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.