#Johan Cruyff

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One club 🥹🥹

https://x.com/sureplexx/status/1856407470744261044?t=0Iqt7VhfTfh_XzHnsEpQXA&s=19

claudia pina, karate kick goal in homage to cruyff. aitana approves! 😄

source: daznwomensfootball

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johancruyff

(ig story, 28/10/24)

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Johan Cruyff (1974).

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iconicccccccc

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Johan Cruyff and Pep Guardiola 📸

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1988—1994: The era of the Barcelona 'Dream Team' (source: Mundo Deportivo newspaper archive)

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Memories at the gravestone.

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ballertober day 14!! two icons 🫡

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Footballers holding flowers.

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[...] We can, though, introduce one famous name who made a considerable mark upon him: Johan Cruyff, who came to the Barcelona track during testing at the start of 2016 to meet his fellow Dutchman. “It was a very nice conversation,” he says. “We knew that he was very sick [he had lung cancer diagnosed in 2015]. He was so keen to understand the world of F1 and I think he was very proud to have a Dutchman in F1 and maybe the next big thing, a hopeful. I tried to explain F1 to him. He told me stories from his days in football. “He also said, ‘With my disease, I feel I am 2-1 up at half-time, but we still need to get to the end.’ He felt very hopeful at the time; he’d just had a good few weeks, but then sadly a few weeks later he passed away. That really got to me. You keep on relishing those moments. He was way older than me, but somehow we clicked — the way we were communicating.” Two months after Cruyff’s death, Verstappen won his first grand prix, making him the youngest F1 winner. And it was there, in Barcelona. Verstappen sounds almost spiritual about this. He notes that his winning time — 1hr 41min 40sec — has 14 twice within it, and 14 was Cruyff’s number. “For me, something like that — it can’t be coincidence. It’s very crazy that that has happened,” he says. “I am never a person who really likes to meet anyone like a famous person. I am not interested. Zero interest. But I was actually very happy that I’d met him. “Then I read his book. I don’t like reading books. I think I’ve read two books in my life. The other was a school-related project, really boring. But with his book, the way he was talking about his sport, everything just seemed so simple in a way I could relate to because it may sound weird to say some things are very simple. Sometimes it just happens that way. For me it is. I don’t want to sound arrogant. “The thing is with people like him, they are so talented, when they are playing or racing, they have so much more capacity for other things to think about. I think that’s how he was when he was playing or coaching; his vision was so much wider than most other people.” Here, again, is where he believes he can relate to Cruyff: in having a brain that, when applied to his sport, functions with a wider vision or capacity. “I do like to think that having extra capacity is a big advantage in F1 as well,” he says. “You cannot train that kind of thing. Only a few drivers have it.”

Max Verstappen: I’ve already achieved everything in Formula One via The Times UK

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reading a great book on the history of el clàssic and shit, the more I read the more I realize just how much deeper than football this rivalry goes. I.e. Santiago bernabeu being one of the nationalist soldiers to march down Avinguda diagonal when Barcelona fell to the francoists in 1939. Gives so much more meaning to when Barcelona play in that stadium.

this is the book: https://www.amazon.es/Fear-Loathing-Liga-Barcelona-Madrid/dp/1568584504

oh yes, the barça-real madrid rivalry has way more background context than simply being just a football match. it's a symbol of the greater nationalist/franco vs. catalunya independence struggle. i mean there's a reason that mariona's new book has two different covers. one in catalan with her in the barça kit and the spanish version has mariona in the spanish national team kit. 😬

here is a good video from tifo football that touches upon the connection between barça and catalan independence:

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cruyff | army of me

wanna credit @cruyffista bc i got most of the pics from their acc

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>>> Collection Suits & White collar | Colors

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