As Barcelona's manager for nearly a decade, he helped create one of the greatest dynasties in the history of the club and continental football, both in terms of trophies and playing style. As Jonathan Wilson writes, "He [Cruyff] was a beautiful, brilliant and inspirational player and that alone would have placed him firmly in the pantheon, but what he did as a coach is unparalleled. When he took over Barcelona in , they had won two league titles in 28 years. Crisis had followed crisis.
In the 27 years since, they have won 13 league titles and five Champions Leagues All with the football of Cruyff. Under Cruyff's guidance, Barcelona won four consecutive La Liga titles from to and the club's first European Cup in particular. With 11 trophies, Cruyff became the club's most successful manager at that point. He also became the club's longest consecutive serving manager, serving eight years. It was the brainchild of Cruyff. In , he wanted to establish a copy of the Ajax Youth Academy in Barcelona. It was ten years after the inception of the youth program, La Masia, when the young players began to graduate and play for their first team.
One of the first graduates, who would later earn international acclaim, was previous Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola. On 11 July , Spain won the World Cup final with eight players from Barcelona; seven were from La Masia, and six of them were in the starting line-up: This set a record for the most players to be provided by a club side for a team in a World Cup final.
And since then, the rondos have been not just a method but a symbol of the club's playing style: Cruyff blended several ideas and concepts and converted them into a philosophy — the seeds of which were planted throughout a club in urgent need of a footballing identity. I make myself available to help you; I look at you. I stop, I keep my head up and look, and, above all, I open up the pitch. Whoever has the ball is running play. That comes from the school of Johan Cuyff and Pep Guardiola.
He introduced the philosophy to keep the ball, to play in triangles, to attack.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Letter H – Topic for this week is Happy – Cee's Photography
That philosophy remains true to this day. We're all students of Cruyff and his school of thought. Writing in his weekly blog for Kicca. The intelligent use of the ball and the spaces, the importance of talent over the physical condition and the understanding of football as a team sport are concepts that I definitely endorse. As a prominent graduate from the famed Ajax Youth Academy , he always believed using regularly young home-grown players in first-team squad. He established a unique model at La Masia where the youth players could grow up and have a better chance to be part of the senior team, as they would already be accustomed to the style of play.
Cruyff is the one who started it all. He has been the club's most influential figure. We all have the ability to do certain things, but I would not have been able to build something from scratch like Cruyff did. I learned a lot of things from him. I cannot imagine the current Barcelona without Cruyff's work.
It's all about rondos [piggy in the middle]. He has had the biggest influence on football out of anyone in the world, first as a player and then as a coach. He taught me a lot and you can see that in the fact that so many of his former players are now coaches". The titles only help. Johan has changed two clubs. Not only did he change Ajax, but also Barcelona — and then the Dutch and Spanish national teams, too. I've won more titles than him. Messi, for example, is someone runs less and in that he's the best of Cruyff's alumni.
I would not have been capable of doing what he did at Barcelona. He did it all. What Cruyff's done for football cannot be compared. The statue thing is superficial. He has made us love this sport so openly that there's no way we can forget him. Cruyff has left us now, but his vision and philosophy will hopefully live forever. You can see it in the way Barcelona—one of two clubs Cruyff revolutionized, along with Ajax—still plays every week. It's a style that has admirers around the world. I think a lot of people share that [philosophy] with him.
You want to see this type of game, where you set the tone, you control the game, you make it fast, you make it attractive and attacking. He's always been famous for his version of the 4—3—3 with the wide wingers, all technically highly gifted and fast. This is his mark. Germany and Bayern goalkeeper Manuel Neuer , who completed more passes at the World Cup than Argentina's Lionel Messi did, incarnates the goalkeeper whom Cruyff dreamt up in the s and s: A footballer in gloves. He thought it was a waste of a player.
As Cruyff once said, "In my teams, the goalie goalkeeper is the first attacker and the striker the first defender. In the book, Dutch football's ideas in particular Cruyff's effectively related to the use of space in Dutch painting and Dutch architecture. In , the Italian-language documentary film Il profeta del gol was directed by Sandro Ciotti. The documentary narrates the successes of Johan Cruyff's football career in the s. In , the documentary film Johan Cruijff — En un momento dado " Johan Cruijff — At Any Given Moment " was made by Ramon Gieling and charts the years Cruyff spent at Barcelona, the club where he had the most profound effect in both a footballing and cultural sense.
In it lead singer Antony Genn described his partner as "Better than Elvis in his '68 comeback, Better than Cruyff in ' I think I wasn't the only one in Europe. In February , President of Israel Shimon Peres , at his residence in Jerusalem , welcomed Cruyff and praising his foundation 's dedication to peace, "People remember very well that not only were you an outstanding football player but that you gave football a social content, you made it an educational process.
You are a role model. Football is one of the great ways to make peace among people. When a player like you arrives in our country the eyes of the children light up—Jewish, Arab or Muslim. In the Netherlands, and to some extent Spain, Cruyff is famous for his one-liners that usually hover between brilliant insight and the blatantly obvious. They are famous for their Amsterdam dialect and incorrect grammar, and often feature tautologies and paradoxes.
The quote has been used for the title of a documentary about Cruyff's life: Johan Cruijff — En un momento dado. In the Netherlands, his most famous one-liner is "Ieder nadeel heb z'n voordeel " "Every disadvantage has its advantage" and his way of expressing himself has been dubbed " Cruijffiaans ". Cruyff rarely limited himself to a single line though, and in a comparison with the equally oracular but reserved football manager Rinus Michels, Kees Fens equated Cruyff's monologues to experimental prose, "without a subject, only an attempt to drop words in a sea of uncertainty Upon arriving in Barcelona, the Spanish branch of Polydor decided to release the single in Spain as well, where it was rather popular.
Cruyff suffered a heart attack like his father who died of a heart attack when he was 12 in his early forties. He used to smoke 20 cigarettes a day prior to undergoing double heart bypass surgery in while he was the coach of Barcelona. Cruyff was forced to immediately give up smoking , and he made an anti-smoking advertisement for the Catalan Department of Health. In the TV spot , Cruyff is dressed like a manager in a long trench coat combined with collared shirt and tie. He juggled a cigarette pack 16 times — using feet, thighs, chest, shoulder, and head like holding up a ball — before volleying it away.
- QMJC Oct 2018 - Substance Use, Treatment & Housing.
- iTunes is the world's easiest way to organize and add to your digital media collection..
- Erreichen die Vereinten Nationen durch die Strategie der Penetration eine Verbesserung der Menschenrechtslage? Südafrika und Uruguay (German Edition).
- How to Build an Internet Business from Scratch: Income from Your Ideas.
- 93 Comments.
Throughout the commercial he speaks in Catalan about the dangers of smoking. Cruyff was working on another book, also using De Jong's photographs, and claimed unsuccessfully that Tirion's book violated his trademark and portrait rights. In , a public poll in the Netherlands to determine the greatest Dutchman " De Grootste Nederlander " named Cruyff the 6th-greatest Dutchman of all time, with Cruyff finishing above Rembrandt 9th and Vincent van Gogh 10th.
Outside football, Cruyff's favourite sport and hobby was golf. In the Sandro Ciotti's documentary film Il Profeta del gol , Cruyff said, "I like to drive for the 20 km that separate the training camp from my house, it relaxes me. I love the cars. In , Cruyff was reaching the twilight of his career in Barcelona.
He began to imagine creating a range of footwear himself to challenge the technical and luxury qualities of those on the market beforehand. 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. Eventually he combined with his close friend, Italian designer Emilio Lazzarini, and using his knowledge he set out to create a technical shoe which managed to balance functionality with elegance.
Initially the range was filled with "luxury" indoor football shoes, but they quickly became used as a fashion shoe due to their attractive appearance. And so Cruyff Classics brand was born. Cruyff was a multilingual , as British football writer Brian Glanville described, "his intelligence off the field as well as on it was quite remarkable. How well I remember seeing Cruyff surrounded by journalists from all over the world in to whose questions he replied almost casually in a multiplicity of languages.
The Johan Cruyff Foundation [] has provided over Cruyff courts in 22 countries, including Israel, Malaysia, Japan, United States and Mexico, for children of all backgrounds to play street football together. Born in the heavily damaged post—World War II Netherlands , Cruyff came from a humble background and lost his father as a child.
Post navigation
This had a great influence on his future career and character. He was renowned for his strong personality. His character, both in and beyond the footballing world, was much described as the complicated combination of an idealist, [] individualist, libertarian, collectivist, romantic, purist, pragmatist, rebel, [] and even despot.
In August , Ajax players voted for Piet Keizer to be the team's captain in a secret ballot, ahead of Cruyff. And Cruyff decided his time in Amsterdam had come to an end. 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 ". The president of Ajax wanted to sell me to Real Madrid, Barcelona weren't at the same level as Madrid football wise, but it was a challenge to play for a Catalan club.
Barcelona was more than a club. This angered Cruyff and he responded by signing for Ajax's archrivals Feyenoord. 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. Cruyff's strong personality played a historical role in the eternal struggle between Puma and Adidas , the two rival brands that were born from the political divisions between the two Dassler brothers. At the World Cup, Johan Cruyff was under contract with Puma in a deal that prohibited him from promoting other sports brands.
As the tournament approached, Cruyff flatly refused to wear Adidas 's trademark three black stripes on his No. The Netherlands national football association had little choice but to honor the wishes of their best player, and Dutch officials eventually persuaded Adidas to design a separate jersey just for Cruyff, with just two stripes running along the sleeves. Until the s, players did not have fixed numbering — except in some short competitions like the World Cup or European Championship where players were given a designated number.
The starting players usually wore jerseys from 1 to 11 and the substitutes, from 12 to Cruyff's usual number was 9. However, in the locker room before the match, teammate Gerrie Muhren couldn't find his jersey number 7. Cruyff offered his shirt to Muhren and went to the basket to pick another one at random. It happened to be the number As Cruyff was the first player on roster, he would be number 1, but he refused and insisted to wear his lucky number Although the number 14 had become a trademark for Cruyff, he could be seen wearing his old number 9 on other occasions, like on most of his career for FC Barcelona , because the league demanded starting players were numbered 1 to 11, [] or for Netherlands in the European Championship.
Cruyff had remained a highly controversial figure throughout his life. Also, in his native Netherlands, there has been always a love-hate relationship between Cruyff and his fellow countrymen. He only cares about the result and doesn't care much for good football. He loves an argument, and his conflict-model method of working can be bruising. Battles with club presidents and teammates led to ruptures, especially at Ajax and Barcelona, the two clubs that defined his career. Cruyff was also well known for his vocal criticism and uncompromising attitude.
A perfectionist , he always had a strong opinion about things and was even loyal to his principles more than any thing else in the football world. I am Dutch but I support the football that Spain is playing. Spain's style is the style of Barcelona The Qatar Foundation , run by Sheikha Mozah , became the first shirt sponsor in Barcelona's year history. We have sold this uniqueness for about six percent of our budget. I understand that we are currently losing more than we are earning.
However, by selling the shirt it shows me that we are not being creative, and that we have become vulgar. In an interview with The Guardian ' s Donald McRae in , Cruyff said about football's lost values and how money had eroded the game's purity, "Football is now all about money. There are problems with the values within the game. This is sad because football is the most beautiful game.
We can play it in the street. We can play it everywhere. But those values are being lost. We have to bring them back. They started dating, and on 2 December , at the age of 21, he married Danny. Her father was Dutch businessman Cor Coster who also happened to be Cruyff's agent. He was also credited with engineering Cruyff's move to FC Barcelona in The marriage is said to have been happy for almost 50 years. The family has lived in Barcelona since , with a six-year interruption from December to January when they lived in Vinkeveen , the Netherlands.
In , Cruyff announced his decision to retire from international football at the age of 30, despite still being lean and wiry, after helping the country qualify for the World Cup. It was while still living in Barcelona as a player in late , Cruyff and his family became the victims of an armed attacker who forced his way into his flat in Barcelona. But for Cruyff, family comes first. In the interview with Catalunya Radio , he said that the attempted kidnap was the reason he decided not to go to the World Cup in Argentina in As he recalled, "You should know that I had problems at the end of my career as a player here and I don't know if you know that someone [put] a rifle at my head and tied me up and tied up my wife in front of the children at our flat in Barcelona.
The children were going to school accompanied by the police. The police slept in our house for three or four months. I was going to matches with a bodyguard. All these things change your point of view towards many things. There are moments in life in which there are other values. We wanted to stop this and be a little more sensible. It was the moment to leave football and I couldn't play in the World Cup after this. This was seen as a provocative gesture towards the then Spanish dictator General Franco, who had made all symbols of Catalan nationalism illegal.
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's decision to go to such great lengths to support Catalan nationalism is part of the reason he is a hero to Barcelona supporters and Catalan nationalists. The younger Cruyff wears "Jordi" on his shirt to distinguish himself from his famous father, which also reflects the common Spanish practice of referring to players by given names alone or by nicknames.
Cruyff once described himself as "not religious" and criticized the practices of devoutly Catholic Spanish players: And it stays with you. Cruyff is also said to have had an attachment to Jewish culture, having grown up in the Amsterdam municipal Betondorp populated by a sizeable Jewish community, and more prevalently because of his lifelong connections with Ajax Amsterdam — a football club with such strong Dutch Jewish influences that some have even dubbed it a "Jewish club". Football has lost a man who did more to make the beautiful game beautiful than anyone in history.
Cruyff had always been a heavy smoker from his boyhood until he underwent an emergency bypass operation in After giving up smoking following the surgery, he took to sucking lollipops when watching games. In October he was diagnosed with lung cancer. Writing in his weekly De Telegraaf column, Cruyff admitted, "Often the media are an additional tax, but the last week that has been different. The way in which a reply is posted via a variety of media in my situation, was emotional and heartwarming.
I am extremely proud of the appreciation shown by all responses. It's really annoying that it has been leaked so quickly, because the only thing I know now is that I have lung cancer. Because the investigation is ongoing. In mid February , he stated that he had been responding well to chemotherapy and was "winning" his cancer battle.
Cruyff appeared to be in good spirits and it is believed this was the last time he was seen in public. He was cremated in Barcelona within 24 hours [] following his death. A private ceremony was held, attended only by his wife Danny , children Chantal, Susila, and Jordi , and grandchildren. Today football has lost one of its best ever players and ambassadors. I am very sad because Johan was my childhood hero, my idol and my friend. Cruyff's death shocked the football world.
- Love Bites (Death Becomes Her Book 1).
- Available on.
- MORAL CERTANITY (Rosemary Cooper Time Travel Novel Book 1);
- Le bonheur de rompre (Littérature Française) (French Edition)!
- THE BIG SECRET That Makes Escape Arts “Work Like A Charm” (BULLYING ESCAPE ARTS.).
- People | Research groups | Imperial College London.
Cruyff's greatness was even respected by his rivals. I met him a few times after he left football, always playing golf, a sport he loved. He would always talk about football in the same way he did when he was playing and coaching—with plenty of passion and excitement. A legend has gone but he has left an important legacy. A friendly match between the Netherlands and France was held on the day after Cruyff's death.
The play at the Amsterdam Arena was stopped in the 14th minute as players, staff, and supporters gave a minute's applause for Cruyff, who wore the number 14 shirt for his country. 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". Former Israeli president and prime minister Shimon Peres paid tribute to Cruyff as a cultural figure and writing on Facebook: He was a role model who promoted world peace.
He brought the values of education into the game of football and proved that on the field, everyone is equal — Jews, Muslims, and Christians — that running fast and playing well will lead to victory in spite of discrimination and racism. Your work promoting sport and peace gave hope to children and youth around the world.
In his first week at the club, Johan Cruyff turned up unannounced at the 'Mini' stadium , a venue just down the road from Camp Nou used by the youth and B teams. 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.
Cruyff ignored the comment and told Rexach to move him into the middle for the second half, to play as pivot. It was a difficult position to adapt to and one not used by many teams in Spain at the time. Guardiola adjusted immediately, as Cruyff had suspected he would, and when he moved up into the first-team in he became the true fulcrum of the Dream Team. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For Johan Cruyff's son, see Jordi Cruyff. Cruyff with the Netherlands in I was born shortly after the war, though, and was taught not to just accept anything.
Johan Cruyff's miracles in Amsterdam were many. More important, they invented a new way of playing. Cruyff became the greatest exponent and teacher of 'totaalvoetbal' [Total Football]. His vision of perfect movement and harmony on the field was rooted in the same sublime ordering of space that one sees in the pictures of Vermeer or church painter Pieter Jansz Saenredam. It was the music of the spheres on grass. As a player, he turned football into an art form. Johan came along and revolutionised everything. Barcelona was not born in the last couple of years.
It was born, the style of play now, in the early 90s through Johan Cruyff. We showed the world you could enjoy being a footballer; you could laugh and have a fantastic time. I represent the era which proved that attractive football was enjoyable and successful, and good fun to play too. I haven't always been understood. As a footballer, as coach and also for what I did after all that. That's what you learn: He has enriched and personified our football. He was an icon of the Netherlands. Johan Cruijff belonged to all of us. Scores and results list the Netherlands' goal tally first.
Retrieved 13 January The Netherlands' Grand Master. Retrieved 1 July In , he scored two goals against Argentina in the quarter-final but without him in we just had the edge. He was a great player at a time when Dutch football was going through a great period and deserves to be considered as one of the all-time greats.
Archived from the original on 3 April Retrieved 22 September Retrieved on 18 January Retrieved 28 August Dutch flamboyance, German power and English spirit dominated the European Champion Clubs' Cup in the s, with clubs from those three countries winning the trophy every single year in that decade.
The s saw the flowering of some brilliant talent in the Netherlands, a hitherto relatively unheralded football country. Amsterdam -based side Ajax put the Dutch on the map by reaching the final of the European Cup in , but it was their Rotterdam-based rivals Feyenoord that ushered in a new European order the following year by taking home the trophy. The stage was then set for Ajax to galvanise the game. Masterminded by the dazzling attacking skills of local boy Johan Cruyff, Ajax swept all before them with their swashbuckling 'total football', in which defenders and attackers exchanged positions, leaving opponents bewildered and beaten.
Ajax lifted the Champion Clubs' Cup in , and , as well as winning the hearts of football enthusiasts. Retrieved 24 June There was also no rational reason why Dutch football should produce someone like Cruyff at the time that he began kicking around a ball in the East Amsterdam planned neighbourhood of Betondorp Until he pulled on the Oranje jersey, the Dutch national team had failed to qualify for a major tournament since before World War II. No Dutch side had won European silverware. It was very much a footballing backwater, as likely to spawn a guy who would change the sport forever as Jamaica is to produce the world's greatest downhill skier.
After a second appearance in , they did not appear in another World Cup until As Simon Kuper in "Holland, a Country of Clubs" noted, "The mere fact that almost everyone in Holland plays football cannot itself explain the country's success. Until the s Dutch football was mediocre. Holland would occasionally lose to Luxembourg, and considered their main rivals to be Belgium. Retrieved 24 March Retrieved 22 March Archived from the original on 31 December Retrieved 18 March Retrieved 16 November Daily Mail Online dailymail.
Retrieved 10 July Retrieved 2 July The Independent; accessed 24 October I'm a footballing romantic". The Guardian , 11 February Retrieved 30 May Dutch seeds of Barcelona success.
Follow the Author
Back Page Football 14 September ; retrieved 30 May How Guardiola revolutionized football" , CNN. Warrior or tika taka technician? I nearly joined Real Madrid ". Retrieved 20 October Retrieved 26 September A mortal with the potential of a superman ". Retrieved 9 April The Total Voetballer ". Retrieved 14 September International Football Hall of Fame.
Retrieved 29 September Retrieved 20 April Archived from the original on 16 July Retrieved 23 April The player, the coach, the legacy. Retrieved 18 July Retrieved 25 September Archived from the original on 29 October Retrieved 27 October A History of Football in Days". Retrieved 26 March Retrieved 28 October Retrieved 19 July The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football".
Archived from the original on 20 March Were Holland the last true innovators? Retrieved 18 October Retrieved 21 June Johan Cruyff —96 ". Retrieved 9 September Retrieved 24 July The legacy is clear, profound and present. Before Barcelona had won 10 league titles in their entire history and no European Cups; since then they have won 13 leagues and five European Cups.
But it is not about the trophies, or not only; it goes beyond that, to philosophy and identity. Winning, sure; a way of winning too. The night in the Dream died". The era of the 'Dream Team ' ". Retrieved 25 August The Daily Telegraph London. Retrieved 22 July Another Way of Winning. Archived from the original on 14 March Retrieved 29 July Retrieved 2 January Next Barcelona coach must follow Cruyff's philosophy".
Retrieved 26 May Retrieved 26 July Visionary who showed us Spain's got talent". The Sunday Times thesundaytimes. Retrieved 27 July Archived from the original on 30 July Retrieved 11 July Retrieved 29 February The world game, via AAP. Archived from the original on 28 August Retrieved 9 February Retrieved 25 October Retrieved 21 January The New York Times.
Retrieved 24 October Retrieved 3 December AS Roma Official Website www. Retrieved 27 August You could say he had all the necessary qualities for that position. Cruyff was a false nine because he'd play up front, then he'd pop up on the left wing and he'd also drop beneath the halfway line to pick up the ball and start move. Retrieved 13 June Retrieved 12 June The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football.
Retrieved 25 July Retrieved 23 March Perfect XI 1 April "". The game-changing wisdom of a true football legend". Retrieved 24 August Arsenal News Review arsenalnewsreview. Retrieved 31 August Archived from the original on 19 September Perfect XI 1 March ".
The whole of modern football". Retrieved 12 July Results without quality is boring. Be happy, express yourself and play. Make it special for you and for everyone watching. For the good of football, we need a team of invention, attacking ideas and style to emerge. Even if it doesn't win, it will inspire footballers of all ages everywhere. That is the greatest reward. Forever Spreading the Football Gospel".
Bleacher Report Media Lab. Retrieved 18 June But faith in the virtue of playing creative and exciting football remained the cornerstone of Cruyff's footballing beliefs. It marks him out from the vast majority of other coaches who, to a greater or lesser degree, think winning is more important. Being pragmatic is often a euphemism for winning ugly, and Cruyff has never signed up for that cynicism.
In the s, the win-at-all-costs mentality was epitomized by the Italian teams who played catenaccio , the Italian system focused on defending. Cruyff and his fellow Dutchmen became the heroes of those who wanted football to be more uplifting He sees winning and beauty as inseparable. He was once asked whether he'd be willing to play with a mainly defensive system to win the league.
He said no because it would be too boring. Cruyff's admirers don't just like the way he and his teams played.
365 Days of Queen Cee's Life Lessons
They believe the world could be a better place if his vision of football prevailed. Cruyffian football, they feel, is more beautiful, more fun and more spiritual than other approaches Until relatively recently, English football was synonymous with long balls, bad ball control and big, clumsy centre-forwards charging into lumbering centre-halves. Now, most of the top coaches at the Premier League's biggest clubs are either Dutch or heavily influenced by the Dutch.
Next season, Pep Guardiola will start converting Manchester City to tiki-taka. Retrieved 11 August I was straight in the garden to try the Johan Cruyff turn after seeing it on TV". Retrieved 28 July Archived from the original on 22 October Retrieved 30 July What matters is joy. Archived from the original PDF on 3 September Retrieved 8 August One of the most apparent differences between British and local players [South Americans] were their playing styles. The English values of gentlemanly behaviour dominated and impregnated the spirit of the game—they considered their most important aspects as strength, virility and physical stamina.
The British expected to find the spirit of the gentleman behind every player To the Creoles , soccer was a form of art, while the British executed it like machinery. One was graceful while playing and the other was more in tune with the technicalities of the sport. How We Play the Game". In the 19th century, the English invented football as a chivalrous substitute for war and played in straight lines with fixed formations. Brazilians thought of football as a platform for individual artistry. Retrieved 2 June Retrieved 7 October Pep Guardiola makes the team". Retrieved 8 October Spain's golden era is over".
Retrieved 1 October Who is the bigger Barcelona icon — Cruyff or Messi? Retrieved 21 July Ronaldinho made us global and Messi has made us universal. Men's National Team 1 August " , ussoccer. Dove tutto era e doveva essere gioia". Retrieved 24 September Is Tiki-taka simple or complex? Retrieved 27 September Josep Maria Bartomeu told La Repubblica: At the centre of every decision is the ball; if you treat it well, you will be rewarded.
We are a global club, respected and admired, with the mission to entertain. Retrieved 20 August People like Rinus Michels, who influenced his players too, because this is not an isolated way of thinking. 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.
The full transcript of Martin Samuel's fascinating meeting with the Arsenal manager — part I". Football Stories — Konbini. Retrieved 4 October Royal House of the Netherlands royal-house. King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands: Psychological Skills for Professional Services Ltd psfps. Europe's first football superstar". Retrieved 20 July Forever Spreading the Football Gospel 8 March , David Winner writes about the state of Dutch football until the mids, "the Netherlands was a third-rate footballing nation, its tactics and facilities stuck in the s.
Yet within a decade, the club and country had become the most important and admired in the world. Cruyff was the man who made it happen. Cruyff put Dutch football on the map". Ruud Gullit told Telesport: When Cruyff returned to Ajax in , the Dutch were sceptical. The Calvinist Holland of the time distrusted anyone who thought he was special. By now he was 34, with a broken body. Surely he was coming back for the money?
Retrieved 31 July Retrieved 22 August Retrieved 18 August And a club that gets three consecutive or five overall wins will get a special mark of recognition, the multiple-winner badge. The making of generations in football". Wales striker Hal Robson-Kanu on that Cruyff turn and the years he spent perfecting technique". Retrieved 6 August Como entrenador, un maestro. He was my childhood hero; I had a poster of him on my bedroom wall. He was a creator. I cried my eyes out when they lost. I was going to choose Cruyff as a player-manager because I loved his tactical brain. He was always thinking, he always wanted to improve his players.
I know what his teams can do as I watched from the stands as his Barcelona side beat United 4—0 in Retrieved 28 September Retrieved 17 July Rafa Benitez Official Website. When I was giving my first steps as a footballer he was a myth, an icon to follow. Afterwards, when I became a football manager, Cruyff was one of my references. For me, my idol was always Johan Cruyff. For me he has always been the greatest, not just as a player but also as a person He has been a point of reference for me.
It was his era, his moment — and he was the best in the world. For me, the best in history. Archived from the original on 2 July Retrieved 15 July Retrieved 26 August Archived from the original on 23 March That system is a Dutch system. Johan Cruyff exported it and played in that system. The Dutch used that system in in the World Cup in Germany. Johan Cruyff, who had been his captain at Ajax, followed two years later. Together, they established the school of soccer whose philosophy lives on in the modern Barcelona. They pressed high, they prioritized possession , they interchanged position.
They were also happy to flip between three and four at the back as required, something that was particularly true of the Barca side Cruyff coached in the early nineties. Until the start of this season, Pep Guardiola had, broadly speaking, stuck to 4—3—3 and its variants. But against Villarreal on the opening weekend of the season, Barcelona lined up in a 3—4—3. Letter L — Needs to have at least two syllables lollipop, label, luxury, lighthouse, lumber, lilac, etc. Remember to Follow My Blog to get your weekly reminders. I usually will respond to your entry on your blog, rather than on my page.
I like the eyes. This photo I know I use a lot on this blog, but the little boy is just happy. Qi energy hugs, Cee Share this: Floating Heads — Travel with Intent. I was thrilled when I saw it one day while I in Astoria. I have fun — picturesimperfectblog. Cee, smiles and laughter is the medicine ever!!!!
H is for… — Christine's Blog. I think your laughing Buddha might be a friend of my smiling horse. They probably are great friends…. Letter H — Topic for this week is Happy — iball round the world. H is for Happy lifelessons — a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown. H Shots and captures. How happy he looks! Love your post and the topic for this week! Of course , it is! Letter H — Happy Leya. Letter H is for happy: Letter H — Happy — Chateaux des Fleurs. Liquid Sunshine Heaven's Sunshine.
Career Advice to Find Better
Letter H — Topic for this week is Happy — Ladyleemanila. You gotta love that boat. It does make us smile. Letter H The Reluctant Photographer. Horezu Monastery — Romania. Color your day with Happiness. Happy — bushboys world. H is for Happy Ruined for Life: Happy — nancy merrill photography. Happy — Wanderlust and Wonderment.
Happy Manx, Tabby and Tortie: Happy — Stories and more. My Three Little Birds. I think that ship looks happy-ish. Cee's Fun Foto Challenge: Thanks for stopping by to visit.