Is Cruyff the best manager?

Cruyff was a proponent of the football philosophy known as Total Football explored by Rinus Michels, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport, and one of the best managers ever.

Was Cruyff the best ever?

As a player, Cruyff is the among the very best of all time. At Ajax he won 17 major trophies, including three consecutive European Cups. Individually, he collected three Ballon d’Or awards, the last in 1974 as he starred for the Netherlands at summer’s World Cup when the ‘Total Football’ born in Amsterdam went global.

Did Johan Cruyff coach Pep?

To Pep Guardiola, Johan Cruyff represented everything he wanted to be as a coach and a manager and he would become a devoted student of Cruyff’s, eventually graduating with honours.

Did Johan Cruyff invent soccer?

An obituary for Johan Cruyff, who invented modern soccer.

What is Johan Cruyff philosophy?

Cruyff was not simply a purist – his number-one priority, as with any coach at the elite level, was always to win. But he believed the best way to secure victory was through an offensive style of play through which his teams would do everything possible to dominate every game they played.

What did Cruyff say about Ronaldo?

Johan Cruyff “Cristiano Ronaldo is better than George Best and Denis Law, who were two brilliant and great players in the history of United.”

Is Pep Guardiola a Chequebook manager?

Clearly a chequebook manager. Only attempts to balance the books are by selling youngsters for 5-10m as Pep deems most of them not good enough and he won’t spend time coaching them. Every single player starting today has been bought.

Who taught Guardiola?

At the age of 32 and during a difficult season with Roma, Guardiola was told by Argentina international Gabriel Batistuta ‘if you want to be a coach, you have to get together with this guy’. The ‘guy’ in person was none other than Bielsa, yet it took the Spaniard three more years to finally meet him.

Who taught Johan Cruyff?

Though Cruyff’s mentor, Rinus Michels, (voted FIFA’s Coach of the Century in 1999, he guided Ajax to four Eredivisie titles in the 1960s and the Netherlands to the 1988 European Championship) was the brains behind the game-changing style of “Total Football,” Cruyff personified it.