Kluivert dedicates Roma shirt number to Nouri

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Kluivert will wear number 34 as a tribute to Nouri. AFP

Roma new boy Justin Kluivert has taken the opportunity to pay tribute to former team-mate Abdelhak Nouri after picking the number 34 shirt at his new club in tribute to his friend.

'Appie' suffered "serious and permanent" brain damage after going into cardiac arrest during a pre-season frieldy against Werder Bremen in July 2017.

Eager to pay tribute to his former team-mate, Kluivert toook to Instagram on Friday to announce that he would be wearing the number 34 shirt (which Nouri wore at Ajax) this season, rather than his usual number 45.

"Why 34? Appie’s number. My prayers and shirt number for you, my friend-brother who thaught (sic) me so much," Kluivert posted on Instagram.

Ajax recently admitted to providing "inadequate" treatment for Nouri, after it emerged that a defribulator should have been used much earlier in treating him.