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—Cruyff in a documentary on TV3 channel (2015). Hendrik Johannes "Johan" Cruyff was born on 25 April 1947 in the Burgerziekenhuis Hospital in Amsterdam. He grew up on a street five minutes away from Ajax's stadium, his first football club. Johan was the second son of Hermanus Cornelis Cruijff (1913–1959) and Petronella Bernarda Draaijer (1917–2007), from a humble, working-class background in east Amsterdam. Cruyff, encouraged by his influential football-loving father and his close ...
Apr 21, 2024 · Johan Cruyff (born April 25, 1947, Amsterdam, Netherlands—died March 24, 2016, Barcelona, Spain) was a Dutch football (soccer) forward renowned for his imaginative playmaking. He won numerous honours, including European Footballer of the Year (1971, 1973, and 1974).
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Mar 25, 2016 · Johan Cruyff: the revolutionary who changed how the world saw football. Richard Williams. Slender, swift and lithe, the Dutch master saw football fundamentally as a creative activity, and used...
Mar 25, 2016 · 25 March 2016. World Cup legends - Cruyff. By Phil McNulty. Chief football writer. Johan Cruyff, who has died at the age of 68, was one of football's greatest and most significant figures....
Mar 24, 2016 · Johan Cruyff: 'An icon of the Netherlands'. Netherlands footballing great Johan Cruyff has died of cancer aged 68. Cruyff, who made his name as a forward with Ajax and Barcelona, was...
Nov 7, 2022 · By Alex Bysouth BBC Sport. 7 November 2022 World Cup. In the fourth of our World Cup icons series, BBC Sport tells the story of how Johan Cruyff and the Netherlands' Total Football captured the...
Mar 24, 2016 · Johan Cruyff, who has died aged 68, wasn’t merely the best footballer of the 1970s, he also reinvented football. It was as if he was the lightbulb and Thomas Edison in one. “Football is a game...
