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Johan Cruyff, football legend, dies at the age of 68.

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2016 12:52 am
by sevengoals
Goodbye Johan Cruyff.
With his anticipation and acceleration, Cruyff seemed to own the entire field of play. Only nominally a centre-forward, he was both orchestrator and predator, at one moment collecting a rolled ball from his keeper to start a move – one arm pointing as he barked orders to his team-mates – and the next materialising at the other end in front of goal for the coup de grace.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/201 ... f-obituary




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Re: Johan Cruyff, football legend, dies at the age of 68.

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2016 9:32 pm
by sevengoals
We have Cruyff's influence at United through Amor.


http://www.skysports.com/football/news/ ... dream-team
Cruyff’s arrival sparked the change. “I had short lads like Albert Ferrer, Sergi or Guillermo Amor; players without 
great physiques but who pampered the ball with their touch and pressed the opposition like rats,” he recalled. “Even Pep wasn’t all 
that physically, but with the ball he was intelligent. That’s what I wanted.”
http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/how ... lnVWLurjGA

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Re: Johan Cruyff, football legend, dies at the age of 68.

Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2016 12:31 pm
by mcjules
http://www.adelaideunited.com.au/articl ... 9yr6wof0et

Amor speaks wonderfully about Cruyff. Really good read.

Re: Johan Cruyff, football legend, dies at the age of 68.

Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2016 2:21 pm
by shinAUFC
http://www.adelaideunited.com.au/articl ... 9yr6wof0et

Amor speaks wonderfully about Cruyff. Really good read.
I dont mean to make this sad thread about Amor but IMO he is a true marquee. We are very lucky to have him in this country let alone adelaide.

Where would football be today without Cruyff when so many who have influenced the game learnt from him ?

Re: Johan Cruyff, football legend, dies at the age of 68.

Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2016 7:19 pm
by sevengoals
http://www.adelaideunited.com.au/articl ... 9yr6wof0et

Amor speaks wonderfully about Cruyff. Really good read.
I dont mean to make this sad thread about Amor but IMO he is a true marquee. We are very lucky to have him in this country let alone adelaide.

Where would football be today without Cruyff when so many who have influenced the game learnt from him ?
Cruyff had a huge influence on the modern game.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/201 ... game-dutch


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Re: Johan Cruyff, football legend, dies at the age of 68.

Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2016 4:02 am
by sevengoals
Johan Cruyff: ‘Maybe we were the real winners in 1974. The world remembers our team more’
http://www.theguardian.com/football/201 ... nald-mcrae
“Johan Cruyff was not scared of anything,” Txiki Begiristain recalls. The Dutchman’s players, on the other hand, were. At least to begin with, before he took them beyond fear. “When there are doubts, people tend to seek safety in numbers, to go with the herd,” Begiristain, the former Barcelona winger, says. “Not Cruyff. His first solution was always to be more attacking, more expansive. Three at the back and the centre-back is Ronald Koeman? Instead of full-backs, midfielders? Every time he sought a solution, he attacked more. And when he told us what he was doing, we thought: ‘Is he mad or what?’”

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blo ... ona-legacy


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