Johan CRUYFF
Second Striker
Other Positions
AM – ST
178cm x 67kg; Right Footed; Prime 1970 – 1975
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Info Box
– Known as “The Flying Dutchman”
– Create a move called the “Cruyff Turn“
– A versatile and charismatic player blessed with superb speed and dribbling skills
– Comes deep to get the ball
– Dictates tempo
– Knocks ball past opponent
– Likes to beat man repeatedly
– Moves into channel
Additional Skills
A free spirit of Oranje, Cruyff is the ‘68 of football, an absolute star, stubborn, tenacious, and prickly, yet he is also pure aesthetics, present everywhere and doing everything.
He recovers the ball, dribbles, assists, shoots; he is a splendid scion of the great Di Stéfano, sharing his intelligence and superb vision, though not reaching his limits.
One either loves or loathes good Johann, for he transforms a modest Ajax into immortality and nearly achieves the miraculous with the national team.
