How formed Johan Cruyff football culture Netherlands
How formed Johan Cruyff football culture Netherlands
Britain has "The Beatles" and "Stones". The Netherlands has Johan Cruyff. Their art is different, but the legacy that they left is equally important. Cruyff was not just a key figure in the tactical revolution in the 60s and 70s, who became Holland of empty space on the football map the most important football nation.
Cruyff changed the Dutchmen themselves, their identity. In an article on the occasion of his 50th birthday in 1997, writer Hubert Smeets claims that Cruyff has done more than anyone to form the image of the modern Netherlands.
Appeared on the big stage at the same time provosite (youth counterculture movement in the Netherlands in the 60s - br) and hippies, he embodies the spirit and ideas of the 60s, and so did John Lennon. Cruyff clashed with the football authorities, inspired, amazed and fascinated their contemporaries broke the old stereotypes. Old "regents" who ran the country, he was the voice of youth who said: "Now it's our turn."
Some of his teammates in the Dutch team who had to win the World Cup 1974 (Germany irresponsible losses in the final mainly because of arrogant self-confidence), also wore long hair and love jewelry, but Cruyff has never looked like a hippie. It was creepy keen and interested in the money. As he notes: "When my career is over, I can not go to the bakery and say:" I am Johan Cruyff, give me some bread. "
In the then still amateur world of Dutch football to play for the national team was considered an honor, but Cruyff was the first to ask for payment. When she found that officials of the federation have insurance when traveling abroad, and players do not have, he requested and received - change. He began to ask questions that his entire generation asks why things are organized this way? And he never stopped to ask - and on the field, and beyond.
Like the songs of "The Beatles" total football was born in Ajax, was the product of several notable talents that are mutually provoked and inspired. The coach Rinus Michels provide direction, professionalism and organization. Yugoslav veteran defender Velibor Vasovich train inexperienced Dutch guys how to fight and win. The doctrine of the high press - now a mass phenomenon, but a sensation in 1970 - came out of the habit of Johan Neeskens to persecute opponents deep in their own half.
And Cruyff was the genius behind the whole operation. He influenced the events on the field not only as the Gifted and inimitable player - on par with Diego Maradona and Pele - but by habit to make major tactical changes during the match itself, without even respecting the man on the bench.
Cruyff and Michels turned the game into a new race: whoever manages to control certain space on the field, he won the match. Thus they subconsciously modeled the entire Dutch culture. For centuries, local they found clever ways to exploit and control the space in its crowded and threatened by sea territory. This feeling is evident in the paintings of Vermeer, Saenredam and Mondrian. He attended local architecture and land tenure. Only one small step was needed to transfer in football.
The total football allow Ajax swept everything to win the European Cup three times in a row (1971-73) and the Netherlands to fascinate the world of World Cup 1974. Moreover, as Dennis Bergkamp once remarked, personality and ideas of Cruyff formed a football culture Netherlands .
Without Cruyff this philosophy would die early '80s - the time in which most of the "total football" went and defensive football became fashionable even in low land. In Ajax, however Cruyff quickly restore the "total" principles and then add their own ideas. Over the years they have become the new religion of Holland. Cruyff reorganized the school of Ajax to teach boys to play his style, and then repeated the same trick with a bigger budget and Barcelona. Today we take for granted that Spain is the land of elegant, thoughtful and creative football. Cruyff was the man who did this.
He loved to argue, was arrogant, suppressing and brilliant. Valued creativity, beauty, originality and attack aside negativity and boring protection. Thus developed several generations of the same characteristics.
Tragically, it never leads the national team, although at one time it looked to secure a World Cup 1994 (not realized by the federation for money).
However, all the great Dutch teams like playing with his spirit. They were sometimes violent, more often - beautiful and brilliant. Usually when they are the best team fail at the most important step. Subconsciously they followed the model of self-harm, marked the final in 1974.
Not everything in its path was smooth. His belief in "conflict model" - the idea that getting the best out of people by provoking fights and so raise the level of excitement and adrenaline - of Cruyff won enemies as easily as fans before.
Battles with club presidents and teammates led to sections, especially at Ajax and Barcelona - two clubs that have defined his career. He went to the "Nou Camp" as a player in 1973 but only because his teammates in Ajax it offended by Pitt voted Kaiser is captain. 23 years later, Josep Luis Nunez fired him as coach of Barca after Dream team started getting older. Cruyff got his revenge later when organizing the victory of his rival for president Joan Laporta.
In 1983 Ajax boss Ton Harms doubt that now 36-year-old Cruyff is still able to lift the leg stands. Mortified and angry, Johan went to Feyenoord and led him to take. His last fight was football at Ajax. Frightened by the sharp fall in the standard of the club in 2011 he organized a coup that old suit had been replaced by a group of younger former students have mostly Wim Yong and Bergkamp. The idea was Ajax again become a world center for football talent. But the main figures went, and at the end of last year after he was diagnosed with cancer, do it himself.
However, there is hardly any other figure in football who can boast two such illustrious career as a player and coach. Today it is hard to imagine the game without concepts such as press, without the idea of controlling the ball and the space without changing the positions of the defenders and attackers when the moment requires it.
Even his weaknesses can lead to positive things. As he says: "Every disadvantage has its advantage." His long feud with the best goalkeeper in the country Jan van Beveren as it makes sure Michels take Yan Yongblod World Cup 1974. Many then believed Yongblod too old and cranky (kept without gloves - br) but Cruyff was he noticed that he was good with his legs and exits. If used as an extra defender, the Netherlands could press even deeper opponent. Thus was born the concept of goalie-Libero. Without Cruyff unlikely we would have such a brilliant modern example of her as Manuel Neuer.
Cruyff was the correctness of the principles of beautiful and effective football than at a club or party (after the finals of the 2010 World Cup he took the side of Spain and criticizes the Netherlands for rough tactics, which described as "anti-football"). Arsene Wenger once said that it is impossible to reproduce again the total football of Ajax and the Netherlands since the early 70s without Cruyff is on the field. However, many tried. Amazingly large number of grandees today are directly influenced by him - Barcelona, Spain, Bayern and Germany are only the most prominent. It was with Arrigo Sacchi and all-conquering AC Milan in the late 80s, based on proteges of Cruyff - Ruud Gullit, Marco van Basten and Frank Rijkaard. And then invincible Arsenal from 2003-04.
All this happened because - says Arthur van den Bugard - Cruyff resolve "metaphysical problem" of football. I.e. if you play well in style "Cruyff" and have enough talented players will hardly lose. Eventually Cruyff turned out to be the father of modern football.
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