Johan Cruyff He debuted in the Ajax first teamof Englishman Vic Buckingham, aged seventeen on November 15, 1964, at Amsterdam club is already a match lost to GVAV Groningen, replaced by current FC Groningen, 3-1. Johan is the author of the only goal of Ajax, who was exactly sixty years old. It was the beginning of a legendary career.
That happens Martin Koeman, father of Ronald Koemanthat match was played in the ranks of GVAV Groningen. Ronald himself, a few years later, began his football career in Groningen and eventually played under Johan Cruyff at Ajax, briefly, and later at Barça, where He scored the goal that won the first European Cup of the Barcelona club.
In that one, his first season in the first team For Ajax, Cruyff played 10 games, scored 4 goals and provided 2 assists. He has already met some players who will be part of the great Ajax and A Clockwork Orange with him, such as Suurbier and Keizer.
It was Cruyff promoted by Englishman Vic Buckinghamwho in December 1969 signed for Barcelona and, as coach of the Barcelona club, recommended Agustí Montal the signing of the young Dutch acewhich had already become a sensation in European football at the time, but Spanish football had not yet opened its doors to foreigners.
Then Johan’s first season In the first ‘ajecied’ team, Buckingham left the bench and was replaced by Rinus Michels, who in 1971 also replaced the English coach and finally in 1973 relied on Johan Cruyff at Barça.
LEGENDARY CAREER
At the end of his two spells at Ajax (between 1981 and 1983 he returned to make the Amsterdam club champions of the Erediviese again), Cruyff left a record as a player of 345 games and 250 goals, with 8 League titles (six in its first phase and two in the second), five Cup titles (4+1), 3 European Cups, 1 European Super Cup, 1 Intercontinental and 1 Intertoto Cup .
The Veterans Sitges Group organized on Thursday, November 14, a Johan Cruyff Memorial in which former ‘Oranje’ internationals and members of the ‘Dream Team’ participated.
Source: La Verdad
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