Cruyff, Johan

Cruyff, Johan

▪ Dutch athlete and manager
byname of  Hendrick Johannes Cruijff 
born April 25, 1947, Amsterdam, Netherlands

      Dutch football (soccer) forward renowned for both his imaginative playmaking and his reliable scoring. He won numerous honours in the game, including European Footballer of the Year (1971, 1973, and 1974).

      Cruyff joined the youth development squad of Amsterdam's Ajax soccer club when he was 10 years old; he was 17 when he made his debut with the senior team. After helping Ajax to win six league titles, four national cups, and three European Champions Clubs' Cups, he was transferred to Barcelona in 1973. Captained by Cruyff, Barcelona won the Spanish League championship in 1974 and was runner-up in 1976 and 1977.

      The temperamental Cruyff, along with Franz Beckenbauer (Beckenbauer, Franz) of West Germany, was regarded as the world's finest player in an era when the European game was dominated by “total football,” a style of play that emphasized all-around skill, versatility, and creativity. Cruyff debuted with the Dutch national team when he was 18, and in the 1974 World Cup tournament the Dutch team, led by Cruyff and including Johan Neeskens and Ruud Krol, put on a memorable display of total football that earned them the nickname “Clockwork Orange” (a name borrowed from the novel but inspired by the team's orange jerseys). Although The Netherlands lost to West Germany in the championship match, Cruyff's individual brilliance won him the tournament's Most Valuable Player award.

      After 1978 Cruyff played with several American teams, including the Los Angeles Aztecs and the Washington Diplomats, and he was named the North American Soccer League's Most Valuable Player in 1979. He returned to Ajax in 1982, first as a player, then as manager. In 1987 Cruyff coached Ajax to a Cup Winner's Cup, and he won the same cup in 1989 as manager of Barcelona. In 1992 he guided Barcelona to both the European Champion Clubs' Cup (now known as the UEFA [Union of European Football Associations] Champions League) and the UEFA Super Cup, but he was fired by the club in 1996. After his final coaching stint, Cruyff turned to philanthropy. He founded both a nonprofit organization to encourage children to participate in sports and the Johan Cruyff Institute for Sport Studies, which provides an education in sports management to former athletes and coaches.

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