Dutch - Athlete | April 25, 1947 - March 24, 2016
When I don't have control of the ball, what do I do? I press to get it back. It's a way of defending.
Johan Cruyff
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When I was playing in the Ajax youth teams - when I was, say, 14, 15 - you started to get all those international youth tournaments. All those English teams came. Well, the English were much further than we were.
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Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake.
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I'm not religious. In Spain all 22 players make the sign of the cross before they enter the pitch. If it works all matches must therefore end in a draw.
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Italians can not beat us, but we can certainly lose against them.
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To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent.
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Without the ball, you can't win.
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The disabled people that do sport, they don't think about what they don't have but try to get better with what they do have. That is the same for me.
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My foundation now has some 120 football pitches laid out for children, a lot of them immigrants. We live in a multicultural society.
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When I don't have control of the ball, what do I do? I press to get it back. It's a way of defending. But more important is that I like to have the ball. That's why I believe in individual coaching sessions to prepare players properly.
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If you take golf, you have a teacher for the drive, a teacher for the approach play, and a teacher for the putt. That's three specialist coaches for one player. In football, one coach looks after 25 players.
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Football is now all about money. There are problems with the values within the game. This is sad because football is the most beautiful game. We can play it in the street. We can play it everywhere.
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