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Johan Cruyff RIP

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  • philcafc
    philcafc Posts: 3,883
    One of the best ever. RIP
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    Such poise, such balance, a shimmy here, a shimmy there and then a cross with the outside of the right boot. He needed a left foot as much as Puskas or Brady needed a right.

    RIP Johan
  • ken_shabby
    ken_shabby Posts: 6,255
    Just caught this on Radio Barcelona. Throat cáncer takes a genius.

    RIP Johann.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    One of the very very best. RIP
  • HantsAddick
    HantsAddick Posts: 2,423
    A true great. R.I.P.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,617
    RIP, two stripes.
  • Indigo Joe
    Indigo Joe Posts: 551
    Man was a genius. RIP
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,476
    Proper legend but not surprised as his smoking habit was legendary. RIP
  • Boysie
    Boysie Posts: 701
    RIP to a footballing legend
  • Hastingsaddick
    Hastingsaddick Posts: 4,079
    RIP...1st World Cup I can really remember was 1974 gutted when the Dutch lost in the final to the Germans....a very sad loss for world football.
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  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,998
    very sad, a true legend RIP
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,843
    Would be in most people's top 5 of all time - a true genius of the game.

    Very sad. RIP Johan
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    What I loved about him was his imagination, and his ability to innovate, not only the famous 'turn'.
    RIP one of the greatest players to grace the game we love.
  • Bangkokaddick
    Bangkokaddick Posts: 4,295
    Wonderful player. RIP Johan
  • Tutt-Tutt
    Tutt-Tutt Posts: 3,272
    Brilliant player. Just behind Pele & Maradona, and in the discussion with Beckenbauer, Puskas, Di Stefano, Best, Van Basten, Platini, & Zidane, as who follows next.

    Everyone knows the Cruyff turn, never seen on a football pitch before the 1974 World Cup. Fantastic skill, devastating pace over ten yards and a clinical finisher.

    His legacy is seen whenever Barcelona play. He took the Dutch Total Football concept created by Rinus Michels in the 60's, to Barcelona in 1975 & again when he became coach in the 80's. His philosophy was adopted throughout the club, especially in the academy. Guardiola carried it on with the development of Tiki Taka. Barcelona are what they are today because of Cruyff's Dutch philosophy.

    I only saw him play once, at Wembley v England in 1976. Today I'm privileged to say, I saw Cruyff play.
  • killer kish
    killer kish Posts: 2,019
    A real shock this and a true world class player.
    RIP
  • superclive98
    superclive98 Posts: 4,766
    Gutted. My favourite all-time player. Brought so much to the game as a p!ayer and as a coach/manager. Should have been a World Cup winner in 1974. RIP
  • LoOkOuT
    LoOkOuT Posts: 10,855
    RIP.

    2016 is not off to a good start. We're losing too many.
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,144
    Really sad. Seeing the photos of him in the Ajax shirt takes me back to those days when as a teenager I was bewitched by everything Dutch - RNI and the bands they played, that incredible Ajax team playing football like I never imagined, and him, the glittering jewel of that team. So effortlessly, quietly cool, none of the Ibrahimovic nonsense. RIP.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    A boyhood hero. R.I.P.
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  • I_was_Floyd
    I_was_Floyd Posts: 468
    Saw him play in a Fairs Cup match in the early 70's. Without doubt the finest player I've seen in person. As others have said, he made it all seem so effortless.

    A true football genius, RIP

  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,242
    Someone who left his mark on the game. Rest in peace Johann
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,350
    Bloody hell thats no age at all!!!!!

    RIP
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    Would never have happened if we never let in refugees/been out of Europe/had corbyn as PM

    we'll never find out what he thought of horse racing.

    RIP to an absolute legend of the game. Some one who changed the game for the better.
  • mid_life_crisis
    mid_life_crisis Posts: 3,263
    Legend, RIP.
  • GustavMailer
    GustavMailer Posts: 73
    There's a light that never goes out
    RIP 14
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,234
    Genuine superstar in the days where they were nearly normal guys. Had the pleasure of seeing him play in the flesh albeit towards the end of his career in the same Feyenoord team as a teenage Ruud Gullit. RIP.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    The word 'great' is often overused. Not in Johan Cruyff's case.

    RIP
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    cfgs said:

    Proper legend but not surprised as his smoking habit was legendary. RIP


    R I P
  • addickson
    addickson Posts: 891
    A fantastic player, RIP

    @soapy_jones he nearly signed for Dumbarton you know...
    http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/top-10-botched-transfers-you-might-not-know-about?page=0,6#:uBvf2aS9O2skzA

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