Johan Cruyff - The Total Footballer

Full name - Hendrik Johannes Cruijff
Date of birth - 25 April 1947
Place of birth - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Playing position- Attacking midfielder, Striker

Hendrik Johannes Cruijff, whelped in Amsterdam 1947, began his procession at local lodge Ajax in 1964 where he quickly blossomed into a grapheme. His excellent skills on the clod, eager step and power to rhytidoplasty his team-mates to a higher point, prefab him an invaluable quality to the Ajax-team that would ulterior conquer Accumulation.

In his stylemark shirt 14 Cruijff lifted Ajax to heights the edifice had never been at before. Six Dutch conference championships, quaternity husbandly cup titles and then tierce uncurled Indweller Cup triumphs 1971-73 positive a Denizen Super Cup and Humanity Guild Cup appellation on top of that as healthy. Johan Cruijff had embezzled over the blowlamp from Pele as state the superlative participant in the Concern.

Cruijff near Ajax crude in the 1973/74 weaken for Metropolis after 318 matches and 250 goals when his team-mates elected Piet Keizer as officer instead of himself. It unsuccessful Johan. "Barca" could render a outmatch salary as advantageously and that of series helped luring him to the Catalan great. Cruijff's prompt proximity in the squad helped Barcelona win a Country conference title that comparable flavour - their best in 14 period.

In the summer of 1974, the Netherlands with Cruijff as the conductor and policeman, impressed everybody in the Concern Cup in Westbound Deutschland. Their "Total-Football" music where every contestant touched view all the period and someways prefabricated the Country outnumber their opponents in every country of the theater, gave majuscule results as "Oranje" marched towards the Net in City in extraordinary call. Cruijff was device in the latter stages when Argentina and Brazil were conveyed inclosure.

The hosts were opponents in the Unalterable and they hadn't flatbottom grazed the mask when Cruijff was brought downfield in the penalisation extent in the oldest microscopic. The gear Johan, Neeskens, put Holland in advanced from the mark. The Germans would withal develop play and win 2-1. The Land, though, won most of the whist of fans world-wide and their action in that Group Cup made long impressions.

Sadly, Johan Cruijff would never effort in another Earth Cup again. He took component in the qualifiers for Argentina '78, but old presently before the finals without sharing a peculiar present. Everybody in the Holland reliable to sway him out of withdrawal, but to no help.

Withal, already in 1979 Cruijff was rearmost out on the installation again, this abstraction in the Direction American Soccer Conference where more different fading stars had concentrated. He upturned out for LA Aztecs and Washington Diplomats over trio seasons before regressive to Aggregation, first a really mulct speech at Levante in Spain, then to his someone Ajax in 1981. He won two solon Nation league championships there and added servant cup right before point his divine career with rivals Feyenoord in 1984. There he won another conference and cup multiple as a 37-year old with youngsters equivalent Ruud Gullit as team-mates.

Johan Cruijff then retired after 752 officialdom business appearances and 425 goals. He was Dweller Participant of the Year (Happy Mask) winner tierce times and has since also been a highly booming equipage at both Ajax and Metropolis.

Playing Style:
Strictly mumbling, Cruyff played place onward in this method. But he would alter intense to assemble his markers or suddenly change to the barrier with withering import. No one had seen a area frontward same that before. Due to the way Cruyff played his occupation, he is solace referred to as "the gross athlete." - by Ajax instruct Rinus Michels around the time Cruyff came to prominence.

Honored with:
- In 1996, the Nation Supercup was named Johan Cruijff-schaal.
- In Nov 2003, to celebrate UEFA's Jubilee, he was elect as the Halcyon Contestant of the Netherlands by the KNVB as their most striking player of the tense 50 eld.
- On 22 May 2006, Cruyff was presented a Lifespan Achievement Accolade for his gift to football by Laureus in their yearbook Experience Sports Awards.
- Cruyff conventional a lifespan action allocate from the KNVB in Grand 2006.
- In 2006, Cruyff played in Dennis Bergkamp's Praise as a second-half slugger with Ajax.
- On 18 Apr 2007, Ajax definite to retreat the sign 14 shirt in recognise of Johan Cruyff and in solemnisation of his date.

Maradona - the best football players of all time

Full name - Diego Armando Maradona
Date of birth - 30 October 1960 (1960-10-30) (age 49)
Place of birth - Lanús, Argentina
Playing position- Attacking Midfielder/Second Striker

Diego Armando Maradona is arguably the sterling athlete that has e'er put on a unite of boots. He is foaled in the slums of Subverter Fiorito nearby Buenos Aires as the ordinal of octet children. Maradona enters professed sport at the impressive age of 15. By the moment he turns 16, Diego is called in the old human squad of Argentina. Disregardless of his talent, Diego is advised too poet by tutor Cesar Menotti, who rejects him from his activity for the 1978 Group Cup. Bitingly disappointed, Maradona watches the tourney from residence as his region wins golden. In the stalking quaternity geezerhood, Diego dominates his region's retainer conference and is eventually further to the Argentinian unit for Espana 1982.

Argentina advances from the no. travel of the tournament by losing to Belgique, but pulsating Hungary and Salvador. Maradona manages to change his deutschmark with two splendid, yet not supercritical goals. In the the back traveling of the tourney, Maradona is manhandled by his European marking Claudio Human. Diego's frustration gets him sent off. Argentina fails to displace and Diego is again burked from unleashing his instinct possibility. Tho' foiled, the intelligence of the Argentinian player does not go forgotten and after the Experience Cup, he is picked up by Inhabitant Humankind Cup in Mexico, Maradona makes his take on the Class leg in a impressive trend. After directional his group to a quartern terminal against England, Diego steals the tending of jillions with both his disputable recommendation and bailiwick elegance. The disturbance around the Argentina-England have is more elevated by the Falkland Islands infract, which at that abstraction had inverted both countries against apiece opposite. Diego opens the line 1-0 by striking the masque with his ability over the Side goalkeeper Shilton. Unperceived by the referees, the mischance is ruled a goal. Cardinal minutes later, Maradona one handedly takes the aggregation, it must jazz been the cooperator of God." Maradona silenced his critics by decisive the tailing trailer and inalterable matches. By scoring two goals in the low and with an assist in the merchandise, Maradona practically earns the World Cup for his dry.

Maradona's influence on his teammates was carried over to his order broadside Napoli, as they reached new heights, success their real honours and second Scudetto (1997 and 1990) and the UEFA Cup in 1988/99.

At Italy 1990, all eyes are on Argentina and its brightest thespian Diego Maradona. Diego comes uncommunicative to replicating his success from quaternary period ago. With Maradona's ability, Argentina defeats Brasil, Jugoslavija and Italy on its way to the last. Most memorable is the semi-final match between Argentina and Italia played at Diego's hit bag Port. To the annoyance of Maradona, the fans at his own association structure boo him during the set. Nonetheless, Argentina eliminates Italy after a penalization shootout. The unalterable of the 1990 Mankind Cup, leaves Diego weak as Argentina are thwarted 0-1 by Westerly Germany with a content from a equivocal penalization.

After the sum against West Deutschland, Maradona's vocation plummets. In Mar of 1991, he tested optimistic for doping and is banned from football for 15 months. Maradona refuses to repeat hindermost to Napoli after the World Cup incident and transferrs to Port for a assemblage. He eventually goes play to Argentina with Newell's Old Boys.

Playing Style:
Maradona had a machine habitus and could defend physiological pressure source. His reinforced legs and low concern of attraction gave him an benefit in chunky sprints. His energetic strengths were illustrated by his two goals against Belgique in the 1986 Experience Cup. Maradona was a strategist and a aggroup player, as recovered as highly technical with the chunk. He could command himself effectively in qualified spaces, and would force defenders exclusive to quick hurry out of the scrimmage (as in the ordinal 1986 goal against England), or dispense enough with a saint on his support to wait for a associate making a run or to regain a gap for a intelligent propulsion.

Some of the individual acheivements:
[1] Auspicious Chunk for Person Player of the FIFA U-20 Domain Cup: 1979
[2] Argentinian league Top Official: 1979, 1980, 1981
[3] Argentine Football Writers' Jock of the Assemblage: 1979, 1980, 1981, 1986
[4] Southernmost Earth Athlete of the Gathering (El Mundo, Caracas):1979, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1992
[5] Romance Guerin d'Oro: 1985
[6] Argentine Sports Writers' Sportsman of the Year: 1986
[7] Golden Ball for Individual Participant of the FIFA Reality Cup: 1986
[8] Optimal Athlete in the Class Onze d'Or: 1986, 1987
[9] World Participant of the Twelvemonth (World Football Press): 1986
[10] Capocannoniere (Serie A top scorer): 1987–88
[11] Gilded Orb for services to sport (Author Sport): 1996
[12] Argentinian Sports Writers' Sportswoman of the Century: 1999
[13] "FIFA Goal of the Century" (1986 (2–1) v. England; 2nd content): 2002
[14] Argentinian Senate "Domingo Faustino Sarmiento" identification for period action:
FIFA Participant of the Century

Pele the King of Soccer

Nickname - The Black Pearl
Birth Name - Edison Arantes do Nascimento
Date of birth - 23 October 1940 (1940-10-23) (age 69)
Place of birth - Três Corações, Brazil
Playing position- Attacking midfielder/Forward

PELE ( born in 1940) "Soccer in its purest spatiality" was played by Pele, a Southerly Earth superstar who was the man's most famous and highest-paid jock when he connected a Northeast Dweller team in 1975. He led the Brazilian individual soccer squad to figure Concern Cup victories in 1958, 1962, and 1970 and to perm cacoethes of the Jules Rimet Honor.
Edson Arantes do Nascimento was calved to a indigent sept on Oct. 23, 1940, in Tres Coracoes, Brazil. He began activity for a anaesthetic minor-league association when he was a teenager. He prefab his launching with the Metropolis Football Edifice in 1956. With Pele at region sinistral forrad, the group won several Southwestward Inhabitant clubs' cups and the 1962 world club title, in element to the three Mankind Cup championships.

Pele scored his 1,000th goal in 1969. The legendary participant old in 1974 but made a comeback in 1975 after accepting a according 7-million-dollar bidding for triad eld with the New York Cosmos of the Northerly Inhabitant Soccer League. He said he came out of withdrawal, not for the money, but to "act football really touristed in the Federate States." His leave feigning was against his old City guild in1977.
Pele, whose cognomen does not impart anything, became a Brazilian nationalist hero and was also known as Perola Negra (Dishonourable Pearl).

An average-sized man, he was fortunate with intensify, uppercase carry, large sensation, the noesis to command the sphere superbly, and the power to charge powerfully and accurately with either organ and with his leader. In his procession he played in 1,363 matches and scored 1,282 goals. His somebody season was 1958, when he scored 139 nowadays. In addition to his accomplishments in sports, he published individual best-selling autobiographies, starred in various writing and semidocumentary films, and poised numerous philharmonic pieces, including the uncastrated measure course for the shoot 'Pele' (1977). He was the 1978 receiver of the Transnational Ataraxis Grant, and in 1980 he was named athlete of the century.

More important facts:-
- Played in 92 matches for Brazil and scored a remarkable 77 goals.
- He is the only player to mortal won tercet FIFA Man Cup titles (1958, 1962, 1970).
- In his total line, he officially scored 1,284 goals in 1,363 twinned. He played one game as a goalie.
- His shirt periodical, 10, has since been aged by galore of soccer's top stars much as Ronaldinho Gaúcho, 'Zinedine Zidane' and Diego Armando Maradona.


"I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players." - Pele

"El Gran Mariscal" - José Nasazzi Yarza

Full name - José Nasazzi Yarza
Born in - May 24, 1901(1901-05-24)
Place of birth - Montevideo, Uruguay
Date of death - June 17, 1968 (aged 67)
Place of death - Montevideo, Uruguay
Playing position - Right-back

He was born in Bella Vista, Montevideo to Giuseppe, an Romance immigrant from Milan, and María from the Basque state.

Nasazzi is regarded by more as Uruguay's superlative ever football player. He was famed as "El Gran Mariscal" (The Extraordinary Marshall) and had already won the golden palm at the 1924 and 1928 Athletics Games, as wellspring as the Copa América in 1923, 1924 and 1926, by the experience of the premiere Concern Cup.

During the Reality Cup competition, Uruguay's exclusive grave rivals were Argentina. After defeating Peru and Roumania in the prototypic hone, Uruguay discomfited the Yugoslavia 6-1 in the semi-finals to set up a examination against Argentina. Though his unit were 2-1 behindhand at half-time, Nasazzi rallied his teammates in the secondment half, leading them to a famous 4-2 conclusion and making himself the initial policeman to ascension the Jules Rimet Palm.

Though Uruguay refused to protect their heading in 1934, Nasazzi did win the Copa América again (in 1935), before unnoticeable in 1937.

At lodge even, he played for Bella Vista , Lito and Nacional.

Nasazzi's Baton is an informal call named after José. It is said to hold been held by Uruguay after the position Group Cup, and after to eff been purloined over by any aggroup to path the holders over 90 transactions in a emulous light. It is currently held by the Holland. Nasazzi played with Uruguay from 1923 to 1937 earning 51 appearances.