HENDRICKJOHANNES CRUIFF.

This famous footballer is known the world over as just Johan Cruiff.He was born on25/ 4/1974.His age is 61 years old. He played for two main clubs Ajax Amsterdam and F.C. Barcelona in Spain. With Ajax he played a total of 240 games and scored 190 goals. And with Barcelona he played a total of 143 games and scored 48 goals. And for Holland he played 48 games and scored 33 goals. He also coached Ajax from 1986 to 1988. He coached Barcelona from 1988 to 1996.
At Barcelona at the NOU CAMP he is refered to as the EL SALVADOR or THE SAVIOUR.
He won no less then twelve trophies for the club . With players such as Zubi Zerata , Ronald Koeman, Nadal, Amor, Romario, Stoichkov, Bakero, Guadiola and many others the Real Madrid hold on cupsin Spain was halted for a while.
Cruiff openly said that he chose Barcelona over Real Madrid as he could not play for a club associated withGeneral Franco. Barca fans liked him all the more as he gave a catalian name to his son JODI CRUIFF who later played for Barcelona and also Manchester United.
In his last year Cruiff had to undergo a double bypass surgery, allbecause he was achain smoker and smoked twenty to thirty cigerattes a day. He said (football gave me everything but cigarettes almost took it all away) He is a campainer against tobacco products. He is now a chain chupa chup lolipop sucker it is a Spanish lolipop.
HIS PLAYING DAYS.
He joined Ajax on his tenth birthday, and after that there was no looking back for Cruiff,
In 1972 Ajax beat Intermilan 2-0, with Cruiff scoring both the goals. In 1973 Ajax beat Juventus to win the champion league., as well. In 1973 Cruiff was sold by Ajax to Barcelona for a sum of six million Dutch guilders or two million dollars. The first time a player was sold for over a million dollars. It was at Barcelona he scored a famous goal against Atletico Madrid . Cruiff leapt in the air facing the opposite side of the goal and kicked it with the right heel scoring a goal it is called till today as the Phantom goal or the Imposible goal.
Johan Cruiff has won the Europen footballer of the year in 1971, 1973 and 1974. which is a record held jointly by Marco Van Basten and Michel Platini.
In 1999 Cruiff was voted as the Europen player of the century, and he comes second as the world player of the century behind Pele