Former Netherlands footballer Johan Cruyff believed that goalkeeper is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender ...

‘El Salvador’ was some mythical figure. Johan Cruyff had gone on a wrecking tour of Europe, inspiring Ajax to three straight European Cups, smashing the world-transfer record, and performing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The late, great Johan Cruyff: Soccer's transformative figure of the 1970s Johan Cruyff, widely considered one of the greatest ...

He’s won six league titles as coach of Barcelona and Bayern Munich as well as two Champions League finals with the Spanish club. But for Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola there’s no bigger title ...

Jan Olsson later admitted he was totally taken for a ride. So deceptive was Johan Cruyff in that moment of magic.

The life of late, great Dutch soccer star Johan Cruyff is the subject of a doc from Drive to Survive producer Box to Box Films and Dutch firm Lusus. The currently unnamed doc is the first to be made ...

This piece first ran on ESPN FC on March 24, 2021 Written underneath the statue of Johan Cruyff outside Barcelona's Camp Nou stadium is the phrase "Salid y disfrutad" ("go out and enjoy"). It's what ...

Dutch soccer legend Johan Cruyff was one of the best ever in the sport, and a pleasure to watch on the field. He died Thursday at the age of 68, after a battle with cancer. I was 9 when I first saw ...

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Arguably the greatest footballer to have hailed from Europe, Johan Cruyff, has been diagnosed with lung cancer. Responsible for inventing the “Cruyff Turn” – a football trick still seen across school ...

Johan Cruyff is number 6 in 90min's Top 50 Great Managers of All Time series. Follow the rest of the series over the course of the next week. If you were looking to describe the late great Johan ...