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In 2004, the documentary film Johan Cruijff – En un momento dado ("Johan Cruijff – At Any Given Moment") was made by Ramon Gieling and charts the years Cruyff spent at Barcelona, the club where he had the most profound effect in both a footballing and cultural sense.
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 Cruyff Stadium (Catalan: Estadi Johan Cruyff; Spanish: Estadio Johan Cruyff) is a football stadium operated by Barcelona in Sant Joan Despí, Province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, located in the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper, the club's training facility and youth academy, about 7 km from the Camp Nou.
While Milan had never knocked Barcelona out of the European Cup, they beat Johan Cruyff's Dream Team 4–0 in the 1994 Champions League final, despite being the underdogs. [226] [227] In 2013, however, Barcelona made a "historic" comeback from a 0–2 first leg defeat in the round of 16 of the 2012–13 Champions League, winning 4–0 at Camp Nou.
Johan Cruyff: Barcelona [60] 1991–92 Netherlands: Johan Cruyff (2) Barcelona [61] 1992–93 Netherlands: Johan Cruyff (3) Barcelona [62] 1993–94 Netherlands: Johan Cruyff (4) Barcelona [63] 1994–95 Argentina: Jorge Valdano: Real Madrid [64] 1995–96 FR Yugoslavia: Radomir Antić: Atlético Madrid [65] 1996–97 Italy: Fabio Capello: Real ...
With the end of Franco's dictatorship in 1975, the club changed its official name back to Futbol Club Barcelona and reverted the crest to its original design, including the original letters once again. [42] [43] The 1973–74 season saw the arrival of a new player in Johan Cruyff, who was bought for a world record £920,000 from Ajax. [44]
On Barcelona's side, the rule saw coach Johan Cruyff choosing not to pick Michael Laudrup in his squad for the final, which caused Capello to state after the game "Laudrup was the guy I feared but Cruyff left him out, and that was his mistake". [2] Laudrup left Barcelona for their arch-rival, Real Madrid, at the end of the season.
The season is best remembered as the end of Johan Cruyff's era as Head coach after almost eight years. During the summer the club made the transfers in of Gheorghe Popescu from Tottenham Hotspur, [1] striker Ángel Cuéllar from Real Betis, [2] forward Meho Kodro from Real Sociedad, [3] Robert Prosinečki from Real Oviedo [4] and the controversial move of Luís Figo from Sporting Lisboa (a ...