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+vacantplanet Look at it the other way, at least Cruyff was able to show his tactics. If it weren't for tv you never would have been able to have that glimpse, however brief it was

No hope!

+vacantplanet There's no hope for humanity because a person who used to kick balls can't explain fully why a new generation, who earn more money than countries, can't kick balls as well as he did? Yes, hope is indeed lost for all humanity.

+Hashmat Ali please shut up

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I just gave a like... so that now you can have 343 likes

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As someone with adhd...I wholeheartedly agree😂

Would cry

Aryle Kennedy no he won’t, he would cry about Ajax

@@Dhr_Luke why ajax is exect doing wath he explain now

kanker uuhm ok?

@@lakaz6451 he means tears off happiness

RIP to the legend

Hazim Fitri not really

Why not? Money > Cruyff

@@syaifulrizki3916 no

@@pedroh.4962 yes. cruyff is overrated

I think not 😂

Mario LmaoOo

Mario total Voetbal

Those of who didn't understand Johann mostly played with a 433 formation

@@fargo1234 he played with a diamond..

+Lorenzo Franco Throw in Bielsa, and I'd pay $1,000,000

Lorenzo Franco I think it's better to let retired managers do the job. Pep would probably not like to put his cards on the table with all the motivations for his opponents to exploit.

lol pep

Pep learned from cruyff btw he said cruyff openend his eyes at barcelona

Lorenzo Franco who do u think taught Pep and Javier and Inesta and puyoll etc and all those before them! JC 🇳🇱

+CT27NX I agree with your take on his tactics, and you've better explained it than myself! but I think we must both agree that there's so much layer to this man's tactics.. truly one of a kind!

Yup Technically it isn't diamond it is triangle A triangle of 3 ends,3 options Remember Triangle is the figure which uses least number of straight lines to make a complete figure For cryff A triangle formed every sec in field completes his tactic I suppose..

Rohith Walter yeah you could see that constant triangle option constantly I. The way Barca have played it over last ten years. Always always someone there available for an outlet to move the ball constantly. It’s something to behold to keep it up like that

yups... system... not a formation

I think he meant asymmetrical diamond haha

I just gave ur comment 433 likes

@@myreplytoyourstupidity4445 i was about to comment ‘lol 433 likes’

Cruyff was like that yes Like many dutch coaches 😂 But he's the GOAT forever, so he's right

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Well there’s only one thing he didn’t win, and that’s the World Cup, players like him, messi, ronaldo deserve to at least have won one.

@@theonlyjoe_ cruyff deserves the west germany one germany actually used a bit foul play to defeat him and his team

@@theonlyjoe_ world cup is completely luck based. if he was born in a stronger country that wins world cup all the time would that make a difference? no his skills would be the same regardless of what team he is in. winning world cup is a personal victory for you and your country, it generally adds nothing when you compare him to other players. if messi was french or german or spanish would that make him worse or better? no people would just say he was lucky while ronaldo wasnt.

@@xondeez757 you misread the context of an 8 month old comment, I can’t even

GOAT? One of the goats. That's true.

and was a legend

+DFandV He is a legend

anton123456789 Fair enough, his legendary will continue forward.

But still he costed the Netherlands a World Cup.

zidane you meant 😛😛😛

and Spain

now chelsea playing 3-4-3

kadrope qwq

All the great teams play like this at some point, but they make inversions based on the opponents strengths and weakness

@@MeneTekelUpharsin not anymore. Ajax proved last CL how to really play like this. Not that fake shit.

instantsurgery not quite. He's saying that he draws his diamonds differently

instantsurgery he is the most genius football player/ coach To have ever lived on this planet

u don't need Diamonds when u have Messi or R 9 or someone of this caliber !!!

skidmaster ybother No player, not even Messi would reach the full potential among world class players if a manager doesn't draw out the lines well. Messi wasn't used in a right way by Rijkaard in his early Barca times and he is nearly invisible in the Argentinian squad. A top class manager makes top class players peak in their carreer and gives him the right role surrounded by the right support.

instantsurgery I

Now Ancelotti blay with the diamond formation and it's so effective

very true but in uk the so called experts only think 4-4-2 exists and nothing else, no brain no philosophy behind it. The experts praise players with heart and courage but with no real talent it can only get you so far, England haven't learned to pass the ball yet properly with meaning.

Don't be fooled, this type of program is not on tv regularly in the Netherlands. We have a talkshow wherein journalists discuss the recent domestic and international football events but nothing like this trust me. I wish it were a reoccuring thing though. (I live in the Netherlands btw.)

lol you think a tv show produces talent? what a fool

Zico Kun it might not produce talent directly but it certainly produces enthusiasts...it's all about inspiring young..would be coaches to actually start thinking more about the game than they currently do...you're the fool if you can't see that

Couldn't agree more! The Dutch have Cruyff............and we have Alan Hanson. While this is unusual,but after watching 5minutes of NOS Sport with the likes of Jack van Gelder chatting with van Hooijdonk or Ronald de Boer is like a lifetime education when compared with the banal drivel of MOTD. nuff said

The thing is whoever's old than the current , people would say he's better . I agree on that , sayin n letting People do the thing u want is different . Tiki taka was never Barca's style but he created it. False on paper seems like diamond but it's different , u can't play if u don't have the likes of Messi or Maradona . Fabregas played but not for long n the reason is known. Cruyff had ideology n pep followed but he has his styles too. Look at city ,they may not have ucl but can u analyse the game ? It's very dynamic n prolly best after Barca 2011. Cruyff imo is the best but in current era ? Name me anybody better than Pep .

@@realog868 Zidane, Heynckess and Ancelotti are better coaches than Guardiola and Mourinho is equally great. Heynckess won both the Bundesliga and the Champions League with Bayern Muncih and Guardiola took the team the year later and was unable to win the Champions League despite having the same team than Heynckess. Heynckess also won the Champions League with 2 different teams (Madrid and Bayern) while Guardiola won 0 Champions outside Barça. Ancelotti won the Champions League in 2 differnt teams (Milan and Real Madrid), smoething Guardiola never achieved. In fact, Real Madrid in 2013-2014 played the best football at club level ever, destroying Guardiola's Bayern 0-4 at their home stadium in the Champions League. Guardioal won the Champions League in 2009 thanks to robbering Chelsea, the referee did not call 3 or 4 clear penalties. With VAR, Barça would have never defeated Chelsea in the 2009 Champions League. Then you get Zidane, who is the only mister in the hsitory of football to win 3 consecutive Champions League titles, smoething Guaridola never did. And Mourinho won the Champions League on 2 teams (Oporto and Inter), soemthing Guardiola never achieved. But because mourinho had really bad seasons in CHelsea and Manchester, I would say he is euqally good as Guardiola.

@@jameswalker6864 getting trophies and coaching a team for the betterment of players depends upon certian things n probably very different things imo . When Zidane won his consecutive league titles ? Except for first season, the football he played was shit n there's no denying fact. That man was on par with Valverde if u analyse their games , both used Messi n Ronaldo as their main target n nothing more , winning a UCL is often based on luck rather the quality of players n there r multiple examples on that , talkin' abt Gaurdiola , his management time is just 10 years while the others been on the same page with more than 25+ years . The difference of 15 years is huge , it's a not like Pep's never achieved anything with Barca n city , last year he won almost every trophy except UCL n lost to Tottenham coz of luck rather than football tactically , Talkin' abt Winning UCL with different teams , we both know this season City has the best chance of winning it . As u said Barca won coz of the robbery 😂 ik they did n I agree but what abt the robberies made by real ? Scoring an offside equaliser against Atletico Madrid in the 92+ minuted , Zidane couldn't hold the league title nor the CDR. When u talk abt all the other things. Why don't u talk abt he's the only manager in the world with 2 Trebles ? of we talking abt Humiliation games , the oke that comes to my mind is Barca vs Bayern 7:0 coz that was the only time when a team who played better football on the pitch than Pep's team . Last 2 Ucls won by zidane were probably coz of UEFA so when u accuse Barca of that ? I think u should say the same thing for Real madird as well . Incase u don't know , real already won 5-6 Ucls in a row , I don't knw the year. SAF won just 2 Ucls with United ? One of the greatest teams ever so according to ur logic SAF is nothing 😂. We both know Pep could have achieved more if he had stayed at Barca but he moved . Then we have the thing that Pep took over Bayern which had won UCL in the previous season , well Pep has set his standards so high that people wants him to win the UCL every single year n winning that as I already said depends upon different factors not just on management , Barca before he took control was not a world-class team at all while they're below 3 in Laliga , UCL campaign was shit n so were the other campaigns n in 2007-8 season Barca didn't win anything while in the very next season by letting the likes of deco , Ronaldinho go ? He won every possible trophy. But some people just criticize , when he was at Barca - people said it's an easy league n everybody can win it with that team , when he was at Bayern - people said anybody can win it with that team but he didn't win ucl so he's a flow n not to mention he didn't spend anything in good amount there as well as in Barca n these were the times people said he can't win league in p.l coz it's hard but he won 2 seasons straight 🙂 n then we've people who say he won coz of the money ? Really ? United has spent the same amount as city but where r the trophies ? Liverpool spent 600M but couldn't win a single p.l ? Another thing I prefer Pep over anybody is how he utilizes new talent n creates them. I don't think u even saw when porto won the ucl , teams at that time were next to nothing n he played the same game there as well by parking a plane . Sayin Mourinho is on the same page as Pep is a crime lmao and one more thing that I forgot to add is , when Pep coached Barca ? Spain won the w.c ( Spain's golden days started when pep started to coach them n ended when he left Barca , Germany won the cup with same tactics too ) both del Bosque n J.Low didn't change anything in the team n played the same way as Pep was playing coz Germany National team = almost Bayern n Spain's national team at the time had 9 Barca players in the starting eleven. U can see the inspiration there , upcoming generation of Managers would dig for Pep more than anybody.

@@realog868 you wrote a whole essay 😂

@@realog868 Scoring an offside goal at 92? That one is so wrong lol...92 minute goal was in 2014 when Ancelotti was the coach.The one you're referring to had still lots of time to play.We can't know for sure how things would've played out.The fact of the matter is Madrid has Atleti's numbers in UCL while Atlei does the same against Barca in the UCL.In the league it's a different story.The only team Madrid has a huge difficulty against in any competition is Barcelona and they were the last one to knock them out decisively in the last decade...like you feel they got properly outclassed in both legs.. It's a different story with teams like Bayern, Dortmund etc.one leg they were clearly a worse team...the other leg they're better or at least on par with them....

thepedro j . not every thing goes back to him ,, we had better players before and after him , he had a philosophy like all the big coaches ; but he was great !!

skidmaster ybother There were no better players before or after him.

Bollocks, Rinus Michels was the Dutch coach back then and he insisted on Holland playing that way.

Don't forget that he was thought this system by rinus michels. Who copied it from Brian Clough.

I think Zidane's mind is better. He perfected the diamond and perfected a Madrid with the same 12 that won 3 in a row. He got the most out of every player and had the whole pitch covered

A man ahead of his time? or a man who has inspired our time?

​@@samuelbeirne4173why not both?

He is van Basten. Show some respect

@@aspiringscientist1616 no jan mulder

Its quite funny how he starts his explanation by saying that people have different ideas and definitions as to what the diamond is, and as he starts explaining what HIS diamond is, he is told that his interpretation is wrong. In reality both guys are probably right to some extent. To cruyff the fluid diamond is a team based on the diamond, where the diamond is maintained and the team shifts to maintain it, while the other guy (dont know his name) thinks the diamond can be broken out of and into during the match depending on the necessity of the situation. Both approaches probably have a great deal of merit to them.

+Michael daniel agree mate... Barcelona's triumph in this year's Liga should be dedicated to his memory.

My else is here

My 2

Representing for a little US futbol.

An absolut abomination of a language, it should be forbidden! gebrooken Taal

Just you lmao

Mr potatohead just like many other coaches.. Koeman wouldn't be where he is without van gaal

Oh you mean loosing 4-0 to everton? Guardiola has always been an overrated manager.

And that's being said by him already, guardiola just the developed the system but Cruyff started a whole revolution in the world of football, such a mastermind kaizer

oh you mean winning premier league with 18 points ahead the second and reaching 100 points

Lambda Sigma look how far we’ve come

So fucking annoying. Today we have to pay him so much to talk like this on TV, and yet they cut him off for a comercial, a disgrace.

@jurriaan Adema right :(

you cant do that to a legend,in todays world if someone did that they would get punched

+Ronald Alexander damn, you're right

Ronald Alexander

I'd always put Ribery in over Costa and Boateng for Martinez

The advantage of playing Martinez in that position is that he can use his range of passing to start attacks. He acts as the libero like Luiz at Chelsea.

actually martinez in the benatia position and boateng in the current martinez position. The problem was that the team was too ofeensive. WHen attacking both martinez and boateng would act as holding midfielders leaving the team vunerable at the back. I also noticed that the team was better with coman on the right as he is a true winger. Cruyffs tactics (or peps tactics) needed the winger to stay out wide to put in crosses to muller and lewa

We had his teacher (Rinus Michels) and we won EC (1988) and 2nd place in WC (1974).

BallsofStyle michels wasn't his teacher. It was all Cruijffs id.

Michels did do a lot of things for Cruijff and he was a teacher, but their relationship was not always good

Agreed

RS also WC 1978 and WC 2014 second place. It’s just about quality of the players and some luck.

lol

El Indio Yeah and he was a better manager... Won 2 Champions leagues with a team from the English championship so what's your point?

byron wilkinson Forest weren’t from the Championship back then, they were the top of prem.

ッReeq nope they were not top of the prem which did not exist then. Also they were not top of the league then, but among the top 3. Please get your facts right. Nor did he have players like cruyff had in the Barca dream team..... Clough was by far the better manager. There is and cannot be any doubt about that

Udayon Sen Top 3 is top mate, most people I talk to consider top 4 just top of the league. And yeah sorry forgot about there wasn’t a prem then lmao

).+Stuart Graves Funny, what I first thought when I heard Cruijff passed away, was that he was football David Bowie. And then I realized they were born the same year (1947) and died the same year (only Bowie did turn 69).

that hits hard....

Pele and Maradona have a market train, hence why they're the players on everyones tongues. That's not to say they weren't great players, they were some of the worlds best, but a lot of players like Cruyff and Platini get left in their shadows.

@@zohaibc96 @Zeus market train? I think your mother is in the night market. They're all great but nobody can compare to south America when it comes to flair let alone the forefathers of it. And then Cruyff is Cruyff in philosophy and intelligence. You should be crusified fir comparing them. Long story short don't be an ignorant uncultured dvmbarse.

Zidane

@@myhatmygandhi6217 Zidane has been extremely successful but doesn’t even come close in comparison to Cruyff when it comes to influence and importance on tactics

Not every great player can be a coach. Maradona inspired a whole generation of people across the world. So, his contribution to the game is also everlasting apart from his godly skills. You feel goosebumps seeing the reverence people of Napoli have for Maradona. So, different players can contribute in different ways.

+J.A. Brown he invented his own schools the johan cruijff foundations. where young pro players can study and coaches can study their train/coaching courses

Harry DeRemmit I know, I wish he himself would teach at those schools. :p

he is a tactical genius that is for sure, but in amsterdam people are not to keen about him. Advisor for Ajax Amsterdam and Edgar Davids says how can you advise a club when your never in Amsterdam, but in Barcelona that is hard to communicate just over the phone

And the thing is Wim Jonk was coaching the youth of Ajax. Cruijff saying there is alot of things going wrong in the youth. both Wim Jonk and Jaap Stam training the youth say we have seen and spoke to Cruijff like 1 time in a half year since then he haven't set foot on the ajax youth facilities so how does he know something is wrong

+Harry DeRemmit Barcelona always valued more his work, that's why he was more in Barcelona.

+leerobbo92 4 clubs play that way: Barca, Bayern, Juventus and Fiorentina

La Masia is a copy of De Toekomst. Ajax youth facilities. I miss him much.

I think you're right. I also think that he's the most influential player ever in terms of the impact he's had internationally, esp Spain and the Netherlands. In fact the Dutch regard him as their equivalent of the Beatles, such was his cultural impact.

Ron Ghoul Could you explain what's this "uno momento dado" about? Does it have something to do with: "Give me one moment/minute"?

+Ron Ghoul Unfortunatly to some weird thugs who kidnapped him and his family to demand that he should not play a world cup with the Netherlands after that he never was his old self again kind of, I think that led him to his heart problems wich ment less managing

Where's ronaldo (7 & 9) Beckham hierro puyol Terry

Rather than CR7 I have 🎩, the 🐐 and for the Phenom R9 I rather play with the lethal 🧞‍♂️ of the area. Beckham for whom?? 🤭😆😂😂

Pedro Galiano Great team. Though I would change Cafu for Lahm for sure. Lahm was the best at defense and recomposition , (no needed for Daniel Alves in this team)

Jovani Gentle Beckham was very overrated

who the fuck is aldair?

Lots of lines for penetration

I prefer the 1-1-8 as played by rb Leipzig

@GeeFunk MasterFlex was that the first, second or third time he won the premier League?

I love the Craig Levin formation for scotland 4-6-0 so ahead of his time... said no one ever

I like to go 1-0 up and then play all 11 men on the goal line, hugging the posts and cross bar - plugging every gap, so it’s impossible to equalise

well madrid is a royal family team .. they can bought the legends ,, if barca have the power and the money of madrid that's another story

adil DCUO well when real madrid won 6 european cups in the 60s spain didnt have monarchy, only in november 1975 the monarchy is re established. so your information is wrong

+Alejandro Riera They had Franco, you know that Real biggest legent Alfredo Di Stefano singed for Barca, but they didnt let that happen and took him, and it was forbidden for Barca to get best players, if they did they would have been killed

Alejandro Riera You liking your own comment? how filthy haha!

+1052Corli Agreed in a way, franco always helped madrid but didnt kill someone for playing for barcelona. he killed people for politics not for football. but Franco died in 1975 and Barcelona won their first important trophy in 1992 with Cruyff as a manager. dont know why with Cryuff as a player couldnt win the European cup, and he was there 5 years...

Guardiola just used the inverted fullbacks for Cancelo and Walker against West Ham today.

Pep has said he owns basically all his football knowledge to Cruyff, that in difficult situations he always thinks ‘What would Cruyff do’ and when asked by a journalist: ‘how much of Cruyff is there in this City team’, Pep replied smiling and said ‘you honestly have no idea, so much’ JC is a pioneer

Çağdaş Turgut lol me to

The others didn't understand him and tried to ridicule him...

+AMchou There was another old player at that table Jan Mulder (where cruijff said we played together in the same diamond) that is the Father of Yuri Mulder ex-schalke 04 player, he also knows a thing or two about football. Allthough the son Yuri Mulder wasen't as great as his father

Too bad it didn't win, football nowadays is more horrible than ever.

@@user_____M what do you mean we get to see legends like Ronaldo and Messi play the beautiful game

Now he would be proud😉

in reality its run to the edge of the area and R1 + O and inshallah

Ethan Fanning lol tru

Lol

Nope those players don't follow instructions

Tony Gunk yeah for some reason one of my centre backs goes up and acts like a clown