[124][125] However, his footballing philosophy also shares aspects with the free-flowing style of South American football (Brazilian football in particular)[126][127] than traditional British/Anglo-Saxon school of football (with distinctively direct, aggressive, heavily athletic, muscular, physical elements in coaching and playing style). It was a difficult position to adapt to and one not used by many teams in Spain at the time. De taal van Johan Cruijff, "Does Shay Given really carry holy water with him at every match? His blueprint for developing young players has been copied all over the world.
In the league, Cruyff was the top scorer with 25 goals as Ajax became champions. [7][8] Cruyff led the Netherlands to the final of the 1974 FIFA World Cup and received the Golden Ball as player of the tournament. Cruyff kicked off and the ball was passed around the Oranje team 15 times before returning to Cruyff, who then went on a run past Berti Vogts and ended when he was fouled by Uli Hoeneß inside the box. "[96] Cruyff is always considered to be an indisputable icon in Ajax's history, especially in the club's golden era (1966–1973).
"[317] That widely quoted statement earned him a place on lists of the world's top atheist athletes. I loved the Dutch in the '70s, they excited me and Cruyff was the best. As the tournament approached, Cruyff flatly refused to wear Adidas's trademark three black stripes on his No. "Barça: A People's Passion". If you don't use your head, using your feet won't be sufficient. "[95], Cruyff was known for his technical ability, speed, acceleration, dribbling and vision, possessing an awareness of his teammates' positions as an attack unfolded. And Cruyff decided his time in Amsterdam had come to an end. He was my childhood hero; I had a poster of him on my bedroom wall. [48], Despite his relatively advanced age, Cruyff played all league matches that season except for one. [35] On 19 August 1973, he played his last match for Ajax where they defeated FC Amsterdam 6–1, the second match of the 1973–74 season. "[111], According to England's 1966 World Cup-winning striker Bobby Charlton, "He [Cruyff] was pretty intelligent, too! [281][282], Cruyff is the author/co-author of several books (in Dutch and Spanish) about his football career, in particular his principles and view about the football world. [45][46] He put the ball down as for a routine penalty kick, but instead of shooting at goal, Cruyff nudged the ball sideways to teammate Jesper Olsen, who in return passed it back to Cruyff to tap the ball into the empty net, as Otto Versfeld, the Helmond goalkeeper, looked on. In November 2003, Cruyff invoked legal proceedings against the publisher Tirion Uitgevers, over its photo book Johan Cruyff de Ajacied ("Johan Cruijff the Ajax player"), which used photographs by Guus de Jong. "[108] As Van Basten noted, "Johan is so technically perfect that even as a boy he stopped being interested in that aspect of the game. As the manager of AFC Ajax, Cruyff was able to implement his favoured team formation (3–4–3): with three mobile defenders; plus one more covering space – becoming, in effect, a defensive midfielder, two "controlling" midfielders with responsibilities to feed the attack-minded players, one second striker, two touchline-hugging wingers and one versatile centre forward. But there aren't many who know. [332][333] On 2 March 2016, he was in attendance on the second day of winter testing at the Circuit de Catalunya just outside Barcelona and visited Dutch Formula One driver Max Verstappen.
City: Amsterdam, Netherlands.
[53], In an interview published in the 50th anniversary issue of World Soccer magazine, the captain of the Brazilian team that won the 1970 World Cup, Carlos Alberto, went on to say, "The only team I've seen that did things differently was Holland at the 1974 World Cup in Germany. After your approval this helps us to show you the right language. I would not have been able to take a corner. Thus, the goalkeeper effectively becomes the 11th player, like Edwin van der Sar at Ajax or Víctor Valdés at Barcelona. Much more than his team, the referee or the fans.
About Cruyff's lasting influence on Barça's youth academy La Masia, Guillem Balagué noted, "Cruyff demanded changes at the academy and La Masía began regularly producing the players he wanted as well as providing the kids with a sound education, dual ambitions of the Dutch coach and the club. Johan Cruyff was a Dutch footballer and football manager, who is often regarded as one of the finest footballers and managers that has ever been involved with the … I make myself available to help you; I look at you. … 1949). [305] Contrary to his well-known strong personality and superstar status, Cruyff led a relatively quiet private life beyond the world of football. [9] Ajax won 1–0. Johan has changed two clubs. So successful was this system that Ajax won the Champions League in 1995 playing Cruyff's system. "[267] Cruyff stood out at the 1974 World Cup in West Germany which Merkel watched from her then home country East Germany. [9] Without him, the Netherlands finished runners-up in the World Cup again. Johan Cruyff did both – and in such an exhilarating style. You have to be in the right place at the right moment, not too early, not too late. As he once noted, "Quality without results is pointless. Johan Cruyff had it too - that personality, the character to say 'yes, I believe in this game, and I'm strong and brave enough to apply it on the pitch.' (“Are you crazy?” Haan replied. In January 1981, Cruyff played three friendly matches for FC Dordrecht. Just before half-time he wandered into the dug-out and asked Charly Rexach, the youth team manager at the time, the name of the young lad playing on the right side of midfield. Since then everything looks more or less the same to me.... Their 'carousel' style of play was amazing to watch and marvellous for the game. I think it's good to win like that, by taking the initiative right from the off.
"[55], Cruyff retired from international football in October 1977, having helped the national team qualify for the upcoming World Cup. Cruyff had to fly his son back to the Netherlands to register his birth as the name "Jordi" had been banned by the Spanish authorities. Cruyff endeared himself to the Barcelona fans when he chose a Catalan name, Jordi, for his son. [278][279] In the 1970s, Cruyff loved to collect cars. If you are living like an animal, what is the point of living? Cruyff's season at Feyenoord was a successful one in which the club won the Eredivisie for the first time in a decade, part of a league and KNVB Cup double. [296], Cruyff remained a controversial figure throughout his life. I don't have anything against computers, but you judge football players intuitively and with your heart. [337] His lung cancer had metastasized to his brain and a week before his death he had begun to lose his ability to speak as well as movement on his left side. ', "Every trainer talks about movement, about running a lot. If you aren't capable of learning you won't improve. On his condition, Cruyff added, "Meanwhile, we have to wait. [296] Forward Ruud Geels ended up with the number 1 shirt while goalkeeper Jan Jongbloed played as the number 8.
In his second match, a friendly against Czechoslovakia, Cruyff was the first Dutch international to receive a red card. As coach at Ajax and Barcelona, he built thrilling sides, nurtured a remarkable number of genius players and influenced many of the most important teams in the world. We focus on children in need. Injuries and disagreements with the administration of the club, however, blighted his spell in the Segunda División, and he only made ten appearances, scoring two goals. [72] On 30 December 2011, Catalonia played Tunisia in a goalless draw at the Lluís Companys.
I hadn't understood it until then.
After a few years of trying and failing to encourage big sportswear brands to take his idea seriously, after all this was quite an unusual ambition of a professional sportsman at the time. His character, both in and beyond the footballing world, was much described as the complicated combination of an idealist,[288] individualist, libertarian, collectivist, romantic, purist, pragmatist, rebel,[289] and even despot. [24] He showed talent both on the pitcher's mound and behind the plate, as a catcher, before having to leave the club's baseball section at age 15 to focus on football. If they managed to do the impossible nearly five thousand years ago, why can't we do it today?
Until then, the first team of Barcelona had been comfortably living in a world of excuses and enemies, content with their role as victims when faced with Real Madrid, an institution seen from Catalonia as the club of the Establishment", and adding, "Xavi Hernández describes the style in its purest form: 'I pass the ball and move, or I pass the ball and stay where I am.
[97][175][176][177] In Total Football's heyday (in the early 1970s), Cruyff was truly an 'on-field tactician', an 'on-field manager',[41] or a 'coach-player' at the same time, before the concept of player-coach was at the height of its popularity in professional football during the 1980s and 1990s.
There I learned how to develop my uncontrolled ambitions, to think as a coach and about sponsorship."[23]. [128][129][130] However, as Tim Vickery has pointed out, at the 1974 World Cup Cruyff's Netherlands side "rendered South American football obsolete", with the Dutch comfortably defeating Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil on their way to the final: their willingness to press their opponents denied the South American nations' playmakers the time on the ball they were used to having. In the tactical area, I think I just have more than most other players." He joined Barcelona just weeks later, two years before the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco died, maintaining to the European press corps en route that he chose Barcelona over rivals Real Madrid because he could never join a club "associated with Franco". He played the whole 1980 campaign for the Diplomats, even as the team was facing dire financial trouble. He was renowned for his strong personality. Mascots from both teams took to the pitch wearing Netherlands national team shirts adorned with Cruyff's number 14 on the front, while there were numerous banners in the spectators' stands bearing the simple message, "Johan Bedankt" ("Thank you Johan").[355].
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