Johan Cruyff

Johan Cruff

HISTORY


Johan cruyff in his early stage had won the Ballon d'Or three times. He was famous with his football philosophy known as Total Football exploded by Rinus Michles. Currently, he is the Manager of the Catan national team and been regarded as one of the greatest player of all time.


BARCELONA


At Barcelona, Cruyff had won over the Barca fans to be FC Barcelona's Couch. This was happened when he make a press conference and he said, he chose Barca over Real because he could not play for a club associated with the Spanish dictator, Francisco Franco.


His presence at Barcelona was said to have changed many things and this was the beginning of what is known as the "Dutch influence" or tiki-taka at Barcelona. It was successfully adopted by the Euro 2008 and World Cup 2010 winning Spanish national team.

In 1988, Cruyff returned to Barcelona as manager and brought in players such as Josep Guardiola and Jose Mari Bakero. On 26 March 2010, Cruyff was named as honorary president of Barcelona, in recognition of his contributions to the club as well as both a player and manager.

Johan Cruyff with the Award Winning

Source:  Wikipedia