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// Cruyff 'Be invincible, win many trophies'

2nd Jun 2011 14:24:39

Johan Cruyff, his name is almost synonymous with the way football should be played. One of football’s legends, of which there are now many, no one is singularly seen to have impacted the beautiful game, I guess so beautifully. His career managed to incorporate controversy, achievement and disappointment, each of these was however encountered with the same phlegmatic pragmatism you would expect from such greatness.

 

Naturally Johan had to learn his trade somewhere and on his tenth birthday he joined Ajax of Amsterdam becoming a first team regular in the 1965-66’ season. He played under manager Rinus Michels for six years in a period that that Ajax started to dominate the domestic and European game. Michels took Ajax into the years of total football, a system that allowed players creative freedom freely interchanging positions, defenders straying into the attacking foray, while others having the discipline to fill in any gaps left. Essentially Cruyff was a centre forward, but he would ghost across the front line, stray onto the wings and drop deep linking up play with the passing midfielders and defender, kind of diddicoy of elegance. Success came with the revolutionary tactics and of course a batch of great players, six Dutch leagues and three European cups in the space of just eight seasons in the years up to 1973; a truly incredible achievement. It was said to have changed the way the game was directed and conducted, demolishing the defensive Italian tactics most feted by Internazionale, and successfully so, over the previous ten or more years.

 

 

The last two European Cups in ’72 and ’73 came under Istvan Kovacs, as Rinus Michels had departed to FC Barcelona, a path Cruyff was soon to follow. The importance in this step is almost a nepotistic agreement, you see Michels played under the original ideals of football in its completest during the forties under the management of Jack Reynolds. His ethos was then passed from father to son for the first time, in a footballing sense I hope you understand, and so Cruyff was to inherit the same philosophy from Michels.

 

 

Cruyff returned to Barcelona and constructed the ethic and station that we are still dazzled with today. Assembling a cast of galacticos, before galacticos were even aware they were such beasts: Romario, Hagi, Stoicov and Guardiola (yes the circle of life is now complete!!!). You see as Cruyff may not have been the first and only but he was the biggest exponent of the movement. Having played through the bright orange concourse of the two failed world cup finals in ’74 and ’78; having been with Ajax at the start of their dominance of all domestic and European, then at Barcelona as rug cut player and manager. We can surely count out his effect on Pep Guardiola at this station too, so in part he had a hand in fashioning the Barcelona and Spanish teams that are oh so lauded today. Lauded as possibly the most complete and devastating ever; I need not say more.

 

So on to the shoes; the vintage started in 1982 with the Recopa, roughly translated to ‘be invincible, win many trophies’ a moulded football cleated shoe, a shoe that is seen to be modelled in his own pioneering functionality and elegance. Famous players that adjourned in collusion include Marco Van Basten, Dennis Bergkamp and Vanenburg, all grew up with the Cruyff signature and C-flash donned in appreciation. The range expanded into running and hockey specific collections, and the Netherlands hockey team won two Olympic golds with the C-flash in toe. So the shoes like the great man himself are all encompassing and destined for success on the highest stage

 

The current line ties in with the timeless Cruyff style, the Recopa is still very much relevant and available, as with the Vanenburg endorsed trainer. The Recopa classic Black and classic silver show ingenuity within the colour scheme, bringing a bright flash into the design if you are looking for something more goading, well the man did invent his namesaked turn.

 

So if only out of respect I think we should all have at least one pair, maybe keeping our fingers crossed that I little magic dusted into the heels of each one. 

 

 

 

 

 

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