract, which tied him to the club until July 1, 2010.

Daley made his Ajax first-team debut in an away encounter against

on December 7, 2008.

The defender made an early impact by forcing a corner kick through a Volendam defender, from which Ajax's Jan Vertonghen netted the game-winning goal.

He signed a contract extension with Ajax on December 19, 2008, which kept him with the club until June 30, 2013.

Daley Blind Path to Prominence

During the winter transfer window on 5 January 2010, he joined

on loan for the remainder of the 2009–10 season.

Blind was primarily utilized as a right-back for Groningen.

One of the Top Facts about Daley Blind is that Ajax almost sold him to Groningen on a permanent basis for €1.5 million, but the deal fell through.

The midfielder contributed to two Eredivisie national titles with Ajax in the next two seasons, the 2010–11 season and the 2011–12 season, the first of which was Ajax's 30th championship title.

When given the chance, however, Blind's performances were unimpressive, and he was even booed off the field during an Eredivisie match.

He would gain more and more confidence and playing time under newly appointed manager Frank de Boer, securing him a spot as the first choice left-back with a permanent starting position for the 2012–13 season.

Marc Overmars announced on April 23, 2013, that Ajax and Blind had agreed to extend his contract for another three years, tying him to the club until the summer of 2016.

The 26 year old helped Ajax win their third Dutch Eredivisie title in a row on May 5, securing the club's 32nd national title by assisting in a 5–0 home win over

and securing first place in the table just one matchday before the season's end.

Blind was named AFC Ajax Player of the Year for the 2012–13 season later that day, after an amazing sixth year for Ajax as the starting left-back.

De Boer moved Blind back to his natural defensive central midfielder position during the 2013–14 season, and he was voted Dutch Footballer of the Year as Ajax won their fourth consecutive league title, another one of the Top Facts about Daley Blind.

Daley Blind Ascend to Prominence

agreed to sign Blind on August 30, 2014, subject to a medical and personal terms agreement. On September 1, 2014, the transfer was finalized for a fee of £13.8 million.

Blind made his debut 13 days after signing with United, playing the entire 90 minutes in a 4–0 triumph over Queens Park Rangers at Old Trafford.

On October 20, he scored his first goal for the club, a 20-yard strike that won United a 2–2 draw at West Bromwich Albion.

The Dutch professional suffered a knee ligament injury in the

' UEFA Euro 2016 qualifier against Latvia on November 16, 2014, which forced him to miss the rest of the season with Manchester United, one of the Top Facts about Daley Blind.

He made his return to the United team on January 11, 2015, starting in defense in a 1–0 loss to Southampton at Old Trafford.

In a 1–1 draw with West Ham on February 8, he netted an injury-time equalizer for United.

Although the great midfielder had spent the previous season as a defensive midfielder or left-back, he began the season as a center-back, where he remained for the majority of the season.

Daley produced his first goal of the season in a 3–1 win over Liverpool at Old Trafford on September 12, 2015, and was awarded man of the match for his performance.

He started the 2016–17

season as the team's first choice center-back with Chris Smalling, but lost his spot after Phil Jones and Marcos Rojo returned to form.

The Amsterdam-born worked his way back into the starting lineup, largely at left-back, where he replaced

, the team's first-choice left-back.

He scored his first goal of the season, sprinting into the box to meet with a Zlatan Ibrahimovi pass and scoring low into the bottom corner.

One of Ajax's best defenders started the Europa League final, in which Manchester United won 2–0 against his previous team Ajax.

Blind's return to Ajax for a four-year term and a cost of €16 million with conditional add-ons was announced on 17 July 2018 by both Manchester United and Ajax.

Daley achieved his first senior hat-trick in an 8–0 league triumph over De Graafschap at home on December 16, 2018, while playing as a center-back.

Daley Blind Personal & Love Life

Football is a golden tree that has provided shade and love to millions of young people.  Candy-Rae Fleur, Blind's lookalike girlfriend, has been with him for a long time.

Candy-Rae is a model and dancer with a long CV that includes performing at the MTV EMAs alongside Robin Thicke.

She is an Amsterdam native and a Hermann Wesselink College graduate (2007 graduating set).

She currently works as a broadcast media specialist, according to her LinkedIn page.

As Daley Blind puts it: “I see myself as a regular guy, and us, a normal couple.

I think it is sometimes difficult for my girlfriend Candy-Rae because dating a footballer which literally means having lots of attention.

The love of my life gives me great support and I also try to give the same to her.”

Candy-Rae Feur has once shown her extrovertness by bringing her dancing crew to support her boyfriend, despite her usual method of avoiding the spotlight.

A “Team Blind” face cap was a novel way to show support for the Manchester United defender.

The group of stunning blondes and brunettes were all seen with the fashion item "Team Blind snapback caps," which they utilized to attract spectators' attention as they came into the stadium, one of the 

Top Facts about Daley Blind.

Candy Rae dislikes being referred to as a WAG, despite the fact that she is a footballer's girlfriend. As she once stated:

“I am not a WAG, I don’t feel like a player’s girlfriend. It is the other way round! He is a dancer’s man!”

Fleur added: “It's uncalled for at United, every wife or girlfriend will get photographed wherever they go.

When we were at Ajax and at times we all went out, there was never a photographer around.”

Blind is a highly pleasant person who finds himself in the company of a wide variety of people.

He is selfless, constantly wanting to assist people without expecting anything in return.

Daley Blind's life is marked by empathy and an outward display of emotional capacity. Candy-Rae Fleur is his girlfriend, and he is very sensitive and dedicated to her.

Thanks to his partner Candy-Rae Fleur, he is sensitive, artistic, intuitive, polite, wise, and very musical.

He may be afraid, excessively trusting, depressed, and eager to escape reality, another one of the Top Facts about Daley Blind.

Being alone with Candy-Rae Fleur, sleeping, listening to music, and having a romantic relationship with her are among the things he likes to do.

And People who claim to know everything, criticism, the past coming back to haunt him, and any type of cruelty are among those things he dislikes.

Daley Blind Networth & LifeStyle

The center-back signed a two-year contract with Ajax Amsterdam in July 2018, earning a massive 2 million Euro (1.7 million Pound) per year.

According to our calculations, he makes €5,479.45 (£4,657.53) per day and €228.31 (£194.06) each hour!

This means that the average person would have to work for 4.72 years to earn the same amount as Mr. Confidence does in a month, one of the Top Facts about Daley Blind.

Daley Blind net worth

has increased to almost 8 million Euros during his time in England. His current market worth is €24,000,000.

Daley Blind Family

Daley Blind comes from an upper-middle-class family. Football is the most important thing in the Blind House.

However, because there are more females than males in the house, there aren't many football shirts inside. Members of the Daley Blind Family will be described in this section.

Daley Blind Mother

Yvonne Blind is well-known for assisting her son, Daley, in his move to Manchester United. In 2006, she and her husband were both involved in a traffic accident, one of the 

Top Facts about Daley Blind

.

The other person in the accident (the victim) had to be cut from the vehicle and taken to the hospital.

Yvonne’s husband said: “The fact that I have been sitting behind the wheel with alcohol is inexcusable and should never have happened.

I am deeply ashamed and realize that someone in my position should have taken responsibility. That this has not happened makes the situation all the more painful.”

Daley Blind Relatives

Hellevoetssluis is where Daley Blind's grandfather was born. His distinguished career in the power industry has made him a well-known figure in the Dutch province of Zeeland.

Daley Blind's grandmother is from Vlissingse, a municipality in the Dutch province of South West.

He has an uncle, and he once witnessed his uncle's tragic death in a moped accident.

Daley Blind Sisters

Zola and Frenkie Blind are the names of Daley Blind's two lovely sisters.

According to their images, Zola appears to be older than her brother while Frenkie appears to be much younger. Zola is very supportive of her little brother.

Daley Blind Father

Soccer has been a family affair for the Blind family thanks to the head of the household.

On August 29, 1979, he made his professional football debut with Sparta. Blind joined Ajax in July 1986.

During his playing career, Danny Blind won the Champions League (1995), the European Cup II (1987), the UEFA Cup (1992), and the World Cup (1995).

In the Dutch league, he appeared in 537 games and scored 45 goals. During his playing days, Danny had a striking likeness to his son Daley.

Danny took over as manager of Eredivisie winners Ajax in 2005 before joining Van Gaal's Dutch national team in 2012.

Due to poor results, he was fired as the national team assistant coach in 2017. Danny, who was born in East Souburg, played for

, Ajax, and the Dutch national team.

He became so well-liked at Ajax that the club's board of directors hired him as a trainer and then elected him to the board.

Danny Blind was a standout defender for the Netherlands during his time there.

He is the first Dutch soccer player to have won all UEFA and FIFA-recognized international club competitions.

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