Ajax Barcelona Cruyff

Author : Frits Barend
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780747543053
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ajax, Barcelona, Cruyff written by Frits Barend and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1999-02-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these interviews, Cruyff talks about how he learned his trade and how he went on to play for Barcelona and Ajax. He also explores the philosophy behind total football, the driving force behind the great Dutch side of the 70s and a style of football many top teams attempt to emulate today.

Author : Frits Barend
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780747546368
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best of Ajax, Barcelona, Cruyff written by Frits Barend and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Johan Cruyff
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1568585713
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Turn written by Johan Cruyff and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A personal portrait of the forefront European soccer star traces his early years with Ajax, the award-winning achievements that have made an indelible mark on Spanish soccer and his post-World Cup contributions as a coach and team advisor, "--NoveList.

Author : Auke Kok
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781398501676
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Johan Cruyff: Always on the Attack written by Auke Kok and published by . This book was released on 2023-04-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Terrific ... well-researched, well written' David Winner, author of Brilliant Orange 'Deeply researched...nicely written, and manages to get inside Cruyff's very bizarre head' Simon Kuper Argumentative, brilliant, arrogant, visionary. Johan Cruyff was one of the greatest footballers of all time, a worldwide phenomenon and arguably the most famous Dutchman of the twentieth century. Both on the pitch and from the sidelines as a coach, with his brand of Total Football he changed how the game was played and left a lasting legacy. Although Cruyff led a large part of his illustrious career and life in the spotlight, in many ways Cruyff the man and sportsman is still a complete mystery. Based on years of extensive research, this biography the first to cover all aspects of Cruyff's life and work, from his key influence in the great Ajax and Netherlands sides of the 1970s to his role in creating the modern footballing phenomenon that is Barcelona. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with friends from his childhood and school, coaches, teammates, on-pitch opponents, business associates and family members, Auke Kok has written the definitive biography of the skinny impish street footballer that became the genius player, inspirational manager, football philosopher and commercial pioneer that was Johan Cruyff.

Author : Johan Cruyff
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1509813934
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Turn: The Autobiography written by Johan Cruyff and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I knew nothing about football before knowing Cruyff.' – Pep Guardiola Johan Cruyff is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in football history. Throughout his playing career, he was synonymous with Total Football, a style of play in which every player could play in any position on the pitch. Today, his philosophy lives on in teams across Europe, from Barcelona to Bayern Munich and players from Lionel Messi to Cesc Fabrecas. My Turn tells the story of Cruyff's life starting at Ajax, where he won eight national titles and three European Cups before moving to Barcelona where he won La Liga in his first season, in 1973, and was named European Footballer of the Year. He won the Ballon d'Or three times, and led the Dutch national team to the final of the 1974 World Cup, famously losing to West Germany, and receiving the Golden Ball as the player of the tournament. Off the field his life was more turbulent, surviving a kidnapping attempt and bankruptcy. This honest and unflinching autobiography also explores his life after retirement, when he became a hugely successful manager of Ajax and then Barcelona when he won the Champions league with a young Pep Guardiola in his team. My Turn is the inspirational account of a legendary football hero, voted European Player of the Century, in his own words. In March 2016 Cruyff died after a short battle with lung cancer bringing world football to a standstill in an outpouring of emotions. A brilliant teacher and analyst of the game he love, My Turn is Johan Cruyff's legacy.

Author : Johan Cruyff
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1568585721
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Turn written by Johan Cruyff and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of Dutch soccer legend Johan Cruyff, whose remarkable life and impeccable style have influenced star players and clubs for decades Johan Cruyff embodied a footballing philosophy that now dominates coaching and playing styles in all the leading club sides around the world. You can dispute whether Cruyff was the greatest player ever -- he was certainly one of the top three -- but he is undoubtedly the player who single-handedly changed the nature of the game. My Turn tells the story of Cruyff's remarkable career, built on the techniques he learned playing in the streets of postwar Amsterdam while hoping to be noticed by the city's famous club, Ajax. He would eventually inspire that team to eight league championships and three European cups. He won his first of three Ballons d'Or at twenty-four in 1971. In 1973, Cruyff was sold to Barcelona for a world-record transfer fee. He led the Catalans to victory in La Liga for the first time since 1960, and went on to leave a lasting mark on Spanish soccer. In the 1974 World Cup, Cruyff propelled the Dutch team to the final for the first time. Cruyff's lasting influence, however, is not in the medals he won, but in the style of play he epitomized and then applied to the Barcelona and Ajax teams he coached. His vision of "Total Football" transformed the way soccer was played, and its dazzling fluidity became the basis of the most admired sides around the world. He was the sport's uncompromising genius on and off the field of play.

Author : David Winner
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408835770
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brilliant Orange written by David Winner and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-06-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Netherlands has been one of the world's most distinctive and sophisticated football cultures. From the birth of Total Football in the sixties, through two decades of World Cup near misses to the exiles who remade clubs like AC Milan, Barcelona, Arsenal and Chelsea in their own image, the Dutch have often been dazzlingly original and influential. The elements of their style (exquisite skills, adventurous attacking tactics, a unique blend of individual creativity and teamwork, weird patterns of self-destruction) reflect and embody the country's culture and history. This book lays bare the elegant, fractured soul of the Dutch Masters and the culture that spawned them by exploring and analysing its key ideas, institutions, personalities and history in the context of wider Dutch society.

Author : Graham Hunter
Publisher : BackPage Press
ISBN 13 : 0956497152
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barça written by Graham Hunter and published by BackPage Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FC Barcelona are the greatest football team in the world, the greatest for a generation and possibly the greatest of all time. This is the inside story of how the team came to redefine how the game is played, told by the journalist closer to it than any other. This edition contains a new epilogue reflecting on the departure of Pep Guardiola and Spain's victory at Euro 2012.

Author : Jonathan Wilson
Publisher : Nation Books
ISBN 13 : 1568588534
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Barcelona Inheritance written by Jonathan Wilson and published by Nation Books. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Cruyff's "Total Football" to the epic rivalry between Guardiola and Mourinho, a gripping chronicle of the rise and fall of Barcelona's dominance in world soccer. Barcelona's style of play--pressing and possessing--is the single biggest influence on modern soccer. In The Barcelona Inheritance, Jonathan Wilson reveals how and why this came to pass, offering a deep analysis of the evolution of soccer tactics and style. In the late 1990s, Johan Cruyff's Dream Team was disintegrating and the revolutionary manager had departed, but his style gave birth to a new generation of thinkers, including Pep Guardiola and José Mourinho. Today, their teams are first and second in the Premier League, marking the latest installment in a rivalry that can be traced back twenty-five years. The Barcelona Inheritance is a book about the tactics, the personalities, the friendships, and, in one case, an apocalyptic falling-out that continue to shape the game today.

Author : Karan Tejwani
Publisher : Pitch Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781801500692
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Velvet Revolution written by Karan Tejwani and published by Pitch Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glorious Reinvention looks at Johan Cruyff's call for change at Ajax, the peaceful takeover as former players took up high positions at the club and the success that followed. While the club's rebirth can't be wholly attributed to Cruyff's call for change, the Ajax and Holland legend had played a key part in their return to greatness.