No one has changed football as Johan Cruijff. It was one of the five greatest players of all time – with Pele, Maradona, Di Stefano, Messi – and one of the best coaches of all time. Or are you a monster on the field, at or after the bench. He can not escape. The only one who has broken the taboo, the only exception in the history of football is he. Discuss football with Cruijff was like talking about painting with Picasso. He had a very strong vision. He knew he was the best in the things he did and he used this her look, always consistent, even intransigent – true to form – to infect others ending with them involved in one form of hypnosis, direct or indirect, personal, collective.
stories – I remember many years ago at the old Wembley, where he won the European Cup against Sampdoria of Vialli and Mancini, remember me impassively in front of a cop he did not enter the space that led to the press room area because it had not pass around his neck and then, no one knew who he was. It was not known? He remained motionless, without making a gesture or a grimace of discomfort, while those who accompanied him in disbelief began to protest: a statue, with blue eyes and steady gaze, by cobra. Those who have not seen him play that go searching on YouTube the start of the World Cup final of 1974, Germany-Netherlands. Everyone will find something in Cruyff or Van Basten Ibrahimovic or Messi. Surely in that fifteen steps with which the Dutch cross the field without ever touching the ball to the Germans (until Vogts not extended to the area Johan causing the penalty), there is a summary of what we have seen in recent years to Camp Nou and the Allianz Arena, and we continue to see Barcelona and Bayern.
in Spain – Spain, too – that was once full speed, grit and bustle – was brainwashed by the vision of Cruyff. The former La Roja after learning to dominate the field and the ball have become simply the Roja, European champions, world and even in Europe, playing the best football there, a kind of realized utopia, like that Holland seventies. Without the great Johan, Spain would never have become the new Brazil. There is a Cruijff in us, everyone has a sliver, a memory, something that has changed, a long wave, or at least one drone. But then remains the Cruijff itself, which for years has tried to calm the anxiety of seeing others play consuming tobacco, to get hurt to the heart and damaged lungs, thus opening the door to the disease that today has been completely removed the life.
mick jagger of football – There is a very Cruijff starting from the bottom, in Amsterdam, growing up in a poor family in the years after the war. There is a Cruijff who begins to play football on the asphalt, learning the tricks of those who do it on the street, and then transforms the old stadium of Ajax in his second home. Quell’Ajax become the best team in the world, the continuation by other means of what the Beatles, the Rolling Stones or the Doors were and will be for the music, not just light. Johan Cruijff is the Mick Jagger of the Total Football, what happy tear into the future entering into modernity as the cut on a canvas, handed down to posterity by the master Fontana. Cruijff has won championships and European players, has transformed the defeat in a World Cup Final in the longest and persistent victories, went on to win when he reached his guru, Rinus Michels, in Barcelona. He crossed the field the largest Italian teams, AC Milan of Rivera and Prati, Corso and Mazzola’s Inter, Juve and the Causio Bettega, lost and above all won, but you could tell he was going farther. The Sacchi Milan was born as an offshoot of that calcium and – just for a twist of fate – will the Rossoneri, as standardized by Capello, to mark the beginning of the end (4-0 in Athens, 1994) of his Dream Team Blaugrana . Just twenty years ago, in May 1996, Johan Cruijff was driven by Barca executives at the last stop of his parable on the bench.
latest masterpiece – Altero, prophetic and vengeful, the Dutch continued to affect the club also rimanendone out by extra-parliamentary. Until the beginning of this millennium – before all’imperversare the Galacticos of Madrid – a young lawyer, his lawyer Joan Laporta, has not won the elections and called him back to the bedside of a sporting club destroyed. There begins the last great masterpiece of the Master with Rijkaard, Ronaldinho, and then Messi and Pep Guardiola – who was its continuation in the field – and Messi, of course, up to Luis Enrique and Barça today. Prior to his arrival in Catalonia, the Barcelona was a team of opposition, without any particular identity: he complained of refereeing, suffered a syndrome of conspiracy against the central power Castilian and Madrid. His vision and his work, including the one on young people – over the years – allowed the Blaugrana to overturn the balance of power and to build hegemony: of the game, of style, of victories. Cruijff has taught us to believe in utopias and showed us how you can turn them into reality. A magnificent lesson. Philosophy is not smoke, and does not kill like tobacco.
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