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[110] [111] As a manager, Cruyff's tactics were influenced by the Dutch total football system in which he played a part during his playing career under his former manager Michels. [112] Cruyff often used a fluid 3–4–3 formation at Barcelona, or occasionally the 4–3–3 .
Johan Cruyff won La Liga four consecutive times as manager. During the first 29 years of Barcelona's existence, from 1899 to 1928, Spain did not have a just football league. So Barcelona competed in the championship of the Catalonia region, the winners of which qualified for the Copa del Rey along with the other regional champions. [2] [3]
Johan Jordi Cruijff (anglicised to Cruyff; born 9 February 1974) is a Dutch-Spanish professional football manager and former player and sporting director of professional football at FC Barcelona. He is the son of footballer Johan Cruyff. He played from 1992 through to 2010, including periods with Barcelona and Manchester United.
Johan Cruyff joined in the 1973–74 season. He was bought for a world record £920,000 from Ajax. [67] Already an established player with Ajax, Cruyff quickly won over the Barcelona fans when he told the European press that he chose Barcelona over Real Madrid because he could not play for a club associated with Francisco Franco.
The manager awards are being renamed as the Johan Cruyff Trophies, for the best men’s and women’s coaches. Hristo Stoichkov is magnificently on stage to deliver the trophy, alongside Jordi Cruyff.
The academic institution was founded in 1999 with a program for 35 athletes as part of the Johan Cruyff Academy [3] of Amsterdam and has since then become a global network. . In 2002, the Johan Cruyff Institute Barcelona was opened and established as the international headquarters, and the expansion proceeded to Mexico (2003), Amsterdam (2006), Stockholm (2011) and Peru (201
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When Michels himself later became manager of Ajax in 1965, he further developed this style around the team's main forward Johan Cruyff. [10] Although Cruyff was seemingly fielded as centre forward, Michels encouraged Cruyff to roam freely around the pitch, using his technical ability, creativity, and intelligence to exploit the weaknesses in ...