The Hague: The author of a biography of Dutch football great Johan Cruyff was ordered Friday by a court to remove allegations in his book that the star took millions of euros from a charity bearing his name. Auke Kok's biography, which was released on Friday, was described as unreliable, and the 65,000 copies already printed must now be adapted with an insert to clarify information the author himself admitted he had come to doubt.

The book claimed Cruyff, who died aged 68 in 2016, received payment of one million euros ($1.1 million) per year from the Johan Cruyff foundation for use of his image with the author claiming in the text he had three sources in the player's entourage. "The passage about Cruyff receiving money from the foundation is flawed and must be rectified," the Amsterdam court said in a judgement on Twitter.