Sunday, March 27, 2016

How man named Johan Cruyff reduce TV

Several days ago we lost the great Johan Cruyff.

Nowadays it is fashionable to like Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi. Ideologist of modern football is another - Johan Cruyff, whether there is a child on the planet who wants to buy exactly his shirt? You will say - Ronaldo and Messi
can not exist because of Cruyff, they are another school. Hmm? Who knows? Cruyff gave simple rules that do not cheapen football, but it rose. You do not know how to file teammate? Just do not smash the ball at his feet and in front of him. The game did not you go? Pass several times closest to you to restore confidence in the game. That sort of thing ...

Truly revolutionary, both as a player and as a coach. He managed to recreate their views and feelings about the game. The Dutchman is the epitome of fashion dictator in football. Legendary № 14 is a collective image of total football, a "Dream Team" -a and "tiki-so" simultaneously.


Johan Cruyff was subordinate to the game and lived with her until March 24, when he lost a battle with cancer. As wrote The Sun: "Heaven has its new playmaker!"


Any player or coach in the Netherlands in the 70s and 80s of the last century have learned from Cruyff. Not only they were taught, studied it, and wrote Simon Cooper. Cruyff is the father of Dutch football. He did everything for him, both good and bad. As every father, by the way.


Johan Cruyff known in childhood in the neighborhood as Hendrik Johannes, grew up a hundred meters from the stadium of Ajax and spent most of his childhood around the locker room the team. Thence derived his philosophy of football. When making his debut at age 17 in 1964 (Ajax lost 1: 3 from GVAV), the Dutch have no tradition in football. Until then, they are involved only one World Cup in 1934th.


Two months after its debut, the new coach of Ajax Rinus Michels parked his Skoda second hand to the stadium. Why second hand is not clear, but two. Two brilliant thinkers of football find each other. As Lennon and McCartney, they often quarreled among themselves, certainly not one to drive Skoda's, but together make a revolution in the Dutch and world football.


Cruyff says the paradox is that you need to achieve mastery on the ball even before he touched her for the first time. Led his teams Ajax and Netherlands passing the ball faster than any other team. Distributed his passes with one touch, quickly. For them, the idea of ​​football was like a dance in space. This style of play is called "total football" and for the Dutch is known as "Dutch school". Although his real discoverer was an Englishman - Jack Reynolds, who led Ajax before World War II.


Years later, suggesting mildly respect Ajax defender Barry Hulshof will remember: "We discussed space over the field. Johan Cruyff constantly talking about where one should run and where to stand and not move!" The famous Italian coach Arrigo Sacchi comes back to the Dutch national team of the early 70s: "I had the feeling that the TV screen is too small for this team - I need to see the whole field when playing the Netherlands!"Johan Cruyff terminated twice his career as a footballer - first in 1978 and, then in 1984. These are the strangest years in the career of this giant ... Like how he almost does not appear in the UK, but not Liverpool, Arsenal or powerful then Nottingham. In the summer of 1981 and Johan Cruyff is a step away from signing with ... Leicester. Like magic, however, his stay in the northernmost part of England is frustrated by the quick actions of the bosses of the Spanish "Levante". But undoubtedly the strangest transfer Cruyff would take place a year earlier ... Dumbarton, ladies and gentlemen, Dumbarton - otborche of Scotland Group B would be a peaceful place for genius Cruyff. Cold and foggy weather, however, makes the Dutchman at the last moment to throw in the basket already prepared a contract with "Sons" as known this club in Scotland: "I decided that I was too old to go to Scotland, given the weather there. When you're 33, your muscles are already understood from the cold and this creates problems! " It certainly was the most unfortunate day for fans of Dumbarton and then manager - Sean Phelan will remember years later: "Cruyff was difficult financially after losing almost all their money in a bad investment. We felt that several thousand pounds more could tempt him ... "ultimately Irishman, who legendary Dutchman in its composition was fired the following year, acknowledges that" the whole exercise "was more successful PR ...


In 1985 and Cruyff became coach of Ajax and Michels - the national team, and soon the Dutch start to play again as Dutch. Great players who earn only significant trophy for the Netherlands at the European three years later - Marco van Basten, Frank Rijkaard, Ronald Koeman and Ruud Gullit - all have played alongside Cruyff. Their coach the national team was Michels, but the man who was Cruyff criticized them. These players were his spiritual sons.


The success of Johan Cruyff in Barcelona is destined, because he knows how to get the most out of the academy, how to find serial talents and turn them into stars. "He built the" cathedral "- our work after it was to preserve and renovate!" Words are Pep Guardiola, who started "the building" with the first "Dream Team" in the 90s. Four of the managers of the teams in the Top 8 of this year's Champions League also passed through the "Cathedral" - except Guardiola are Luis Enrique, Laurent Blanc and Louis van Gaal.The attitude of Cruyff football sometimes cost him dearly. He admits that fascinated by the game, often forget about the result. The legendary Dutchman always require their teams to play beautiful football. "I'd rather fight 5: 4 to 1: 0. To insert should Bend. If You're holding the ball, the opponent can not play with it. Football is a very simple game, but to play simple football is the hardest thing. "The words of Cruyff speak volumes about his philosophy on football, to understand his game. At the World Cup in 1998 the Netherlands was one of the best teams that performed magnificently, but failed to become world champion.


Cruyff did not care that in modern football players run 12 kilometers, which is three times more than the run to miles of players in his time. "Do they make haste in the right direction?" Asks Cruyff. He despised physical training that made a revolution in world football in recent years. Mythical and to this day remain the love relationships of this slender football magician smoking ... As a normal image is perceived in the golden years of Ajax Cruyff and company principals to relax before an important match in Europe with party bridge and a cigarette in his mouth. Or ten puffs in the toilet before put Feyenoord to consecutive victory in Holland.


"Cruyff turn" or so-called "Flip Cruyff" is part of the magic that will forever remain beyond this football bohemian ... Like any beautiful romance can not describe with words, but you just have to see! Fintan, which is now mandatory for every pimply adolescent player is shown for the first time at the World Championship in Germany in 1974, and his first victim is the Swedish iron defender Jan Olsson. "At first I thought I took his ball!" Admitted years later he, at the same time it is light years away and sighs stadium.


"I lead with 2: 0 score - I'm sure I will win in the end!" With this remark at the beginning of last month Hendrik Johannes Cruyff gave hope to all who loved romantically beautiful in this game, which is increasingly becoming a powerlifting athletes with a bodybuilders. Obviously was heavily second half and even worse overtime. All connoisseurs of Johan Cruyff knows he has lost the way in penalties because he could not beat shootout ...

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