Johan Cruyff

Johan Cruyff

Birthday 1947-04-25

Height 176cm

Position FW

No. 14

Nicknamed Dutch trapeze

1964- 1973 Ajax

Barcelona 1973- 1978

1978 new york cosmos, USA

1978 Aztec, Los Angeles, USA

1978- 198 1 Washington diplomat, USA

198 1 Spain UD Levin club

198 1- 1983 Ajax

1983- 1985 feyenoord

Eight-time Dutch league champion

Two-time cup champion

197 1, 1972, 1973 European champion.

1969 runner-up in the European champions league

1972, 1973 European super bowl champion

1979, 1982 La Liga champion

1974 world cup runner-up

1988 Best Coach in the World

Five-time Dutch footballer of the year

Elected European Footballer of the Year three times.

1999 "the greatest European player" (selected by FIFA's history and statistics Committee)

Cruyff (1947-) Johan Gruyff (1947) was born on April 25th in a slum in Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. He lost his father in his early years and was brought up by his mother. When he was young, he sold newspapers and played football.

Nine years old, if Ajax club youth team. 1963, 16-year-old cruyff officially joined Ajax Food Club and became a young professional player, and soon became the core of the team. Cruyff's success lies in his creation of "nuclear tactics", which made Ajax rise rapidly, won honor for Dutch football and set off the third revolution of world football. Cruyff is the core of this tactical formation. He is cool-headed, full of skills, full of energy, high morale, fast running speed, agile movements, as elegant as ballet, especially good at long-range shooting, dribbling and forced breakthrough shooting.

Cruyff has achieved a lot. During his stay in Ajax, he won seven league titles, two cup titles and three European Champions League draws (197 1, 1972, 1973), 1 runner-up (1).

After 1973, he moved to Barcelona, Spain twice, helping the team win the National Cup and the Winners Cup twice (1979, 1982). From 65438 to 0978, he went to the United States and played for new york cosmos, the Aztec team and the Washington Diplomat team successively, with a good record. 1983, cruyff returned to Holland, joined Feyenoord team in Lu Dan, and led the team to win the national first-class league championship.

From 65438 to 0968, cruyff was selected for the Dutch national team and youth team. 1974, cruyff participated in the 10 World Cup as the captain. Performed "flying stunt" and won the runner-up. Cruyff is the best team in the world and is rated as the best athlete in the world. 1978, cruyff refused to join the national team, causing the Dutch team to stop in front of Yu Yajun again.

1984 in may, cruyff announced to hang up his boots. 1July, 985, became the technical director of Ajax Club and won the European Cup Winners Cup. Found the superstar Van Ba Siteng. 1988 was named the best coach in the world. In the same year, he went to Spain to coach Barcelona until 1997. During this period, he led Barcelona to win five league titles, 1 European champions league title and 1 runner-up. 1990 cruyff, who won the "Super Golden Globe Award", is one of the best superstars in world football in the 20th century. He was named Dutch Footballer of the Year five times, European Footballer of the Year three times and won the Golden Globe Award. This honor was given by Platini later. As a coach, his talent is also superb.

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Johan Cruyff

Few players can compare with superstars like Pele, beckenbauer and diego maradona. Although he has never won the honor of the national team and only participated in the World Cup once, johan cruyff can undoubtedly compete with these superstars. With his talent, the Dutch football legend has won an unquestionable reputation in the history of modern football.

Johannes Hendricks cruyff was born in Amsterdam on April 25th, 1947, the year after World War II. Because of his mother's work, he grew up in Amsterdam Stadium and the training center in Ajax. John 12 years old, his father died of a heart attack. From an early age, cruyff set his sights on one thing: becoming a professional football player. He started formal training at the age of seven. Despite his mother's objection,/kloc-dropped out of school at the age of 0/3, and has been focusing on the development of sports since then.

Legendary coach Rinus Michels discovered this emaciated young genius, and specially designed a training course for him, so as to improve his fragile physical fitness and enable him to withstand the harsh career in the future. Cruyff quickly won a place in Ajax's first team. 1966, 19 years old, he won the first of his nine Dutch league titles.

With superb footwork and never afraid of the opponent's tackle, cruyff quickly became the focus of international football with elegant and superb technology. He is the organizer of the attack, the last passer and the killer in front of the door. His passing ability is almost unprecedented.

He is also a leader off the court, confident and stubborn, and never gives up his opinion for fear of making enemies. But the result is not what he wants every time. 1972, after voting by Ajax teammate 13-3, he was removed from the post of captain. Arrogance in the interview is often the reason why he is accused. "I don't think that one day you will mention cruyff, and people don't know what you are talking about." Or "I won't make a mistake without making a mistake" comes from him.

Cruyff's speech is between frankness and arrogance, and the use of language is also subtle. He is also famous for his circuitous thinking logic when making long speeches. He always proves himself right at the end, leaving the frustration to his opponent. A famous columnist said that his language is like "pure prose". His words were also published in Dutch books and used in management seminars.

For one of the greatest players in history, cruyff's international career is very short. His first appearance for the Dutch national team was against Hungary in September, 1966, 10 helped the Dutch team qualify for the World Cup in Argentina for the last time in October, 1977. He played 48 games for the orange legion. In the last period, he will only be called up by the national team when there are important games.

Cruyff's greatest achievement in international competitions is to participate in the German 1974 FIFA World Cup finals. The Dutch team was not favored before the game and barely made it to the final. The players are not used to coach Rinus Michels's tactics. This magical team was unanimously recognized by the media all over the world as the most promising team to win the championship after the first round.

This is the football style of total football founded by cruyff. Although he is a center on the court, he is everywhere on the court and gives a great blow to his opponents. Other players regularly move and change positions according to the changes on the field. This tactic of the team keeps the whole formation unchanged, but the players in the same position often change. This is a revolution in football concept, which has brought a brand-new storm to world football.

This is what the Netherlands and cruyff presented to us. In the second round, the "master" scored by himself. He scored his first two goals in the World Cup in the 4-0 sweep of Argentina, which is also considered as the best game played by the Netherlands in this World Cup. In the subsequent match with East Germany, their momentum slowed down and they won 2-0. The last match of the second round group match is Holland versus Brazil, which is actually a real semi-final. After a hard game, the Dutch team struggled to pass 2-0. Cruyff scored the second goal of Holland, which was one of his best international competitions. The goal happened in the 65th minute of the game. cruyff received a pass from Klohr Klohr in the middle, dodged Leo's volley defense and shot the ball into the lower left corner of the goal.

Cruyff's outstanding performance was repeated in the final, which was a charming opening. Cruyff kicks off in the middle circle. After passing the ball 0/4 feet away from the Dutch player/Kloc-,cruyff suddenly threw the ball forward, threw off Fu Geci who was defending him, and was knocked down by Hones in the penalty area. Kniskern will be punished for this penalty, and none of the German players have touched the ball before. However, the Dutch team failed to keep the lead, but the German team found the feeling of the game. The host equalized the score with a penalty, which was surpassed by Gerd Muller two minutes before the end of the first half. In the second half, the Dutch team didn't have a chance to knock on the goal guarded by sepp maier, and finally missed the championship. Cruyff's title of the best player can only be a comfort.

During the German World Cup, cruyff announced that he would not participate in the next Argentine World Cup, mainly because he didn't want to leave home for so long. This reason, together with a series of quarrels with the Dutch Football Association, made cruyff end his national team career ahead of schedule.

However, cruyff's performance at the club is even better. From 197 1 to 1973, I won the European Champions Cup with Ajax for three consecutive years. From 65438 to 0973, he moved to Barcelona, Spain, and won the league championship that year. 1978 announced his retirement, and 1979 returned to join the NFL. He played in the United States for two seasons, and played less than 12 games for Spanish second-division team Levent before 198 1 returned to Ajax in Amsterdam. 1983 moved to feyenoord Rotterdam, Ajax's main rival, where he won the domestic double for the new team as a player. After he was 35 years old, cruyff still surprisingly played some of the best games in his career, and was named Dutch Footballer of the Year in 1983 and 1984. The best player in Dutch history once again and finally hung up his boots at 1984.

Although cruyff has no formal teaching qualification, he became the technical director of Ajax at the beginning of the 1985-86 season. In fact, at 1980, he indicated his intention to be a coach. At that time, it was the offseason of the American professional league, and he returned to the Ajax team in the Netherlands for training. In a Dutch league match, he walked off the stands and gave advice to Ajax coach leo beenhakker. Ajax trailed Twente Football Club by 1-3, but won 5-3. Although he left Ajax after coaching for three years because of the opposition of the club, he helped Ajax win the European Cup Winners' Cup at 1987. At the same time, it also cultivated young talented stars, such as dennis bergkamp, Aaron Winter, Brian Roy and Wizky's brothers-Rob and Richard. In the end, they all became versatile stars.

Like his experience as a player, cruyff left Ajax and went to Barcelona, where he worked as head coach and technical director. He rebuilt the team and drove away as many as 12 players, including German Behlander Schuster. He also spent150,000 dollars on nova. Soon, he established another top European team with distinctive style, and won the European Cup Winners Cup, the European Champions Cup, the King's Cup of Spain and four consecutive championships (199 1- 1994). In Spain, they are called "dream teams".

Cruyff's brilliant record makes him undoubtedly the king of the club stadium, and he works much longer than his predecessors. He almost returned to the World Cup as a coach, but his negotiations with the Dutch Football Association broke down at the last minute, which made him unable to lead the "Orange Legion" in the 1994 World Cup.

Johan cruyff broke up with them for the second time on 1996 after playing for Barcelona for eight years. Cruyff had to quit smoking because of the bypass operation of 199 1 and the recurrence of heart disease of 1997, and vowed never to be a coach again. As he hoped, he kept his oath-although his name was still mentioned every time the Dutch national team chose a new coach, he was still respected by the Nou Camp.

In the past five years, cruyff has been busy with two things: one is the johan cruyff Foundation, which is mainly used to help disabled athletes and fund sports medicine research projects; The other is johan cruyff International University, a school established by 1998, which mainly helps retired athletes to make a living in the future.

Football career

club

1964- 1973: Ajax Amsterdam (Netherlands)

1973- 1978: Barcelona (Spain)

1979: Aztecs in Los Angeles (USA)

1980- 198 1: Washington diplomat (USA)

1981:ud Levin (Spain)

198 1- 1983: Ajax, Amsterdam, Netherlands

1983- 1984: Feyenoord, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Club honor:

1966 Dutch league champion

1967 Dutch league champion

1967 Dutch cup champion

1968 Dutch league champion

1970 Dutch league champion

1970 Dutch cup champion

197 1 Dutch cup champion

197 1 European champions league champion

197 1 European footballer of the year

1972 European champions league champion

1972 Dutch league champion

1972 Dutch cup champion

1972 World Club Cup Champion

1973 Dutch league champion

1973 European champions league champion

1973 European super cup champion

1973 European Footballer of the Year

1974 Spanish league champion

1974 European Footballer of the Year

1978 Spanish king's cup champion

1982 Dutch league champion

1983 Dutch league champion

1983 Dutch cup champion

1983 Dutch footballer of the year

1984 Dutch league champion

1984 Dutch cup champion

1984 Dutch footballer of the year

International competition honor:

48 international games (33 goals), 33 times as captain.

1974 World Cup in Germany: runner-up and best player in the World Cup.

Coaching career:

1985- 1988: Ajax, Amsterdam

1988- 1996: Barcelona

Coach's honor:

1986 Dutch cup champion

1987 Dutch cup champion

1987 European cup winners' cup champion

1989 European cup winners' cup champion

1990 Spanish king's cup champion

199 1 Spanish league champion

1992 Spanish league champion

1992 European champions league champion

1992 European super cup champion

1993 Spanish league champion

1994 Spanish league champion