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RIP Johan Cruyff
« on: 24 March, 2016, 12:48:41 pm »
Excellent player, unpronounceable name.
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Re: RIP Johan Cruyff
« Reply #1 on: 24 March, 2016, 01:47:47 pm »
Far too young but I suppose he paid for his habits.

Awesome player.
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Re: RIP Johan Cruyff
« Reply #2 on: 24 March, 2016, 01:56:21 pm »
An amazing player. I was immensely disappointed when Holland lost to Germany in the World Cup Final. Then there was this:-

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2008/apr/17/newsstory.sport
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Re: RIP Johan Cruyff
« Reply #3 on: 24 March, 2016, 02:33:56 pm »
Amazing talent who elevated the game.

Not many players have a move named after them.
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Re: RIP Johan Cruyff
« Reply #4 on: 24 March, 2016, 02:36:16 pm »
Sure.  The Ali Shuffle is the only other one that springs to mind.  Both giants.
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Re: RIP Johan Cruyff
« Reply #5 on: 24 March, 2016, 02:46:39 pm »
Pity he died too young.

Quote from: Wowbagger on 24 March, 2016, 01:56:21 pm
An amazing player. I was immensely disappointed when Holland lost to Germany in the World Cup Final. Then there was this:-

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2008/apr/17/newsstory.sport
Yikes!
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Re: RIP Johan Cruyff
« Reply #6 on: 24 March, 2016, 03:12:47 pm »
Quote from: Peter on 24 March, 2016, 02:36:16 pm
Sure.  The Ali Shuffle is the only other one that springs to mind.  Both giants.

Fosbury flop (if we're opening it up) and Gymnastics/Ice Skating are full of them (Alan Weeks banging on about "Triple Salchows" has stayed with me for 40 years)

I suppose sports where it's actually about specific moves being judged are bound to have new ones named after the originator.

A "Garyowen" in Rugby (Yes, I know it's a place) (Was Uppen Undar a Kiwi Rugby player?)

Not forgetting the Henman Hill.
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Re: RIP Johan Cruyff
« Reply #7 on: 24 March, 2016, 03:31:09 pm »
Football's full of them: Ronaldo chop, Berba(tov) spin, Bolassie flick...
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Re: RIP Johan Cruyff
« Reply #8 on: 24 March, 2016, 03:32:16 pm »
Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 24 March, 2016, 02:46:39 pm
Pity he died too young.

Quote from: Wowbagger on 24 March, 2016, 01:56:21 pm
An amazing player. I was immensely disappointed when Holland lost to Germany in the World Cup Final. Then there was this:-

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2008/apr/17/newsstory.sport
Yikes!

Fancy allowing your wife and children to influence "your" decisions!  Hopefully (and it can be no more than that)some of us who still love the game in spite of what it does to us are a bit more enlightened than that author.

RIP Johann.
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Peter

Re: RIP Johan Cruyff
« Reply #9 on: 24 March, 2016, 03:33:27 pm »
Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 24 March, 2016, 03:31:09 pm
Football's full of them: Ronaldo chop, Berba(tov) spin, Bolassie flick...

Except that nobody's actually heard of most of those, I suspect!
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: RIP Johan Cruyff
« Reply #10 on: 24 March, 2016, 03:49:34 pm »
Unless you're an 11-y.o. boy or father of one!
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Re: RIP Johan Cruyff
« Reply #11 on: 24 March, 2016, 04:50:55 pm »
The Zidane chest down.

I remember Cryuff in the 197mumble World Cup and that era. Wonderful to watch.
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Re: RIP Johan Cruyff
« Reply #12 on: 24 March, 2016, 05:10:58 pm »
Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 24 March, 2016, 03:31:09 pm
Football's full of them: Ronaldo chop, Berba(tov) spin, Bolassie flick...

Suarez chew...
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Re: RIP Johan Cruyff
« Reply #13 on: 24 March, 2016, 05:13:32 pm »
I've just been told Cruyff also invented the penalty where you pass to another player rather than shooting. Not sure if he was actually the first to do this, but maybe he popularised it.
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Re: RIP Johan Cruyff
« Reply #14 on: 24 March, 2016, 05:33:43 pm »
Quote from: Jaded on 24 March, 2016, 04:50:55 pm
The Zidane chest down.

I remember Cryuff in the 197mumble4 World Cup and that era. Wonderful to watch.
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Re: RIP Johan Cruyff
« Reply #15 on: 25 March, 2016, 12:07:58 am »
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 24 March, 2016, 05:10:58 pm
Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 24 March, 2016, 03:31:09 pm
Football's full of them: Ronaldo chop, Berba(tov) spin, Bolassie flick...

Suarez chew...

Sounds like something I would have asked for a 'quarter' of in the 1970s....along with 10 Number 6, or something like that.

Larrrington....you are, quite frankly...an utter disgrace.
But I had to laugh  :)

Liniker does a good job I think
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35892775
Great player.
RIP
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Re: RIP Johan Cruyff
« Reply #16 on: 25 March, 2016, 10:24:18 am »
Quote from: Von Broad on 25 March, 2016, 12:07:58 am
Larrrington....you are, quite frankly...an utter disgrace.

We aim to please...
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Re: RIP Johan Cruyff
« Reply #17 on: 25 March, 2016, 06:20:47 pm »
Quote from: Peter on 24 March, 2016, 03:33:27 pm
Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 24 March, 2016, 03:31:09 pm
Football's full of them: Ronaldo chop, Berba(tov) spin, Bolassie flick...

Except that nobody's actually heard of most of those, I suspect!

Never heard of any of them.
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Re: RIP Johan Cruyff
« Reply #18 on: 27 March, 2016, 03:21:23 pm »
I remeber as a kid being mesmarised by Hollands pervormances at the 1974 World Cup. Unfortunately thats the standard by which I measured football from then on, this has led to a great deal of dissapointmnet.
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Re: RIP Johan Cruyff
« Reply #19 on: 27 March, 2016, 06:05:58 pm »
Quote from: pcolbeck on 27 March, 2016, 03:21:23 pm
I remeber as a kid being mesmarised by Hollands pervormances at the 1974 World Cup. Unfortunately thats the standard by which I measured football from then on, this has led to a great deal of dissapointmnet.
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Re: RIP Johan Cruyff
« Reply #20 on: 29 March, 2016, 10:59:50 am »


I'm not quite sure what's going on there, but here it is.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: RIP Johan Cruyff
« Reply #21 on: 02 January, 2017, 11:21:15 am »
This is what Jonathan Wilson says about Cruff in his book Inverting the Pyramid:
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At the centre of that lay Cruyff, even at that stage very obviously the leader of the team. Young, iconoclastic and unselfconscious about ensuring he was paid what he was worth – itself a product of the new classlessness – he became an icon of the burgeoning Dutch youth movement of the time, the equivalent, the former Ajax youth coach Karel Gabler said, of Lennon in Britain. In 1997, in a piece in Hard Gras magazine marking Cruyff's fiftieth birthday, the journalist Hubert Smeets wrote that: 'Cruyff was the first player who understood that he was an artist, and the first who was able and willing to collectivise the art of sports.'

Cruyff was not a Provo – his conservatism in such matters as family values was diametrically opposed to their beliefs – and yet he shared with them an awkwardness, an anarchic attitude and a love of provoking the establishment. Most famously, he refused to wear the three Adidas stripes on his shirt during the 1974 World Cup, honouring his contract with Puma by insisting on wearing only two. 'The Dutch,' Smeets went on, 'are at their best when they can combine the system with individual creativity. Johan Cruyff is the main representative of that. He made this country after the war. I think he was the only one who understood the sixties'.
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Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Re: RIP Johan Cruyff
« Reply #22 on: 05 January, 2017, 12:43:44 pm »
Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 24 March, 2016, 03:31:09 pm
Football's full of them: Ronaldo chop, Berba(tov) spin, Bolassie flick...
The Cantona flying kick.
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Re: RIP Johan Cruyff
« Reply #23 on: 05 January, 2017, 01:04:33 pm »
Don't forget Frank Rykard's styling manoeuvre.
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