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Here we speak about popular soccer captains. Now we’ll tell you about Johan Cruyff.

Johann Cruyff was born in April, 1947 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Although the younger generation does not know him, but in the seventies of the last century this Dutch football was undoubtedly the best in Europe. At home, Johan Cryuff was awarded for 48 times and won 33 championships. Speed was one of his main advantages. And not only his speed, although he was very fast (he ran 30 meters for 3.8 seconds) but the speed of thought, decision-making was very important. He managed his speed greatly suddenly changing his movements direction at full speed and quickly switching the rhythm and tempo of his running. To get the ball from Cruiff was very difficult. He strongly stood on his feet and cleverly concealed the ball housing. Therefore could only push him away from the ball breaking the rules while Johan Cruyff penalty was really terrible for opponents’ goalkeeper.

Johan Cruif played in all segments of the field, he was good at his gate, do an excellent job in the middle of the field and had a perfect role of organizer, thanks to good field vision, intelligent play and accurate grazing. What he did in the field was difficult to understand. More precisely, it is not clear even to the experts not speaking of the ordinary fans. Johan Kruif once said: “the player holds the ball for five to seven minutes in the average. According to what he does with the remaining 83 or 85 minutes, you can judge its present form. We must quickly put a heavy task to the enemy so that he loses the ball. Try to bring your ideas to win.

To distract the goalkeeper and keep him is stress, cause confusion in the enemy’s defense, let the defenders apply their false methods, in short, affects their authority on the match”.

During his football career Kruif played in several European clubs, Ajax, Feyenoord, “Levante” and “Barcelona”, and in several North American clubs such as: Los Angeles “Aztecs”, Washington “Diplomats.” He was nominated as the best European soccer player for three times. As a coach, Johan Cruyff led the club to the victories in the Dutch and European championships. Plying for the team of Holland Johan won the World Cup – it was in the 1974 World Cup held in Germany, then he became the captain of the Dutch national team. The team easily reached the final, but lost in the final team of the legendary Franz Beckenbauer with the score 1:2.