RIP Johan Cruyff

A legend. Changed the way the game is played and was a major influence in what Barcelona has become today.
 
AK-47 said:
Widely considered the 3rd best player ever to play the game.

RIP meneer
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well i would say 2nd but in my youth i was fortunate enough to see him at his best so i may be a little bias :)
 
powerten said:
Total Football. The game will forever be in your debt JC.
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R.I.P. Johan. You were one of the best!!

Otherwise the first team who played total football was the legendary Hungarian Golden Team at the 50's, and the idea comes from their coach: Gustav Sebes:faint:

The great Ferenc Puskas commented: "When we attacked, everyone attacked, and in defence it was the same. We were the prototype for Total Football"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Team

No arguing that Cruyff built it to be perfection, but it wasn't his idea.
 
Sounds like Total Football isn't the right tactic if the objective is
to win the world cup final rather than perfection of the game
given both Puskas' team's defeat in 1954 and the Dutch's
in 1974 and 1978.
 
shack said:
I knew that was what you meant. Just pulling your chain
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Well I oughtta............

IRIS said:
R.I.P. Johan. You were one of the best!!

Otherwise the first team who played total football was the legendary Hungarian Golden Team at the 50's, and the idea comes from their coach: Gustav Sebes:faint:

The great Ferenc Puskas commented: "When we attacked, everyone attacked, and in defence it was the same. We were the prototype for Total Football"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Team

No arguing that Cruyff built it to be perfection, but it wasn't his idea
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This 1974 marked the game where Holland really put themselves on the map. Couldve easily finished 10-0......LOL.
I remember watching this game and almost feeling sorry for Uruguay


oil&gas said:
Sounds like Total Football isn't the right tactic if the objective is
to win the world cup final rather than perfection of the game
given both Puskas' team's defeat in 1954 and the Dutch's
in 1974 and 1978
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We will win that world cup some day playing Total Football, no worries there
 
Holland should have won the World Cup in 1990, they were by far the best team. Alas Berlusconi wanted the Triple and he didn't get it, Diego Maradona's won the scudetto on the last match of the season. By a single point. By the time they got to the World Cup, the core of the Oranje were burnt out. Van Basten played injured, he was nowhere near his Euro88 Championship form.
 
Hard to watch. Dutch TV show asking vHanegem how he feels??
Rumor has it those two didnt always see eye to eye, but the respect for each other was immense

 
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