Johan Cruyff Dead

[delboy1983]

Probably the most elegant player I have ever seen,glided across the surface as they tried to hack him down.
Tried the Cruyff turn once,fell flat on my arse

The Cruyff turn is am piece of piss, been doing it since I was 10 can do it with both feet to, it's very easy

Yeah then you woke up.

[Zambo]

One of the top top players.

RIP

[mistymorning]

Probably the most elegant player I have ever seen,glided across the surface as they tried to hack him down.
Tried the Cruyff turn once,fell flat on my arse

The Cruyff turn is am piece of piss, been doing it since I was 10 can do it with both feet to, it's very easy

Yeah then you woke up.

I have video of me doing it twice in a cup final aged 10 it's incredibly easy.

[delboy1983]

Probably the most elegant player I have ever seen,glided across the surface as they tried to hack him down.
Tried the Cruyff turn once,fell flat on my arse

The Cruyff turn is am piece of piss, been doing it since I was 10 can do it with both feet to, it's very easy

Yeah then you woke up.

I have video of me doing it twice in a cup final aged 10 it's incredibly easy.

That the year after you won the Masters

[kancutlawns]

Probably the most elegant player I have ever seen,glided across the surface as they tried to hack him down.
Tried the Cruyff turn once,fell flat on my arse

The Cruyff turn is am piece of piss, been doing it since I was 10 can do it with both feet to, it's very easy

You copied it like everyone else who was in awe of what Cruyff did. It's not like you had to genius to innovated it like the Dutch master did. There is a difference. And you probably fell over your feet two thousand times before, which is something you omitted to tell us.

[delboy1983]

I was a decent player,tried it during a game,made an absolute prawn of myself ,took a lot of stick and thought that I would just leave that to the genius that is Johann Cruyff.
Don't forget Misty once you have done the turn you still have to be in full control of the ball to go on from there.
Easy yeah outwith a game and no players tackling you

[mistymorning]

I was a decent player,tried it during a game,made an absolute prawn of myself ,took a lot of stick and thought that I would just leave that to the genius that is Johann Cruyff.
Don't forget Misty once you have done the turn you still have to be in full control of the ball to go on from there.
Easy yeah outwith a game and no players tackling you

I don't know what the ignitiondeal Iis there are much harder tricks that's very basic

[mistymorning]

Probably the most elegant player I have ever seen,glided across the surface as they tried to hack him down.
Tried the Cruyff turn once,fell flat on my arse

The Cruyff turn is am piece of piss, been doing it since I was 10 can do it with both feet to, it's very easy

You copied it like everyone else who was in awe of what Cruyff did. It's not like you had to genius to innovated it like the Dutch master did. There is a difference. And you probably fell over your feet two thousand times before, which is something you omitted to tell us.

Correct te difficult bit is inventing it not doing it, but no never fell over once

[Bad Blue 2000]

You copied it like everyone else who was in awe of what Cruyff did. It's not like you had to genius to innovated it like the Dutch master did. There is a difference. And you probably fell over your feet two thousand times before, which is something you omitted to tell us.

It's not difficult, my mate's eight year old does it all the time.

[Verum peto]

The ‘Cruyff Turn’; how many other footballers have produced something named for them. That’s posterity.

[The Ghost of Alex Higgins]

The Wilshere Hobble
The Walcott Stretcher
The Huth Elbow
The Sterling Flap
The Gerrard U-Turn
The Rooney Tantrum

Etc

[Basualdo]

The Wilshere Hobble
The Walcott Stretcher
The Huth Elbow
The Sterling Flap
The Gerrard U-Turn
The Rooney Tantrum

Etc

Gerrard slip and Rooney ransack surely?

[kancutlawns]

The Wilshere Hobble
The Walcott Stretcher
The Huth Elbow
The Sterling Flap
The Gerrard U-Turn
The Rooney Tantrum

Etc

Gerrard slip and Rooney ransack surely?

The Sturridge pole axed man-flu

[delboy1983]

Yeah 5 year olds are doing it and maybe some toddlers just learning to walk but strange there are not too many in the best league on the planet

[Robert Heenan]

A great footballer and one of the greatest ever. Passionate football fan and by all accounts was humble. Didn't need to resort to engaging in sordid behaviour in seedy clubs such as studio 54 with men of very ill repute nor did he ever steal money from a children's charity or pranced around the world as some sort of self publicity machine for greed and hubris and being a lapdog puppet poodle ambassador the corrupt powers. Nor did he need to engage in other lewd behaviour

A great man, full of dignity and honour and humility and it's people like the great Johann Cruyff that represent football and definately not the Jimmy Saville types

Rest in peace Johann Cruyff

[Reg]

by all accounts was humble

Don't think so.

Fantastic player, but had an ego the size of Big Al's heid.

Humble origins, mind. I think his mum was one of the cleaners at Ajax.

That Ajax side was like the Lisbon Lions Celtic side - virtually all of them were born and rises in the proximity of the club.

[theleader82]

A great player who always seemed to have total control of the football. He's in that elite group of players like messi,pele , zidane who helped elevate the game to another level.

[Man_called_sun]

by all accounts was humble

Don't think so.

Fantastic player, but had an ego the size of Big Al's heid.

This is true. He made Louis Van Gaal seem like Chris Powell.

[Robert Heenan]

A picture i really like from summer of 1982. The legendary Johan Cruyff with Diego.



Another one I love:

[Basualdo]

by all accounts was humble

Don't think so.

Fantastic player, but had an ego the size of Big Al's heid.

Humble origins, mind. I think his mum was one of the cleaners at Ajax.

Cruyff's distraught mother pictured in happier times.

[delboy1983]

Just been announced after tonight's friendly at the Amstel Stadium between Holland and France that the stadium has been re-named the Johann Cruyff Stadium ,fitting tribute to a genius

[kancutlawns]

It's been mooted that Barca's new stadium will be named after the great man too.

[delboy1983]

No fannying about like there would be in the UK,all done before he is put to rest

[finchman]

Jack Charlton rated Jowhan Cruff highly.

[Cherries fan]

Below is a video of the late Johan Cruyff playing for Feyenoord in 1983/1984 at the age of 36

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His first touch and technique was extraordinary but the bit i really really liked was the long range outside of his weak foot (left foot) pass he makes around 2:24 into the video - AMAZING!